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You would think he had the Indian mines, for he tells of the fesse [EA] of gold and silver, but believe him not for they are but devises to get money: he seemes only to deale with Gentry, but his chiefest purchases are on them that are none, whose bounty he conceales yet blazons: his bribes are like those of a corrupt judge, for they are the prizes [EB] of blood.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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I finde now that hee begins to play her parte, & if I mistake not, you will see him as greatly in loue with her (if shee will but hold of a little) as euer shee was with him; but he conceales it what he can as yett.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Lastly, her Dreames are so chaste, that shee dare tell them; onely a Fridaies Dreame is all her Superstition; _that_ she conceales for feare of Anger.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) Henry Gally 1732
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I finde that [s] hee begins now to play her parte, &, if I mistake not, you will see him as greatly in loue with her (if shee will but hold of a little) as euer shee was with him; but hee conceales it what hee can as yett.
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