Hayward
Cited as Hayward. — 41 quotations
Acquirement
His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature.
Apparel
Ships . . . appareled to fight.
Appoint
The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn.
Approvement
I did nothing without your approvement.
Cipher
His notes he ciphered with Greek characters.
Concoct
He was a man of a feeble stomach, unable to concoct any great fortune.
Demur
Upon this rub, the English embassadors thought fit to demur.
Edge
By such reasonings, the simple were blinded, and the malicious edged.
Foggy
Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit.
Forsooth
A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm!
Freshness
The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men.
Gash
Grievously gashed or gored to death.
Give
The Scots battalion was enforced to give in.
Grain
Brothers . . . not united in grain.
Hostility
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
Impotence
Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples.
Indisposition
Rather as an indisposition in health than as any set sickness.
Irritant
The states elected Harry, Duke of Anjou, for their king, with this clause irritant; that, if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance.
Keep
Every one of them kept house by himself.
Knuff
The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, With clubs and clouted shoon.
Maim
A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited.
Malignity
His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease.
Mine
They mined the walls.
Move
They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.
Participate
So would he participate of their wants.
Pertain
Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them.
Reach
Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.
Remit
In grevious and inhuman crimes, offenders should be remitted to their prince.
The archbishop was . . . remitted to his liberty.
Rub
Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur.
Sappy
When he had passed this weak and sappy age.
Simplicity
Marquis Dorset, a man, for his harmless simplicity neither misliked nor much regarded.
Sojourn
The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days.
Staff
All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them.
Stay
Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay.
Strain
Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements.
Stuff
He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
Travail
As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility.
Traverse
The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
Wring
The merchant adventures have been often wronged and wringed to the quick.