be

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  • 1606
    Occurring forms: was;
    SIR, I was thrice at Lamhith, to haue dined with the Archeb. sins your departure, and still he was to dine, at the Court or with some Bishop. But I must and will finde him assoone as I may: and rather at a meale, then otherwise, because I would haue meanes, to participat at large, about our Collation:

    bodley, let. james (ed. wheeler, 1926), 155