Chapter VIII

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

surrounded by; in the middle of a group

From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

one more of the same kind, or a different one

From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

the two together, not just one

From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

showing who or what does the action

From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

to be able to, or to be allowed to

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading For by all these meanes God placeth his deputies.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

an old form of “does”

From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

one or the other of two

From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

Strictly particular and correct.

From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

acting without enough restraint or discipline

From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

an old form of “has”

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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

From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading For by all these meanes God placeth his deputies.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

not any; not one

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

and not; used after a negative to add a second negative

From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading For by all these meanes God placeth his deputies.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest

From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

for that reason; as a result

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading For by all these meanes God placeth his deputies.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

used to ask for information about something

From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “Well,” sayd another, “the matter is notable to teach al people, as well officers as subiects, to consider their estates, and to liue in loue and obedience to the highest powers, whatsoeuer they bee, whome God either by birth, law, succession, or vniuersall election, doth or shall aucthorise in his owne roume to execute his lawes and iustice among any people or nation.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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From this reading And in my iudgement there is no meane so good eyther for the common quiet of the people, or for God’s free choise, as the naturall order of enheritaunce by lineall discent: for so it is left in God’s handes, to creat in the wombe what prince hee thinketh meetest for his purposes: the people also knowe their princes, and therefore the more gladly and willingly receiue and obay them.

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

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”

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From this reading “The author him selfe,” quoth[1866] I, “could haue done that, but hee would not, and hath desired me that it may passe in such rude sort as you haue heard it: for hee obserueth therein a double decorum both of the Smith, and of himselfe: for hee thinketh it not meete for the Smith to speake, nor for himselfe to write in any exact kinde of meeter.”

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading [And] at my request admonishe thou all men, To spend well the talent[1861] which God [to them] hath lent, [And] hee that hath [but] one, let him not toile for ten, For one is[1862] too much, vnlesse it bee well spent: I haue had the proofe, therefore I now repent, And happy are those men, and blist and blist is hee, As can bee well content to serue in his degree.[1863] Maister Cauyll.[1864] [“It is pity,” quoth[1865] one, “that the meeter is no better, seeing the matter is so good: you may do very well to helpe it, and a lytle filing would make it formal.”