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I do vvrong if I should forget the good example of the Generall at this place, vvho to encourage others, and to hasten the getting of fresh vvater aboord the ships, tooke no lesse paine him selfe then the meanest, as also at S. DOMINGO, CARTAGENA, and all other places, hauing alvvaies so vigilant a care and foresight in the good ordering of his
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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Melendez Marquesse, Nephevv to that Melendez the Admirall, vvho had ouerthrovven Maister Iohn Havvkins in the Bay of MEXICO some fifteene or sixteene yeares agoe.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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With some other, vvho for hast I can not so suddenly thinke on.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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And I remained still with my companion _Thelemia_, vvho with a flattering and smyling grace said vnto me, _Poliphilus_, this is the place where thou shalt not continue long, but thou shalt finde the deerest thing which thou louest in the world, & which thou hast in thy hart, without intermission determined to seeke and desire.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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There vvas in it thirteene or fourteene greate peeces of brasse ordinance, and a chest vnbroken vp, hauing in it the value of some two thousande poundes sterling, by estimation of the kinges treasure, to pay the souldiers of that place vvho vvere a hundred and fiftie men.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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Somevvhat after midnight they vvho had the garde of the Castle, hearing vs busie about the gates of the saide Castle, abandoned the same: some being taken prisoners, and some flying away by the help of boates, to the other side of the hauen, & so into the country.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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We deuided our vvhole force, being some thousand or tvvelue hundred men into tvvo partes, to enterprise both the gates at one instant, the Lieftenant Generall hauing openly vovved to Captaine Povvell (vvho led the troope that entered the other gate) that vvith Gods good fauour he vvould not rest vntill our meeting in the market place.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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In this furious entrie, the Lieutenant generall slue vvith his ovvne hands, the chiefe Ensigne bearer of the Spaniards, vvho fought verie manfullie to his liues end.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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Thence he went to Rome, and on account of his poverty engaged himself to Cesare d'Arpino, vvho employed him to execute the floral and ornamental parts of his pictures.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Then the Cross appears is the air as a point of ineffable consolation, and some of the Plants demand judgment from the Cedar, vvho gives it to the Spikenard in consequence of his superior humility.
The pin-basket to the children of Thespis. With notes historical, critical, and biographical 1797
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