Dearlier

Woulde it greue hym to ſet naught by money foꝛ Chꝛiſtes ſake, that is readye to leade hys ſonne, whome the father loued dearlier than he did hym ſelfe, vnto death?

How lovely now doſt thou appear to me! Never was man dearlier rewarded.

Neece. Not I Sir! all my joys that word cuts off; / You made profeſſion once you lov’d me beſt; / ’Twas but profeſſion! / Hip[polito]. I do’t too truly, / And fear I ſhall be chid for’t: Know the worſt then: / I love thee dearlier then an Uncle can.

Oh you are pleaſant Strephon. Sapho ſay, / Are you as cruell as Aminta? Day / Loves not the Sunne-ſhine dearlier than my flame / Is equally devoted to your name: / To yours Aminta joyntly, Oh you two, / Are clearer, ſweeter than the morning dew / Falling in May on Lillies, fairer farre / Than Venus Swannes, or ſpotleſſe Ermins are.

My beſt reſpect to our beſt friend. If thou loveſt me, be merry. He deſires it, who loves thee dearlier than himſelf, and ſhall ever remain / Thy truly loving huſband, J. C.

Communion with Chriſt, his body and blood and his Saints in his Ordinances, is a bleſſing ſo great, that he that robs ſuch of it that have right to it, may anſwer it dearlier than if he had rob’d them of their purſes: […]

Then tell her I’m awfully sorry—and I love her dearlier than any one else in the world, and I couldn’t make out what we were all about when papa came and carried me away—and I’m very glad she did steal me—and when I’m grown up, I’ll come and live with her, and be always good for ever!

A man of Devon he was, broad-shouldered and fair, with long arms and strong hands, and he could throw a spear as well as he could sit a horse, and pull an oar as well as he could throw a spear; and dearly he loved hawk and horse and hound, but dearlier than all things he loved his wife Enid—Enid of the Faded Dress.

Roy loved his mother and his father dearly, / Joy loved her mother and her father dearly, / Both loved their parents dearlier than anything— / Except, perhaps, a pet.