Corne they sowe not, neither do eate any bread, mocking the Christians for the same, and disabling our strengths, saying we liue by eating the top of a weede, and drinke ❋ Unknown (2003)
Tare-Cockle, or such like, you shall with weede-hookes, or nippers of woode, cut, or plucke them vp by the rootes; and also if you finde any annoyance of stones, which hinders the growth of your Corne, as generally it happens in this soyle, you shall then cause some Boyes and ❋ Gervase Markham (N/A)
And yet Dorastus, shame not at thy shepheard's weede: The heavenly ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)
Pancalier against the Duchesse, which the Duchesse vnderstanding (hauing none other companie but Emilia, and a yong damsell) dispoiled herselfe of her silken garmentes, and did put on mourninge weede, martired with an infinite nomber of sondrie tormentes, seing herselfe abandoned of al worldly succour, made her complaints to God: beseeching him with teares to be protector of her innocencie. ❋ William Painter (N/A)
I could not chuse but apply my self in some sort to the season, and either proove a weede in my encrease without profit, or ❋ Arthur Acheson (1897)
_The soveraine weede, divine tobacco_, it may be presumed that he was a smoker. ❋ George Latimer Apperson (1897)
Christians for the same, and disabling our strengthe, saying we live by eating the toppe of a weede, and drinke a drinke made of the same, ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)
No: I will rob Tellus of her weede to strowe thy greene with Flowers, the yellowes, blewes, the purple ❋ Unknown (1609)
They keepe and obserue the rites of matrimonie sauing that euery one weddeth 2 or 3 wiues, which (their husbands being dead) do neuer marrie againe, but for the death of their husbands weare a certaine blacke weede all the daies of their life, besmearing al their faces with cole dust and grease mingled togither as thicke as the backe of a knife, and by that they are knowen to be widdowes. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)
Corne they sowe not, neither do eate any bread, mocking the Christians for the same, and disabling our strengths, saying we liue by eating the top of a weede, and drinke a drinke made out of the same, allowing their great deuouring of flesh, and drinking of milke to be the increase of their strength. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)
They neuer strouen to be chiefe, and simple was theyr weede. ❋ Unknown (1579)
"pale and wan;" but, rather than for love, it was more than probably from his immoderate indulgence in the "newe weede," which he _drank_ [9], though ❋ Various (1852)
719: And duller should'st thou be then the fat weede ❋ Unknown (1623)
In 1596 Coghan wrote of it: "I will speak somewhat of the Nettle that Gardeners may understand what wrong they do in plucking it for the weede, seeing it is so profitable to many purposes .... ❋ Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1868)
"And yet, Dorastus, shame not at thy shepheard's weede: the heavenly godes have sometime earthly thoughtes. ❋ Various (1852)
"The women," says Roger Williams, "set or plant, weede and hill, and gather and barne all the corne and Fruites of the field," and of drying the corn, he adds, "which they doe carefully upon heapes and ❋ Samuel De Champlain (1601)
So lett it stand vntill it come to a coulor within 3 daies tyme the weede vnrotted take out lett the rest stand 24 houres Ifi-H.] ❋ Unknown (1792)
