lambe

Neuer, a tender lambe shall want, with blood to bedew them.

Poems and Fragments 2006

When they chance to come at any bad passage, they let them loose, and guide them ouer one by one: for they goe a slowe pace, as fast as a lambe or an oxe can walke.

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

When they chance to come at any bad passage, they let them loose, and guide them ouer one by one: for they goe a slowe pace, as fast as a lambe or an oxe can walke.

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

The other is of Nathan the Prophet {74}, who when the holy David, had so farre forsaken God, as to confirme Adulterie with murther, when he was to do the tendrest office of a friend, in laying his owne shame before his eyes; sent by God to call againe so chosen a servant, how doth he it? but by telling of a man whose beloved lambe was ungratefully taken from his bosome.

Defence of Poesie 1992

Receyue mercyfull Ihesu this hyghe & holy sacryfyce to the comfort of all [that] ben on lyue & deed/& wouchesauf this daye [that] it be to vs & to all them a synguler refresshynge & feest/that we so releued [with] this brede of lyue & lambe Inmaculate/borne of the blessyd virgyn Mary may Ioye in thy laude & glorye eternally.

A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson

I will by and by, when I go to the next market fetch mine irons and tooles for the purpose: And I ensure you after that I have gelded and cut off his stones, I will deliver him unto you as tame as a lambe.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

And when these armed campionis, marching in warlyk ordour, had conveyed the Bischoppis unto the Abbay Church, incontinentlye thei sent for Maistor George, who was conveyed unto the said churche by the Capitane of the Castell, and the nomber of ane hundreth men, addressed in maner foirsaid, lyik a lambe led thei him to sacrifice.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Keranus eius pascua sic discriminauit atque distinxit, ut tantum uitulum mater lambe [re] t, nec tamen ei ubera praeberet.

The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints Anonymous

When all this was done and said, my Lord Cardinall caused his tormentares [428] to pas agane with the meke lambe unto the Castell, untill such tyme the fyre was maid reddy.

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God, who suspecting no such crueltie as in thair hartes was concluded, remaned still, (a lambe amonges the wolfis,) till that upoun a nycht hie was intercepted in his chalmer, and by the bischoppes band was caryed to the Castell, whare that nycht he was keapt; and upoun the morne, produccid in judgement, he was condampned to dye by fyre for the testimonye of Goddis trewth.

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