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Moal, who were a poore and beggerly nation, without gouernour, and without Lawe, except their soothsayings, and their diuinations, vnto the which detestable studies, all in those partes doe apply their mindes.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Moal, who were a poore and beggerly nation, without gouernour, and without Lawe, except their soothsayings, and their diuinations, vnto the which detestable studies, all in those partes doe apply their mindes.

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

There is a certaine trade of merchandise there vsed, but as yet so small and beggerly, that it is not woorth the making mention, and yet there come merchants thither from diuers places.

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

For the first, euen the beggerly and vnnaturall behauiour of those English and Irish rebels, that serued the King in that present action, was sufficient to answere that first argument of rich pay.

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

For so poore and beggerly they were, as for want of apparell they stripped their poore Countrey men prisoners out of their ragged garments, worne to nothing by sixe months seruice, and spared not to despoyle them euen of their bloody shirtes, from their wounded bodies, and the very shooes from their feete; A notable testimonie of their rich entertainment and great wages.

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

For what is it to make folkes gape at a wretched begger, and a beggerly Clowne: or against lawe of hospitalitie, to jeast at straungers, because they speake not English so well as we do?

Defence of Poesie 1992

For that the bankets of _Sicilia_ be in respect but beggerly, and so were the stately Ornaments of _Attalus_.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

As wel of ruflyng Vacabondes, as of beggerly, of women as of men, of gyrles as of boyes, with their proper names and qualities.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Therefore we say that it might become king _Alexander_ to giue a hundreth talentes to _Anaxagoras_ the Philosopher, but not for a beggerly Philosopher to accept so great a gift, for such a Prince could not be impouerished by that expence, but the

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Yea, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion or beggerly conquest of a distinction!

Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923