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In closing, which council candidates will face the wrate of "HIS POLLONESS" and "MISTRESS OF LABOR" Maria Elena Durazo, on support the efforts of the business community in repealing this law ?
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The Anthemes (which Ambrose, Bysshoppe of Millayne wrate, and endited) Damasus put ordre that the quiere should sing side aftre side, and added to euery psalmes ende.
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But the aunciente Philosophers, whiche without knowledge of God, and his truthe, many yeres ago, wrate vpon the natures of thinges, and thistories of times had another opinion of the originall of man.
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The tenne commaundementes, which God wrate with his owne finger, and gaue vnto the Israelites by Moses, whiche thapostles willed vs also to kiepe.
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Whereas this word _raigne_ is ill applied to the bewtie of a womans haire, and might better haue bene spoken of her whole person, in which bewtie, fauour, and good grace, may perhaps in some sort be said to raigne as our selues wrate, in a _Partheniade_ praising her Maiesties countenance, thus:
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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_Lydgat_ a translatour onely and no deuiser of that which he wrate, but one that wrate in good verse.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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_Caldius Biberius Mero_, in steade of _Claudius Tiberius Nero_: and so a iesting frier that wrate against _Erasmus_, called him by resemblance to his own _Errans mus_, and are mainteined by this figure _Prosonomasia_, or the Nicknamer.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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But the principall man in this profession at the same time was Maister _Edward Ferrys_ a man of no lesse mirth & felicitie that way, but of much more skil, & magnificence in this meeter, and therefore wrate for the most part to the stage, in Tragedie and sometimes in Comedie or Enterlude, wherein he gaue the king so much good recreation, as he had thereby many good rewardes.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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_Caesar_ the Dictator vpon the victorie hee obteined against _Pharnax_ king of _Bithinia_ shewing the celeritie of his conquest, wrate home to the Senate in this tenour of speach no lesse swift and speedy then his victorie.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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For so in deede is a house pulled downe by circumstances, which this figure of distribution doth set forth euery one apart, and therefore I name him the _distributor_ according to his originall, as wrate the _Tuscane_ Poet in a Sonet which Sir _Thomas Wyat_ translated with very good grace, thus.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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