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YE shall now wit that there be twelue maner of impedymentes whiche cause a man to take no fysshe, without other comyn that may casually hap.
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Tenne or twelue housholds are accompted for one fire, and so pay tribute but for one fire onely.
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Pasnepes, and Gardein Thistles (whiche we calle Hortichokes) as also of their Fenelle, to be twelue Cubites compasse.
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The Aegiptians firste of all other, deuised the names of the twelue Goddes, builte vp Altares, and Images, erected Chappelles and Temples, and graued in stone the similitude of many sondrie beastes.
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In it there is great plenty of all victuals, and especially of chesnuts, and it is one of the twelue prouinces of the great Can.
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Neuer in all my life did I see so great a citie; for it conteineth in circuit an hundreth miles: neither sawe I any plot thereof, which was not throughly inhabited: yea, I sawe many houses of tenne or twelue stories high, one aboue another.
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Tanais4 dischargeth his streames into the sea of Pontus, the mouth whereof is twelue miles in breadth.
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Also it hath twelue principall gates: and about the distance of eight miles, in the high way vnto euery one of the saide gates standeth a city as big by estimation as Venice, and
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The citie of Caido hath twelue gates, being each of them two miles distant from another.
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The foresayd great Can hath diuided his Empire into twelue partes or Prouinces, and one of the sayd prouinces hath two thousand great cities within the precincts thereof.
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