Lust

Seeing Leslie fills me with a passionate lust.

The boarders hide their lust to go home.

For little luſt had ſhe to talke of ought, […]

[T]he vvorld thruſts it ſelfe betvvixt me and heauen; and, by his darke and indigeſted parts, eclipſeth that light vvhich ſhined to my ſoule. Novv, a ſenſeleſſe dulneſſe ouer-takes mee, and beſots mee; my luſt to deuotion is little, my ioy none at all: Gods face is hid, and I am troubled.

An ideal son is his father's lasting lust.

Pompe, pryde, honour, ryches, and wordly lust, / Parrot sayth playnly, shall tourne all to dust.

It is reported, that Trees will grow greater, and beare better Fruit, if you put Salt, or Lees of Wine, or Bloud to the Root. The Cauſe may be the Encreaſing the Luſt or Spirit of the Root; […]

He then thought that all the sins which he had ever committed were personified, and that they all cried out against him. One cried out, I am thy lust, with which thou formerly lustedst unlawfully, and against the precepts of God: […]

Quoth she, “What offence have I committed?” and quoth he, “What offence can be greater than this? Thou sentest after yonder youth and broughtest him hither, on account of the lust of thy heart, so thou mightest do with him that for which thou lustedst.” Said she, “I know not carnal desire. Verily, among thy pages are those who are comelier and seemlier than he; yet have I never desired one of them.”

And I ſaye vnto you that helias ys come alredy / and they knewe hym nott: butt have done vnto him whatſoever they luſted.

[I]t were more conſonant with reaſon, that a man were ſuffered to take to his Proctor ſuch as he luſteth, and may beſt truſt unto of his matier, than be driven to commit the order of his cauſe, being mefortune of great weight, to ſuch a one as he never knew, ne ſaw before. For whan a man is at his choiſe to chooſe him what Proctor he luſt beſt, if his matier do delay through the default of his Proctor, than, he can blame no body but himſelf.

I Luſt I haue an appetyte to a thyng / Iappette. prime cõiu. [first conjugation] There is no lyuyng creature that can haue all thynge he luſteth foꝛ: […] I Luſte oꝛ longe foꝛ a thyng as a woman wͭ chylde dothe / […]

Wherof he that luſte to ſee examples, let hym ſearch theyꝛ lyues. […] If we be an hungred, we luſte foꝛ bꝛeade.

It auaileth not, to ſée them well taught in yong yeares, and after whã they cum to luſt and youthfull dayes, to giue them licence to liue as they luſt them ſelues.

We paſſed from children and came to yonge men, namely, Ientlemen: we taulked of their to moch libertie, to liue as they luſt: […]

But now there is ſuch a confuſe mingle mangle of apparell in Ailgna, and ſuch pꝛepoſterous exceſſe therof, as euery one is permitted to flaũt it out, in what apparell he luſt himſelfe, oꝛ can get by anie kind of meanes.

The cuſtome in Babylon, as wel inward as outwardd, is in this maner: Small wares at 6 per 100, Coꝛal and amber at 5 and a halfe per 100, Venice cloth, Engliſh cloth, Kerſies, Mockairs, Chamblets, Silks, Veluets, Damaſks, Sattins ⁊ ſuch like at 5 per 100: ⁊ they rate the goods without reaſon as they luſt themſelues.

Of him alſo was made this. Here is Elderton lyeng in dust, / Or lyeng Elderton, choſe which you lust. / Here he lyes dead, […]

Foꝛ the fleſh luſteth againſt the Spirit, and the ſpirit againſt the fleſh: and theſe are contrary the one to the other: ſo that yee cannot doe the things that yee would.

Euen ſo (if he doe not proportionate his helpes and corrections, (according to the diſpoſition of the horſe) in not giuing correction enough, hee will looſe a great glory in his actions, or elſe in not giuing him any, in letting him doe what hee luſt, hee will become ſo ſtubborne and idle, that his courage will bee (as it were) vtterly extinct, and hee will bee as ill as the former, doing that hee doeth without any grace.

O conſider this and pity thy ſelfe, acknowledging that whilſt thou haſt beene thus wilfull and inflexible, thou haſt by the violence of thy ſoules ſickneſſe, beene made franticke and out of thy wits, ſith, as neither with a mad man, none could hitherto preuaile with thee, but thou wouldeſt doe, what thou luſtedſt, and therefore now returne to thy right mind, […]

And though I am encompaſt with all the dangers I may juſtly feare from ſo barbarous a place, which dares doe any thing it luſts unto, without regard of lawes or hoſpitality, I’de tell you ſo, and were you from the Dung-hill that you ſtalke on (it is no better) I’de pull downe that unmanner’d pride within you.

The Spirit and the fleſh are contraries, and they luſt contrary things, verſe 17.

ALBEIT, gentle reader, I have luſted earneſtly, and endeavoured carefully (according to the meaſure of ſuch ſlender ſkill as God has vouchſafed me, and as convenient leiſure from other occaſions of needful profit and healthful paſtime have permitted) that theſe little books, which I here put into thy hands, might ſtand inſtead of many bigger books—yet have I carried myſelf towards thee in ſuch fanciful guiſe of careleſs diſport, […]

They had been seen from the British line as it advanced, ambling and scrambling over rise and dip, firing heavily, as they were ordered to, and then charging with the cold bayonet, as they lusted to.

Under their feet were the gratings of the great ship’s beak; before them was the high plain wall of her lofty forecastle; and at its summit were the outraged Spaniards lusting for their destruction.

Soldier that never lustedst for glory! / Star in the Sun that paledst thy ray! / Not without awe thine immortal story / Trace we in page of a sacred Play.