...still survive. In his Grace Abounding, § 12, he says, speaking of various deliverances from danger, ' Besides another time, being in the field with one...stick, and plucked her sting out with my fingers.' In Shakespeare and his contemporaries the usage varied. For instance, in The Taming of the Shrew, 1v....

...I fell into a creek of the sea and hardly escaped drowning. Another time I fell out of a boat into Bedford river, but mercy yet preserved me alive. Besides,...plucked her sting out with my fingers ; by which act," he adds, " had not God been merciful unto me, I might by my desperateness have brought myself to mine...

...crick of the Sea, and hardly escaped drowning : Another time I fell out of a Boat, into Bedford-River, but Mercy yet preserved me alive : Besides, another...Adder passed over the highway ; so I having a stick in mine hand, struck her over the back ; and having stunned her, I forced open her mouth with my stick,...

...one of my companions, it chanced that an Adder passed over the highway ; so I having a stick in mine hand, struck her over the back ; and having stunned...and plucked her sting out with my fingers ; by which adl, had not God been merciful to me, I might, by my desperateness, have brought my self to mine end....

...I fell into a crick of the Sea, and hardly escaped drowning: another time I fell out of a Boat into Bedford River,* but mercy yet preserved me alive:*...companions, it chanced that an Adder passed over the High way, so I having a stick in mine hand, struck her over the back, and having stounded* her, I forced...

...I fell into a creek of the sea, and hardly escaped drowning. Another time I fell out of a boat into Bedford river, but, mercy yet preserved me alive : besides, another time, being in a field, with one of my companions, it chanced that an adder passed over the highway, so I having a...

...crick of the Sea, and hardly escaped drowning : Another time I fell out of a Boat, into Bedford-River, but Mercy yet preserved me alive : Besides, another...Adder passed over the highway ; so I having a stick in mine hand, struck her over the back ; and having stunned her, I forced open her mouth with my stick,...