Now commeth that which is called perfit age, in the which men haue no other thoughts, but to purchase themselues wisedome and rest. ❋ Robert Garnier (1591)
But if it be to mo clauses then one, that some such word be supplied to perfit the congruitie or sence of them all, it is by the figure [_Zeugma_] we call him the [_single supplie_] because by one word we serue many clauses of one congruitie, and may be likened to the man that serues many maisters at once, but all of one country or kindred: as to say ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
But here I wyll staye, leste whilest I goe about to extolle your fames, I doe (for want of perfit skill in due prayse) seeme to diminishe that whiche among all men by commune proofe is sufficientlye renowmed. ❋ William Painter (N/A)
Maister Alexander Galloway Person, of Kynkèll, was with us in thir Illis (the Hebridæ), and be adventure liftet up ane see tangle, hyng and full of mussil schellis, "one of which he opened," bot than he was mair astonist than afore, for he saw na fische in it bot ane perfit schapin foule. ❋ Various (N/A)
And by these few shal ye be able to gather a number more to confirme and establish your iudgement by a perfit discretion. ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
Wherefore beginning first at the smallest alterations which rest in letters and sillables, the first sort of our figures _auricular_ we do appoint to single words as they lye in language; the second to clauses of speach; the third to perfit sentences and to the whole masse or body of the tale be it poeme or historie written or reported. ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
Ye haue another maner of speach drawen out at length and going all after one tenure and with an imperfit sence till you come to the last word or verse which concludes the whole premisses with a perfit sence & full periode, the Greeks call it [_Irmus_,] I call him the [_long loose_] thus appearing in a dittie of Sir _Thomas Wyat_ where he describes the diuers distempers of his bed. ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
Another of their pretie inuentions was to make a verse of such wordes as by their nature and manner of construction and situation might be turned backward word by word, and make another perfit verse, but of quite contrary sence as the gibing Monke that wrote of Pope _Alexander_ these two verses. ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
And yet I am not ignorant that there be artes and methods both to speake and to perswade and also to dispute, and by which the naturall is in some sorte relieued, as th'eye by his spectacle, I say relieued in his imperfection, but not made more perfit then the naturall, in which respect ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
Messias promised, whome we confesse and acknawledge Emmanuel, very God and very man, two perfit natures united, and joyned in one persoun. ❋ Unknown (1889)
And the truth thereof be knowen for never so perfit certainty: ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)
Turner, in 1548, said: "I never saw any perfit Date tree yet, but onely a little one that never came to perfection;" [194: 1] and whether Shakespeare ever saw a living Palm tree is doubtful, but he may have done so. ❋ Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1868)
For theyr place of studie is situate nigh to the Kinges Courts, where the same lawes are pleaded and argued, and judgements by the same given by judges, men of gravitie, auncient in yeares, perfit and graduate in the same lawes. ❋ John Cordy Jeaffreson (1866)
While Jeremy Shockey is a perfit fit for the Saints 'offense and one of their more popular players, and have adequate backups in David Thomas and Billy Miller, the Saints could do worse than drafting a tight end. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Studies, that by their mutual Association, Communication, and Assistance in Reading, Meditating and conferring about profitable matters, they may not onely perfit their own Abilities, but advance the superstructures of all Learning to that perfection, which by such means is attainable. ❋ John Dury (1638)
Lay hands vnto this worke with all thy wit, But pray that God would speed and perfit it. ❋ Unknown (1624)
Thou hast beene God-like perfit, the heir of kingdomes, ❋ Unknown (1609)
Perfit in deede, but herein only perfit, that all imperfections of humane nature, hidden before vnder the simplicitie of childhood, or the lightnes of youth, appeere at this age in their perfection. ❋ Robert Garnier (1591)
Michael being foremost a head shot off a peece of Ordinance, and stroke all her sayles, supposing that they had descryed land which by reason of the thicke mistes they could not make perfit: [Sidenote: Water being blacke and smooth signifieth land to be neere.] howbeit, as well our account as also the great alteration of the water, which became more blacke and smooth, did plainely declare we were not farre off the coast. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)
East way, but were faine to make another boord, the wind being at Southwest and by West, and yet could not double the point to come cleere of the lands end, to beare along the channell: and the weather cleered vp when we were hard aboord the shore, and we made the lands end perfit, and so put vp along Saint Georges channel. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)
