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As touching corporal puniſhments and penance, as faſting, diſciplin, hare cloth and other chaſtiſements, it behoueth thee herein to vſe good diſcretiõ, taking ſuch as help to repreſſe the aſſaults and temptations of the fleſh, and leuing others that may be hurtful, not yeelding herein to the heats, which ſome nouices are vvont to haue in their beginning, who thorough indiſcrete mortifying, and dompting of their fleſhe, fal into ſome ſuche infirmitie, as aftervvardes they muſt needes pamper and cheriſhe it to much.
And if he did apprehend (as they ſay) nothing by the iudgement of men, he had no need to carrie his mortification ſo farre, as to dompt and ſubject his moſt inward and ſecret motions, and to pull downe the moſt liuely and ſecret prouocations of his fleſh: but it had bene ſufficient for him to haue vſed diſſimulation, and ſome outward ſhew of pretended reformation.
I, with Regret, remember'd, what a bright Figure he made in one of my Treatiſes: How I had cloath'd him with Armour given him by all the Gods; and had made him the Hero of the Ancients, to dompt thoſe two formidable Moderns, B—t—y and W—tt—n.
Peace is "at home" […] [to all] who, with labour patient and hopeful, have made the wildernesses of the world to blossom as the rose, have dompted and domesticated the winds and lightning to message-birds of business and friendship; […]
The masque represented an episode in the history of the Teutonic order during the year 1377. […] The Knights were victorious in all their engagements, and the wild Kynstutt was so far dompted that he sued for peace, and, as a guerdon of amity, proceeded to the Grand Master's quarters, with a train of richly-ornamented sledges, to invite him and Duke Albert to a grand banquet.
Seeing then that courteſy will dompt the ſavage bird, which, by nature, is devoid of reaſon; much more ſhould it maſter and diſarm the untractableneſs of man or woman; be they ever ſo haughty, fierce or forbidding.
A hero dompts Mattatias, too, a hero of rare astuteness, one who, as we watch, fends off by his quick wits the pogrom which he sees impending over Jerusalem.
Another knife-handle, this time of ivory from Gebel el-Arak, has been carved to show on one face combats between men and boats with standards and upturned ends and on the other a man dompting two lions.
In the case of the Narmer palette, and an ivory carving from Hieraconpolis, this origin is reinforced by the addition of human figures who control or "dompt" the animals. For unknown reasons, the motif of a dompted pair of serpo-felines became the emblem of Cusae, a town in Middle Egypt, and is frequently attested as such in the Old and Middle Kingdom tombs at Meir.
I am like Montu as king of Egypt, fear of me has dompted the Nine Bows, / It is Amun-re, my precious father, who overthrows every land beneath my feet, / I being king upon [his] throne forever!
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