Publications of the University of Pennsylvania: Series in philology, literature and archeology, Zväzok 4,Vydanie 2

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1895
 

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Strana 71 - Five Hundred Points of good Husbandry, as well for the champion or open country, as for the woodland or several; together with a Book of Huswifery.
Strana 82 - ... give them grace also to consider, that they are but strangers and pilgrims in this world, having here no...
Strana 82 - ... but seeking one to come : that they, remembering the short continuance of their life, may be content with that that is sufficient, and not join house to house, nor couple land to land, to the impovershment of other, but so behave themselves in letting out their tenements, lands, and pastures, that after this life they may be received into everlasting dwelling places : through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Strana 88 - ... and invented ways and means how they might accumulate and gather together into few hands, as well great multitude of farms as great plenty of cattle, and in especial sheep...
Strana 21 - I) your shepe that were wont to be so meke and tame, and so smal eaters, now, as I heare saye, be become so great devowerers and so wylde, that they eate up, and swallow downe the very men them selfes. They consume, destroye, and devoure whole fieldes, howses, and cities.
Strana 25 - ... dearest woll, there noblemen and gentlemen: yea and certeyn A.bbottes, holy men no doubt, not contenting them selfes with the yearely revenues and profytes, that were wont to grow to theyr forefathers and predecessours of their landes, nor beynge content that they...
Strana 46 - Where he that now hath it, payeth 16/. by the year, or more, and is not able to do any thing for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.
Strana 26 - ... thei be so weried, that they be compelled to sell all : by one meanes therfore or by other, either by hooke or crooke they must...
Strana 11 - Such climb to heaven before the shaven crowns : But how? forsooth with true humility. Not that they hoard their grain when it is cheap, Nor that they kill the calf to have the milk, Nor that they set debate between their lords, By earing up the balks that part their bounds...
Strana 41 - Where there were in few years ten or twelve thousand people, there be now scarce four thousand ; where there were a thousand, now scarce three hundred, and in many places, where there were very many able to defend our country from landing of our enemies, now almost none. Sheep and cattle that were ordained to be eaten of men, hath eaten up the men. * * The places where poor men dwelt, clearly destroyed; lands emproved to so great rents, or so excessive fines taken, that the poor husbandmen cannot...

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