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Declaring, that notwithstanding the frownes of fortune, diversity of occurrences, and contrary accidents happening: Yet love and friendship ought to be preciously preserved among men
The Decameron 2004
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Declaring, that notwithstanding the frownes of fortune, diversity of occurrences, and contrary accidents happening: Yet love and friendship ought to be preciously preserved among men
The Decameron 2004
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From temperate and calme speeches, they fell to frownes and ruder Language, which heated their blood in such violent manner, that forgetting brotherly affection, and all respect of Parents or
The Decameron 2004
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Madame, in my poore opinion, you are not free from the frownes of Fortune, no more then I my selfe am: but if you were so well pleased, there is no one that can comfort both our calamities in such manner, as you are able to do.
The Decameron 2004
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Your frownes can neither make me mourne, nor fauors make me glad.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Fulle ylle I canne thie frownes & harde dyspleasaunce brooke.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Whose smiles, or frownes, are but the bare reflexio
Davids Hainous Sinne, Heartie Repentance, Heavie Punishment. 1608-1661 1869
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But canst yu not tell in faith Diccon, why she frownes or wher at
Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575
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Your frownes can neither make me mourne, nor fauors make me glad.
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2499: He showes a Lover, when he frownes, a Souldier:
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