Some others goe further and alledging or rather indeede abusing some peece of the Scripture, where it appeareth that the faithfull haue leaped and daunsed: they thinke verily that they haue founde the beane in the cake, as though this were a proper couerture & cloke to couer the infection and filthines of their daunces.

You may with the middle and ring-finger of the right hand, conuey a testor into the palme of the same hand, and seeming to cast it away, keepe it still, which with confederacy will seeme strange: to wit, when you finde it againe, where another hath bestowed the very like peece.

He that hath once attayned to the facillity of reteyning one peece of money in his right hand, may shew an hundred pleasant conceits by that meanes, and may reserue two or three as well as one: and loe, then may you seeme to put one peece into your left hand, and retaining it still in your right hand, you may together therewith take vp another like peece, and so with words seeme to bring both peeces together.

Give woman the 16th Commendment and we can cry "peece" ontil our wind-pipes are collored, but not a darned bit of peece will we git, except occashunly a peece is nockt off of our snoot, for refusin' to get up early Monday mornin's to do the washin'.)

Ile cut a peece of cheese to drink withall.

Doe not disdayne, faire peece of Natures pride, To heare him plead for love that sav'd thy life.

[Page 98] forty, an hundred Ducates a peece, for his picture

Great shame it is to leave, like one afrayd, So fayre a peece* for one repulse so light.

well sayd; you plaid and you daunc'd, you say good; let me see, halfe a peece or Mus.

How now my Lord, Will the King heare this peece of Worke? Pol.

The conueying of mony is not much inferiour to the Ball, but much easier to doe: The principall place to keepe a peece of mony in, is the palme of your hand: The best peece to keepe, is a testor, but with exercise all will be alike, except the mony be very small, and then it must bee kept betweene the fingers, and almost at the fingers end, where as the ball is to be kept, and below neere to the palme.

Killd himself; his owne hand Most bravely was his Justice; nor left behind him One peece of paper to dishonour ye.

He makes his love to us a warning-peece To arme our selves against we come to Court, Because the guard is doubled.

I, bein' at that time Gustise, was on hand to help perserve the peece.

He that hath once attayned to the facillity of reteyning one peece of money in his right hand, may shew an hundred pleasant conceits by that meanes, and may reserue two or three as well as one: and loe, then may you seeme to put one peece into your left hand, and retaining it still in your right hand, you may together therewith take vp another like peece, and so with words seeme to bring both peeces together.

in the morning our Pinace fell on grounde vpon the coast of Iaua, not far from Pannorocan, where she shotte off three peeces, at the which warning wee made thither with our boates, and by the helpe of God got her off againe: There we saw a high hil that burnt, vnder and aboue the fire hauing a great smoake, most strange to behold.

Because h' has been at Court and learn'd new tongues, And how to speak a tedious peece of nothing; To vary his face as Seamen do their Compass, To worship images of gold and silver, And fall before the she Calves of the Season, Therefore must he jump into his brothers land? Bri.

To throwe a peece of money away and to finde it againe where you please.

Gonzago is the Dukes name, his wife Baptista: you shall see anon: 'tis a knauish peece of worke:

I have a mighty mind To see you tooke a peeces.

In his 'Prefatory Address to the Reader' the author tells, in fine Elizabethan prose, both how his book came into existence, and why he gave it its curious name: 'About eighteene yeeres agone, hauing pupils at Cambridge studious of the Latine tongue, I vsed them often to write Epistles and Theames together, and dailie to translate some peece of English into Latine, for the more speedie attaining of the same.

Yes, I saw her, And me though[t] 'twas a curious peece of learning, Handsomely bound, and of a daintly letter.

'Twere a lamentable peece of stuffe to see great Statesmen have vile Exits; but I hope there are nothing but plaudities in all your Eyes.

I was (methought) halfe in hell my selfe whilst I stood to view this peece.