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  • "Emma in name onelie queene to hir sons Edward and Alfred sendeth motherlie greeting.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

  • I in verie deede, receuied the relations concerning the deedes of the Tartars onelie, (which, according to the congruence of times, I haue aboue inserted into this my woorke) from a Frier Minorite called Simon de Sanct.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • I in verie deede, receuied the relations concerning the deedes of the Tartars onelie, (which, according to the congruence of times, I haue aboue inserted into this my woorke) from a Frier Minorite called Simon de Sanct.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Heauen had onelie lent him but one hart, That hart one thought, that thought no feare of smart.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • But I speake to this purpose, that all the ende of the Comicall part, bee not uppon suche scornefull matters as stirre laughter onelie, but mixe with it, that delightfull teaching whiche is the ende of Poesie.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • The incomparable Lacedemonians, did not onelie carrie that kinde of Musicke ever with them to the field, but even at home, as such songs were made, so were they all content to be singers of them: when the lustie men were to tell what they did, the old men what they had done, and the yoong what they would doo.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • "That nather had we querrall against any man nather yit sought we any manis bloode; onelie we war conveaned for defence of our awin lyves injustlie sought by uther."

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • But this shall aggravat your damnatioun; for ye declair your selfis boith traytouris to the treuth ones professed, and murtheraris of us, and of your bretherin, from whome ye draw your detfull and promisshed support, whome your onelie presence (to manis judgement) myght preserve from this danger.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Faith perteaneth to God onelie: Hope to his reward, and

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Bischopis, as ye all weall aneuch know: How long I continewed prisoneir, what torment I susteaned in the galaies, and what war the sobbes of my harte, is now no tyme to receat: This onelie I can nocht conceall, whiche mo than one have hard me say, when the body was far absent from

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

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