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Mid þine cleures woldest me meysse. þe were i {} cundere to one frogge.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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If eyther in battell or shypwracke a man by hys valiantnes had saued the, woldest thou not worshyp hym as God, and saye thou were neuer able to make hym amendes?
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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And this we know for suyrtie, that when thow preached in Dundye, and was charged be my Lord Governouris authoritie to desist, nevertheles thow woldest not obey, but persevered in the same.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Mid þine cliures woldest me meshe. þe were icundur to one frogge.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Yf [thou] entende to please god & woldest obteyne grace to fulfyll the same two thyng [es] ben to the necessary.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Swulc thu woldest to hævene · nu thu scalt to hælle;
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The rewll of charitie is to doo as thow woldest wer done unto thee: for charitie esteameth all alyke; [66] the riche and the poore; the friend and the foe; the thankfull and the unthankfull; the kynnesman and stranger.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Fynallie, he hath delivered thee from thye condemnatioun, and desyrith nought of thee, but that thow shouldest acknowledge what he hath done for thee, and bear it in mynd; and that thow woldest helpe other for his saik, boith in worde and deid, evin as he hath helped thee for nought, and without reward.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Also whan [thou] hast ony thynge that pleaseth the/or elles that [thou] desyrest to haue/thynke & yf thou were in paradyse [thou] sholdest haue it & all other thynges that thou woldest desyre.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Now saye, English captaine, what woldest thou give
Mary Ambree 1910
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