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Old and New London
… how they make their entry.' Ben Jonson, "The Devil is an Ass," act i., sc. I. On the 23rd of January, 16612, Pepys …
Old and New London
… a pair of oxen and a pair of asses; Diligence drives the ass, and Solicitude, with a face of care, goads the ox. By …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Tithe Award. Halliday, Information, f. 99; Q. Sess. and Ass. 1736 (W.A.S. Rec. Brch.), 62. M. Gibson, View of the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… with hope when the Lord entered the Holy City riding on an ass. 2 In this hope Pole is confirmed by reason of the day on …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… if he had really exchanged his human form for that of an ass (he having, in fact, represented that character at the … nothing, as the Bishop finds subject for praise even in an ass, administering it in such wise as to raise him to heaven …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… election, Pole, as if the words had been addressed to an ass ( jumento), remained quite silent; whereupon the Cardinal … at the moment he quitted the Cardinal like a sort of mute ass. 7 But that he was made of the ass species, 8 which nature entirely deprived of all sense of …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… been found on the door of the cathedral, representing an ass soiling Cardinal Campeggio ( che cagava adosso il Cardinal Campezo) , the Archduke holding the ass's tail; and beneath was written much abuse of the …