"And so farre are wee off from being able to atteine to such knowledge through our owne power, that we flee it as much as is possible, and blindfold our own eyes, to the intent we might put away all _perceyuerance_ and feeling of God's judgement from vs."--_Id._, "Sermon XLII.," p. 218. "For (as I haue touched already) God of his goodnesse doth not vtterly barre vs from hauing any _perceyuerance_ at all of his wisdome: but it behoueth vs to keepe measure."--_Id._, "Sermon XLIII.," p. 219. I shall not cite any more from Golding, but simply observe that the word occurs again and again in his translations. The remaining three examples exhibit the noun in a somewhat different sense, viz. "notification," or "means of discerning:" "The time most apt in all the yeare, and affoording greatest _perseuerance_ for the finding out of the heads of wells and fountaines, are the moneths of August or September."--_The First Booke of the Countrie Farme_, p. 8., by Stevens and Liebault, translated by Svrflet, and edited by G. Markham: London, 1616. "He may also gather some _perceiuerance_ by the other markes before specified; that is to say, by the prints of his foote vpon the grasse, by the carriages of his head, his dung, gate," &c.--_Id._, booke vii. p. 685. "And this lyfe to men is an high _perseveraunce_, Or a lyght of faythe wherby they shall be saved." "God's Promises," by John Bale; Dodsley's _Old Plays_ (Collier's edition), vol. i. Part II. Act I. By-the-bye, as a specimen of the value of this edition, take the following passage of this very play: "O perfyght keye of David, and hygh scepture of the kyndred of Jacob; whych openest and no man _speareth_, that speakest and no man openeth."--Act VII. p. 40. On the word _speareth_ the commentator treats his reader to a note; in which he informs him that _speareth_ means "asketh," and in proof of this cites one passage from Chaucer, and two from Douglas's _Virgil_. It might almost appear to be upbraiding the reader with stupidity to mention that _speareth_ signifieth "bolteth, shutteth;" and that "speaketh" is a misprint for _speareth_. This verb was a favourite with Bale. One word more closes my budget for the present. _More_, a root. Still in use in Gloucestershire, once of frequent occurrence. To the examples alleged by Richardson, in his _Dictionary_, add the following: "I se it by ensaunple In somer tyme on trowes; Ther some bowes ben leved, And some bereth none, There is a meschief in the _more_ Of swiche manere bowes." _The Vision of Piers Ploughman_, edited by Thomas Wright, vol. ii. p. 300. At p. 302. you find the sentiment in Latin: "Sicut cum videris arborem pallidam et marcidam, intelligis quod _vitium habet in radice_"--"a meschief in the _more_." The Glossary of the editor is silent.