| Avxesis, when we vse a greater word for a lesse, or thus, when the word is greater then the thing is in deede. |
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| In May amongst their corne they plant Pumpeons, and a fruit like unto a muske millen, but lesse and worse, which they call Macocks. |
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| And no people are lesse Philosophers and more foolish, than Platoes Philodoxes, or lovers of their owne opinions. |
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| Now were there any one of so tender or cheverell a conscience, to whome no cure might seeme worthy of so extreame a remedy, I should prise or regard him no whit the lesse. |
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| Extenuation, by which the Crime, that seemed great, is made lesse. |
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| Eurydice...meaning nothing lesse than to let her husband serue as a Stale, keeping the throne warme till another were growne old enough to sit in it. |
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