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- noun Plural form of
wille .
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Wherefore, if we would walke directly, wee should dispose our willes and affections, to be guided onely by him, who best knoweth what is needfull for us, and will bestow them at his good pleasure.
The Decameron 2004
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And these dead bodies are the Mummie which the Phisitians and Apothecaries doe against our willes make vs to swallow.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Windes wee haue had at will, but ice and fogge too much against our willes, if it had pleased the Lod God otherwise.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And to that ende I haue giuen order to all our authorised peopie to bee careful ouer them, and to defende them in all causes, and to giue them free libertie to trafficke at their owne willes and pleasures.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I haue expressely giuen order, that there shall be no such course vsed to enforce them, but to buy according to their owne willes, and to tarrie at the port or to depart at their pleasure.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Rodenburgh with one of the Portingalles slaues, being on lande were against their willes led before the King, but the saylors of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sweden: such is the simplicitie of this people the Lappies, that they would rather giue tribute to all those that border vpon their countrey, then by denying it haue their ill willes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Herewith the capteins and tribunes discoursing the like, pricked forward the earnest willes which their souldiers had to fight.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed
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For after his deceasse, diuerse of them (as it were promising to themselues a new libertie to doo that which in his life time they were constreined sore against their willes to forbeare) deceiued themselues by their hastie dealing.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I. Raphael Holinshed
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