"There are certain kinds of frogs in Egypt, about the floud of Nilus, that have this _percewerance_, that when by chance they happen to come where a fish called Varus is, which is great a murtherer and spoiler of frogs, they use to bear in their mouths overthwart a long reed, which groweth about the banks of Nile; and as this fish doth gape, thinking to feed upon the frog, the reed is so long that by no means he can swallow the frog; and so they save their lives."--"The Pilgrimage of Kings and Princes," chap. xliii. p. 294. of Lloyd's _Marrow of History_, corrected and revised by R. C., Master of Arts: London, 1653. "This fashion of countinge the monthe endured to the ccccl yere of the citie, and was kepte secrete among the byshops of theyr religion tyl the time that C. Flauius, P. Sulpitius Auarrio, and P. Sempronius Sophuilongus, then beinge Consuls, against the mynde of the Senatours disclosed all their solemne feates, published th[=e] in a table that euery man might haue perseuera[=u]ce of them."--_An Abridgemente of the Notable Worke of Polidore Vergile, &c._, by Thomas Langley, fol. xlii. "And some there be that thinke men toke occasion of God to make ymages, whiche wylling to shewe to the grosse wyttes of men some _perceiueraunce_ of hymselfe, toke on him the shape of man, as Abraham sawe him and Jacob also."--_Id._, fol. lxi. In this passage, as in others presently to be alleged, "notification" seems to be the drift of the word. "Of this vnreuerent religi[=o], Mahomete, a noble ma[=n]e, borne in Arabie, or, as some report, in Persie, was authour: and his father was an heathen idolater, and his mother an Ismaelite; wherfore she had more _perceuerance_ of the Hebrues law."--_Id._, fol. cxlii. "Where all feelyng and _perseuer[=a]ce_ of euill is awaie, nothyng there is euill or found a misse. As if a manne {401} be fallen into a sound slepe, he feleth not the hardenesse or other incommoditie of his cabon or couche."--"The Saiynges of Publius, No. 58.," _The Precepts of Cato, &c., with Erasmus Annotations_: London, 1550. "Wherfore both Philip and Alexander (if ye dead haue anie _perceuerance_) woulde not that the rootes (rooters) out of them and theyre issue, but rather that the punnishers of those traitors, should enioye the kingdom of Macedone."--"The XVI Booke of Justine," fol. 86., Golding's Translation of the _Abridgement of the Historyes of Trojus Pompeius_: London, 1578. "And morouer bycause his setting of vs here in this world is to aduaunce vs aloft, that is, to witte to the heauenly life, whereof he giueth vs some _perceyuerance_ and feeling afore hande."--Io. Calvin. "Sermon XLI., on the Tenth Chap. of Job," p. 209., Golding's Translation: London, 1574.