Chapter VII

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

(followed by “to”) in agreement with or accordant with

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

later than; following

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

in addition

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the form of “be” used with “I”

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

plural of “aspect” — a distinct feature or element in a problem

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

enter or assume a certain state or condition

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

become of; happen to

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

inflected form of “begin” — take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the supreme effort one can make

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

the formal act of approving

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

plural of “branch” — a division of some larger or more complex organization

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature

From this reading TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

to be able to, or to be allowed to

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

plural of “chase” — the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

plural of “disaster” — a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

plural of “doubt” — the state of being unsure of something

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

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From this reading TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c.

either extremity of something that has length

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a feeling of favorable regard

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

set up or found

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

plural of “friend” — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

-ing form of “gain” — obtain

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ _Your Honours_ _truest Honourer_, GEO: WITHER.

in a willing manner

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a person who keeps watch over something or someone

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

the -ing form of “have”

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level

From this reading TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c.

not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent

From this reading TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ _Your Honours_ _truest Honourer_, GEO: WITHER.

a university degree with honors

From this reading _Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ _Your Honours_ _truest Honourer_, GEO: WITHER.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

engage in

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

plural of “merit” — any admirable quality or attribute

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used to say something is possible but not certain

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used to form the superlative

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

to a great degree or extent

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

not any; not one

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

impressive in appearance

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

superlative of “noble” — impressive in appearance

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

not one thing; not anything

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c.

many times at short intervals

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

third-person singular of “park” — place temporarily

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

plural of “person” — a human being

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

-ing form of “possess” — have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ _Your Honours_ _truest Honourer_, GEO: WITHER.

make a promise or commitment

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

on the contrary

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the ability to recall past occurrences

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

restored to a new condition

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

precisely, exactly

From this reading TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

being the one previously mentioned or spoken of

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

plural of “seed” — a small hard fruit

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

term of address for a man

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a thing, without saying which

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

that is looked for

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

express in words

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

From this reading _Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ _Your Honours_ _truest Honourer_, GEO: WITHER.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, _HENRIE_, Earle of HOLLAND, &c.

to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

a river in central England that flows generally northeastward to join with the Ouse River and form the Humber

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

superlative of “true” — consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading _Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ _Your Honours_ _truest Honourer_, GEO: WITHER.

make an effort or attempt

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

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From this reading _Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ _Your Honours_ _truest Honourer_, GEO: WITHER.

plural of “virtue” — the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

(used informally) very small

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

in or at the place that

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

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From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

during the time that

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

which person or people

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

belonging to which person

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

in the company of; together with

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

wither, as with a loss of moisture

From this reading _Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ _Your Honours_ _truest Honourer_, GEO: WITHER.

inside; before a period of time has passed

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value

From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

an old form of “would”, used with “thou”

From this reading _Captaine of the =Guard=; _Lord-chiefe-Iustice_ in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests, Parkes and Chases =on this side= Trent; =Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and one of his Majesties most Honourable= Privie Counsell._ _Right Noble SIR_, _Having, of late, some =Cause=, to overlooke That thankfull =Register=, wherein I booke My noblest =Friends=; I found so many =Names= Possessing nothing, but their honour’d =Fames=, (Whose =living Persons=, wee injoyed, here, A while agoe;) that, I began to feare, I might grow =Friendlesse=; (having now so few) Vnlesse I sought, their =Number= to renew._ _By some =Disasters=, also, gaining proofe, How much this =Course= would make for my behoofe; I call’d my =Wits= to =Counsell=, =Where=, and HOW I might, with hopefulnesse, begin to sow The seeds of such =a Blessing=: And, me thought =Within mee=, something said: =Where should be sought What thou so gladly wouldst renewed finde, But, from some BRANCHES of the selfe-same kinde; Whose faire Aspects may seeme to promise fruit, According to the Virtues of the= Roote?_ _Assoone as Fancie had inform’d me so, Your =Lordship=, came to my remembrance, too, With what our =Soveraigne’s= Favour, =Vulgar Fame=, Or, your owne =Merits=, addeth to your =Name=.

but in spite of that

From this reading For, I have oft observ’d, that, =Favour= shunnes The best =Desert=, if after =her=, it runnes._ _Yet_, who can tell what may befall? thought I: It is no great _Adventure_, if I try Without successe: And, if, I gaine my _End_, I am assured of a _Noble-Friend_.

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading _Thus, unfainedly, professeth_ _Your Honours_ _truest Honourer_, GEO: WITHER.

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From this reading Which, having weigh’d, no doubts at all I had Of =Worth= in =Yov=; But, rather, doubtings made That, all my =Wits= would insufficient be, To make that =Worth=, become a =Friend= to mee.