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In a time of delivering from death, he has made a vow to bring thank offerings to the Lord for ever and ever, he has made a vow to bring thank offerings to the Lord (maybe during his time as shepheard in the dessert, when he encountered lions and bears).
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And in a certaine plane countrey within those Alpes, there inhabited a Nestorian shepheard, being a mighty gouernour ouer the people called Yayman, which were Christians, following the sect of Nestorius.
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This Iohn had a brother, being a mightie man also, and a shepheard like himselfe, called Vut, and be inhabited beyond the Alpes of Cara Catay, being distant from his brother Iohn, the space of three weekes iourney.
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Then sith it is so appointed that there shal be one shepheard and one flocke, what hindreth vs of England,
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Then sith it is so appointed that there shal be one shepheard and one flocke, what hindreth vs of England,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Then sith it is so appointed that there shal be one shepheard and one flocke, what hindreth vs of England,
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And in a certaine plane countrey within those Alpes, there inhabited a Nestorian shepheard, being a mighty gouernour ouer the people called Yayman, which were Christians, following the sect of Nestorius.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This Iohn had a brother, being a mightie man also, and a shepheard like himselfe, called Vut, and be inhabited beyond the Alpes of Cara Catay, being distant from his brother Iohn, the space of three weekes iourney.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now because the actions of meane & base personages, tend in very few cases to any great good example: for who passeth to follow the steps, and maner of life of a craftes man, shepheard or sailer, though he were his father or dearest frend? yea how almost is it possible that such maner of men should be of any vertue other then their profession requireth?
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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And all this may be true, for before there was a shepheard keeper of his owne, or of some other bodies flocke, there was none owner in the world, quick cattel being the first property of any forreine possession.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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