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errour

n. (obsolete spelling of error English) (16th-18th c.)

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Life and Errours, we find that the rest was written by one Sault, at two guineas a sheet, under the direction of Dr. Midgeley.

Life and Errours, we find that the rest was written by one Sault, at two guineas a sheet, under the direction of Dr.

An Unwillingness to take such things into Examination, is on of these Errours of Learning in these times observed by the judicious Verulam.

Indeede in sleepe, The slouth full body that doth love to steepe His lustlesse limbs, and drowne his baser mind, Doth praise thee oft, and oft from Stygian deepe, Calles thee his goddesse, in his errour blind, And great dame Nature's hand-maide, chearing every kinde.

A Crime which we know to be so, is greater than the same Crime proceeding from a false perswasion that it is lawfull: For he that committeth it against his own conscience, presumeth on his force, or other power, which encourages himto commit the same again: but he that doth it by errour, after the errour shewn him, is conformable to the Law.

Know thou, that now thou art safe, and under the protection of her, who by her cleare light doth lighten the other gods : wherefore rejoyce and take a convenable countenance to thy white habit, follow the pomp of this devout and honorable procession, to the end that such which be not devout to the Goddes, may see and acknowledge their errour.

And eke the Prince, when as he them auized,Their like resemblaunce much admired there,And mazd how nature had so well disguizedHer worke, and counterfet her selfe so nere,As if that by one patterne seene somewhere,She had them made a paragone to be,Or whether it through skill, or errour were.

But Glauce, seeing all that chaunced there,Well weeting how their errour to assoyle,Full glad of so good end, to them drew nere,And her salewd with seemely belaccoyle,Ioyous to see her safe after long toyle.

For she was full of amiable grace,And manly terrour mixed therewithall,That as the one stird vp affections bace,So th'other did mens rash desires apall,And hold them backe, that would in errour fall.

It is an unjust scandal of our adversaries, and a gross errour in our selves, to compute the Nativity of our Religion from Henry the Eighth, who, though he rejected the Pope, refus'd not the faith of Rome, and effected no more than what his own Predecessors desired and assayed in Ages past, and was conceived the State of Venice would have attempted in our days.