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"ref": "1845, Mrs. Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745.",
"text": "Since this then is plainly the case, there can be no choise in dying honourably in the field for so just a cause, or leving to see the ruin and intire destruction of our country, our King, and our friends and relations.",
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"ref": "1652, Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, Chocolate= or, An Indian Drinke",
"text": "And therefore my desire is, to take this paines, for the pleasure, and profit of the publicke; endeavouring to accommodate it to the content of all, according to the variety of those things, wherewith it may be mixt; that so every man may make choise of that, which shal be most agreeable to his disposition.",
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"ref": "1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor",
"text": "Tis not vnknown to you, The feruent loue I beare to young Anne Page, And mutally her loue againe to mee: But her father still against her choise, Doth seeke to marrie her to foolish Slender, 10 And in a robe of white this night disguised, Wherein fat Falstaffe had a mightie scare, Must Slender take her and carrie her to Catlen, And there vnknowne to any, marrie her.",
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"ref": "1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death",
"text": "Behold him now, according to his wish, at libertie: in that age, wherein Hercules had the choise, to take the way of vertue or of vice, reason or passion for his guide, and of these two must take one.",
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"ref": "1504, Nicholas Udall, Roister Doister",
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"ref": "1655, R[ichard] Younge, Armour of Proof, or A Soveraign Antidote, Against the Contagion of Evil Company. […], second part, London: […] J. M. for James Crump, […], §. 28, page 11",
"text": "When Cato Utican, in vacation times, and at his beſt leaſure, went to recreate himſelf in the country, he uſed to cary with him the beſt Philoſophers, and choiſeſt bookes.",
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"ref": "1664, John Heydon, Theomagia, or The Temple of Wisdome. […], London: […] T. M. for Henry Brome […], and for Tho. Rooks […], page 141",
"text": "But why then have ſuch an infinite number of other fooleries been taken into conſideration, and thought a fit ſubject for their learned Pens, which are a thouſand times more Ridiculous in appearance, then this is? whereas, on the contrary, there is no Aſtrologer, to whom this Science is not neceſſary; nor any ſearcher into the choiſer pieces of Theological antiquity, to whom in like manner it may not be uſeful; if at leaſt it be true.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1652, Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, Chocolate= or, An Indian Drinke",
"text": "And therefore my desire is, to take this paines, for the pleasure, and profit of the publicke; endeavouring to accommodate it to the content of all, according to the variety of those things, wherewith it may be mixt; that so every man may make choise of that, which shal be most agreeable to his disposition.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor",
"text": "Tis not vnknown to you, The feruent loue I beare to young Anne Page, And mutally her loue againe to mee: But her father still against her choise, Doth seeke to marrie her to foolish Slender, 10 And in a robe of white this night disguised, Wherein fat Falstaffe had a mightie scare, Must Slender take her and carrie her to Catlen, And there vnknowne to any, marrie her.",
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},
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"text": "Behold him now, according to his wish, at libertie: in that age, wherein Hercules had the choise, to take the way of vertue or of vice, reason or passion for his guide, and of these two must take one.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1504, Nicholas Udall, Roister Doister",
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"ref": "1664, John Heydon, Theomagia, or The Temple of Wisdome. […], London: […] T. M. for Henry Brome […], and for Tho. Rooks […], page 141",
"text": "But why then have ſuch an infinite number of other fooleries been taken into conſideration, and thought a fit ſubject for their learned Pens, which are a thouſand times more Ridiculous in appearance, then this is? whereas, on the contrary, there is no Aſtrologer, to whom this Science is not neceſſary; nor any ſearcher into the choiſer pieces of Theological antiquity, to whom in like manner it may not be uſeful; if at leaſt it be true.",
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