And let us see what is to be done, and hear patiently all Assertions and Threaps; let this Rain fall to the Ground, and then fall thou to Exercise.

Then, (since my soul disowns the impious threap, That death is only an eternal sleep;) Then with an aching heart, I long to know, How we, my Henry, in the shades below, Shall bear the sceptre and the iron rod Of the grim Tyrant of the dark abode.

I told them I went to seek him, but they threaped me and said I did not.

It's not for a man with a woman to threap.

Come then, threap kindnesse yet apon thy King, Tell him that in the prison thou wilt sing His praises

Take faith with you, and the stronger it is, it will be the more agreeable present to Christ; put a firm trust and confidence in his blood and bowels, bode and threap kindness on him

It is useful sometimes to threap good upon people, providing it be done soberly, prudently, and not in a flattering way, speaking nothing but truth, and withal, doing is seasonably, when the doing thereof will not foster pride nor conceit in people, but will make way, and open a door for receiving the wholesome admonitions and profitable directionsl as the apsotle doth here threap good upon these Romans, to the end his freedom in speaking to them might be the better welcomed, and less exception might be made against it: And I myself am persuaded of you, &c.

While the young swankies on the green Took round a merry tirle: Meg Wallet wi' her pinky een Gart Lawrie's heart-strings dirle; And fouk wad threap, that she did green For what wad atar her skirle and skreigh some day.

Thus are men threaped out of their own persuasions.

I eat some of it so prepared in an English Man's House in this City, and who would threap me down, that it was Sampire, and so named in his Country of Lincolnshire.

Thus the Power of Truth has so great Influence upon you, as to make you decline the Debate, and to yield the Argument to me, and yet your inveterate Prejudices still prevail, and have the Mastery over you, to threap what you cannot defend, but will have others do it for you, who are no way interested;

Some herds, weel learn'd upo' the beuk, / Wad threap auld folk the thing misteuk;

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