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" ... if they heard it not before it had done speaking all their labour should be lost ; they, being satisfied, licensed the spirit for to depart. " Then went these two learned... "
The Lyfe of Robert the Deuyll. A Romance - Page 4
by Robert (le Diable.) - 1828
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Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana; Or, A Select Collection of Curious Tracts ...

Christmas plays, English - 1816 - 406 pages
...consented to doe it, and told them, thet with a cotinual fume of the six hotest Simples it should haue motion, and in one month space speak, the Time of the moneth or day b^^e^^^^^jipf^ld them, that if they heard it not before it had d9ne..^pe*king,, all their labour should...
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies

Great Britain - 1845 - 538 pages
...should have motion, and in one month's space speak, the time of the month or day he knew not: also he told them, that if they heard it not before it had...spirit for to depart. " Then went these two learned friars home again, and prepared the simples ready, and made the fumes, and with continual watching...
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies..

Authors - 1845 - 370 pages
...should have motion, and in one month's space speak, the time of the month or day he knew not: also he told them, that if they heard it not before it had...spirit for to depart. "Then went these two learned friars home again, and prepared the simples ready, and made the fumes, and with continual watching...
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies..

Authors - 1845 - 762 pages
...should have motion, and in one month's space speak, the time of the month or day he knew not : also he told them, that if they heard it not before it had...spirit for to depart. " Then went these two learned friars home again, and prepared the simples ready, and made the fumes, and with continual watching...
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Gammer Gurton's famous histories of sir Guy of Warwick, sir Bevis of Hampton ...

William John Thoms - 1846 - 126 pages
...should have motion ; and in one month's space, speak. The time of the month or day he knew not : also he told them, that if they heard it not, before it had...be lost. They being satisfied, licensed the spirit to depart. Then went these two learned friars home again, and prepared the simples ready, and made...
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The boys' own story-book, by the best authors, Volume 677

Boys - 1852 - 466 pages
...should have motion, and in one month's space speak ; the time of the month or day he knew not : also, he told them, that if they heard it not before it had...be lost : they being satisfied, licensed the spirit to depart. Then went these two learned friars home again, and prepared the simples ready, and made...
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The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties, Volume 2

George L. Craik - Self-culture - 1858 - 894 pages
...its duty, when it "told them that with the continual fume of the six hottest simples it (the head) should have motion, and in one month space speak, the time of the month or day he knew not ; also he told them, that, if they heard it not before it had done speaking,...
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Things Not Generally Known: Popular Errors Explained & Illustrated ...

John Timbs - Common fallacies - 1858 - 274 pages
...finished, was warranted to speak in the course of one month ; but it was quite uncertain when ; and if they heard it not before it had done speaking, all their labour would be lost. After watching for three weeks, fatigue got the mastery over them, and Bacon set his...
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Things Not Generally Known: Curiosities of History

John Timbs - History - 1858 - 272 pages
...when finished was warranted to speak in the course of one month, but it was quite uncertain when ; and if they heard it not before it had done speaking, all their labour would be lost. After watching for three weeks, fatigue got the mastery over them, and Bacon set his...
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Stories of Inventors and Discoverers in Science and the Useful Arts ...

John Timbs - Discoveries in science - 1860 - 432 pages
...— the head was warranted to speak in the course of one month, but it was quite uncertain when ; and if they heard it not before it had done speaking, all their labour would be lost. Bacon, wearied with three weeks' watching, set his man Miles to watch, with strictest...
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