... maunde theyr cattell / whiche the execu- tours deliuer nat of suche sort as the may- de[n]s wold / wherupo[n] the co[n]trouersy ariseth. [F.iiii.v] For the executours say they are bounde to delyuer to euery of them an hundred shepe / suche as they that be the executours will. Now here standeth the dout / to whom we shall referre this worde they / to the dought- ters / ... — The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke • Leonard Cox
... boy like that but you cant be sure. as far as i know there aint enny ministers in my family sence the pilgrim fathers landed on the wild New Ingland shoar. then Aunt Sarah she sed peraps it would have been better if they had been a few and father he sed that may be so but i dout it. then father he sed it aint natural for a boy to set round like a sick hen. either he is thinking up sum deviltry or he is getting to be a lollipop and of the 2 things i ruther ... — Brite and Fair • Henry A. Shute