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For a Schisme/is a stryfe which risith vppon diuersitie of sentẽces.
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Neapolitans, we rehearse also what wer the causes of theyr stryfe, who was the setter forward, and what was the occasion of the warre, what hope and truste eyther of them had to the victorye.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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Shakespeare did not take this talke in good sorte; but Jonson put an end to the stryfe with wittielie saying: 'This affaire needeth no contentione; you stole it from Ned, no doubt; do not marvel; have you not seen him act tymes out of number?'
Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892
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Quha with this warld dois warsill and stryfe, {91c}
Playful Poems Henry Morley 1858
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4.5.19: Twixt nature, & Pygmalion, there might appeare great stryfe.
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a great folysshe babler/and ryght foule mouthed/and ful of debate and stryfe/car - rynge alwayes agaynste the heddes and wyse men of the armye.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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