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Diuers of them throwe their dead into Riuers, other cofer them vp in earthen cofres, some enclose them in glasse, and kepe them in their houses a yeare, and in the meane season worship them deuoutly, and offre vnto them the first of all their encreace.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

Virgil -- they go to Bethlehem and present to the Child a "lytyll spruse cofer," a ball, and a gourd-bottle.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

_Homer_ were holden with _Alexander_ the great, in so much as euery night they were layd vnder his pillow, and by day were carried in the rich iewell cofer of _Darius_ lately before vanquished by him in battaile.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Item, sold to Robert Doryngton, old boke, and a cofer in the library ... .. ijs.

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911

Diuers of them throwe their dead into Riuers, other cofer them vp in earthen cofres, some enclose them in glasse, and kepe them in their houses a yeare, and in the meane season worship them deuoutly, and offre vnto them the first of all their encreace.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584

In what price the noble poemes of Homer were holden with Alexander the great, in so much as euery night they were layd vnder his pillow, and by day were carried in the rich iewell cofer of Darius lately before vanquished by him in battaile.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

At the last we were brought agayne in to the reuettry, there was taken out a cofer couered with blacke lether, it was sett downe apon the table, it was sett open, by and by euery body kneled downe and worshipyd.

The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

_] Long time after the death of this damsell, in the said abbeie was shewed a cofer, that sometimes was hirs, of the length of two foot, in the which appeared giants fighting, startling of beasts, swimming of fishes, and flieng of foules, so liuelie, that a man might woonder at the fine deuise thereof.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

i have two great local photographers (suzanne cofer and bryon miller) that will be snapping folks holding the signs - we provide the materials, you provide the ideas!!!!

Cleveland Scene 2009