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Wherefore, if a disease happen in those dayes, we feare not to open a veyne divers times, and often, as also to prescribe more strong purging medicines.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
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Thee reddyest way, therefore, too flap theese droanes from the sweete senting hiues of Poëtrye, is for thee learned too applye theym selues wholye (yf they be delighted wyth that veyne) too thee true making of verses in such wise as thee
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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Morr: nay & you feede this veyne Sr, fare you well.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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Morr: nay z you feede this veyne Sr, fare you well.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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- 43a - skill in matter of more dignitie, then is the homely Æglogue, good occasion is him offered of higher veyne and more Heroicall argument, in the person of our most gratious soueraign, whom (as before) he calleth Elisa.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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