If it please you Ile lead you a hand gallop in the plaine ground, trott up hill with you & racke downewards.

A plaine case: they lie fallow and get hart, then they keepe themselves so in health and so soluble with stewd prunes; and then sipping of sack is a great matter to fatten 'em.

I doe hope you will use plaine dealing, being a Jeweller.

But I cannot stand all day nosing of Candlestickes; meane time beare with a plaine man: whatsoeuer I haue now done, I hope no exception can be taken, it is for your mirth and recreation (and I pray you so take it.)

Elle est sur la Marisce, dans une grande plaine et un excellent pays, où l'on trouve toutes sortes de vivres et à bon compte.

Les montagnes n'etoient que des rochers; les valees etoient de vrais deserts; les plaines n'etoient que des sables.

Here also are yet standing the ruines of the olde tower of Babel, which being vpon a plaine ground seemeth a farre off very great, but the nerer you come to it, the lesser and lesser it appeareth; sundry times I haue gone thither to see it, and found the remnants yet standing aboue a quarter of a mile in compasse, and almost as high as the stone worke of Pauls steeple in London, but it sheweth much bigger.

As an example of the high degree of excellence attained by eloquence, he cites Lyly's Euphues. Whose workes surely in respecte of his singuler eloquence and brave composition of apt words and sentences, let the learned examine and make tryall thereof through all the partes of Rethoricke, in fitte phrases, in pithy sentences, in gallant tropes, in flowing speech, in plaine sence.

Your Lordship might well make that division, if you knew the plaine song.

Who wold haue thought to haue found this in a plaine villaine that neuer woare better garment than a greene Ierkin? Fris.

Soe I thinke, too: when I was young the plaine downe-right way serv'd to woe and win a wench; but now woing is gotten, as all things else are, into the fashion; gallantts now court their Mistress with mumps & mows as apes and monke[y]s doe.

Desire to gaine began this desperate acte; Now plaine apparance of destruction, Of soule and body, waights upon my sinne.

But this good Sir did follow the plaine word, 390 Ne medled with their controversies vaine; All his care was his service well to saine, [Saine, say.]