"It is a common jest," says Reginald Scot, writing in the time of Elizabeth, "It is a common jest among the watermen of the Thames to show the parish church of Stone to their passengers, calling the same by the name of the 'Lanterne of Kent'; affirming, and that not untruly, that the said church is as light (meaning in weight not in brightness) at midnight as at noonday."

The appearance of this work is important in the history of free thought, because it raised a clear and definite issue between science and Scripture; and Osiander, who edited it (Copernicus was dying), forseeing the outcry it would raise, stated untruly in the preface that the earth’s motion was put forward only as a hypothesis.

He finds it written in the Rowles of time Navar's a Kingdome solely absolute, And by collusion of the Kings of France, The people speaking all one mother toung, It hath bin wrested for a Royalty Untruly due unto the Crowne of France.

I ask you pardon Sir, My zeal to truth made me unmannerly: Should I have heard dishonour spoke of you, Behind your back untruly, I had been As much distemper'd, and enrag'd as now.

She had thought, and not untruly, during the past cholera weeks, that he was softened, opened to new impressions: but he had avoided her more than everperhaps suspected her again more than everand now he was gone, gone for ever.

Untruly, therefore, was it ever fancied of Pope, that he belonged by his classification to the family of the Drydens.

how weariedly, for one who had scarcely tasted food for that day, and who had left untouched the gift brought by her loving daughter that nightfor which, plain as it was, her heart yearned even amidst its grief, yea, though grief is said, untruly no doubt, to have no appetite.

Take away the dramatic faculty from Chaucer, and the Canterbury Tales become indeed, what they have been most untruly called, mere versions of French or Italian Fables.

At first he declared to himself, most untruly, that there was no one to believe him,no, not one.

He then declared, untruly, that he had altered all the passages which had been deemed offensive, and Louis was weak enough to believe him without further examination, and to sanction a private performance of it at the country house of the Comte de Vandreuel.

Or this designing woman speak untruly, I know not.

" "Yes; and therefore told untruly.

They speak unkindly, untruly, unfairly.