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It contains a long poem called The towre of vertue and honour, which is really a highly-wrought elegy on the premature and glorious death, not of "the Duke of Norfolk, Lord High admiral, and one of
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489
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Besides these riuers, are also in Muscouie certaine lakes, and pooles, the lakes breede fish by the celestiall influence: and amongst them all, the chiefest and most principall is called Bealozera, which is very famous by reason of a very strong towre built in it, wherein the kings of Muscouie reserue and repose their treasure in all times of warre and danger.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_ J towre ye strummell tryne vpon thy nabcher & togman.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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He knows the lark: but the larks watch-towrehe had never thought of that: and the dappled dawnyes thats just it, now he comes to think: Then to come, in spite of sorrow,
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He knows the lark: but the lark's 'watch-towre' -- he had never thought of that: and 'the dappled dawn'-yes that's just _it, _ now he comes to think:
On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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I went up to Jane Shore's towre, and there W. Howe and I sang, and so took my wife and walked home, and so to bed.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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I went up to Jane Shore's towre, and there W. Howe and I sang, and so took my wife and walked home, and so to bed.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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I went up to Jane Shore's towre, and there W. Howe and I sang, and so took my wife and walked home, and so to bed.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Faddle cries to her maid, 'run to my milliner's for my gloves and essences ... run for my new towre.'
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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I went up to Jane Shore's towre, and there W. Howe and I sang, and so took my wife and walked home, and so to bed.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jun/Jul/Aug 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661
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