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 *ted all good Artes; want more then any thing makes men industrious.  Eau & pain c'est la viande du chien: Prov. Bread and water is but a dogs dinner.  Le chat a faim quand il ronge du pain: Prov. The cat's a hungred when she gnawes a crust.  Selon le pain il faut le cousteau: Prov. We must proportion our expence by our meanes.  Tel a du pain lors qu'il n'a plus de dents: Pro. Some haue abundance when they cannot vse it.  Tel grain tel pain: Prov. Such as the corne such is the bread.  Vn mesme cousteau me coupe le pain, & le doigt: Prov. From one thing I receiue both good, and hurt.

Paincture. Looke Peincture. Paindre. as Peindre. Paineux: m. euse: f. Breadie, full of bread.

Paintre. Looke Peintre. Pair: m. A peere; a paragon; also, a match, fellow, companion; also, a paire, at Cards.  Pairs. Vassalls, or tenants holding of a Mannor by one kind of tenure; fellow vassalls, fellow subiects; also, the common Counsellors of incorporate townes haue beene tearmed Pairs. Pairs de la Cour; ou Pairs de fief. Vassalls, ortēants, who sit as Assistants, or Triers in their Lords Courts, (especially when any cause that concerns his inheritance is iudged;) these Pairs are finable to the King for all sentences ill giuen in those Courts.  Pairs de France. The Peeres of France; in old time, and at their first institution (by Loys le Ieune) were but 12; six Spirituall; viz, the Archbishop of Rheims, the Bishops of Laon, & Langres (who also were stiled Dukes) the Bishops (and Earles) of Beauvois, Chaalons, and Noyon; and six Temporall ones; viz. the Dukes of Burgundie, Normandie, and Guienne; the Earles of Flanders, Champagne, and Tholose: At this day all the former six continue; and in lieu of the later (whose estates haue beene, at seuerall times, either vnited vnto, or aliened from, the Crowne) there be more then six, either Princes of the Bloud, or the Princes fauourites; created at seuerall times, and equall among themselues (and vnto the first Peers) in all manner of priuiledges.  Pair, & sequence. A card-play somewhat like to our Post and paire.  La Cour des Pairs. A Court Baron, or Lords Court; and the Parliament of Paris, wherein the Peeres of France may sit as Assistants.  Veine sans pair. A branch of the hollow veine, wherby the spaces betweene eight of the lower ribs be nourished.  I'entends le pair, & la couche. &, Prins au pair, & à la couche. as in Couche. Pair. Like, alike, equall, matching, euen, meet.  Pair ou non. The game called Euen and odde.  À pair de. Like vnto, euen with.  Aller du pair avec. To goe ranke in ranke, or cheeke by iowle, with.  Mettre de pair avec. To compare, or set in equall balance, with.

Paire: f. A paire, or couple of; also, a bet, or stake; whence; Ie m'en vay de paire. I will not hold the match, I will be vnlaid againe. Faire 3 paires de nopces. To make 3 mariages; and hence, in common speech, they say; vne paire de Heures, ou de Pseaumes; A Seruice booke, or Psalter.

Pairie: f. A Peeredome of France; also, equalitie of sub-*
 * iects, or vassalls, in tenure, or in estate.

Pairrie: f. as Pairie. Païs: m. A Countrey, or Region, Land, Prouince, (natiue) soyle; also, (any) ground, or soyle.  Païs coustumier. See Coustumier. Païs de droict escrit. A countrey gouerned by the Ciuile Law.  Païs de suerie. The sweating countrey; Cornelius his tub.  À travers païs. Rouing, at randome, at large.  À veuë de païs. Grossely, hastily, at first sight, without certaintie; without any exact, or neere examination.  Estre bien de son païs. To be clownish, rude, simple, ignorant.  Gaigner païs. To steale on, rid ground, rid way.  Iecter leurs hommes à païs. To set their men on land, or ashore.  Tirer païs. To flie directly forward; and, in trauelling, to goe on, or, to rid way.  Qui m'aura perdu ne m'aille cercher en ce païs là. Let not him that shall happen to loose me looke to find me there.

Païsage: m. Paisage, Landskip, Countrey-worke; a representatiō of fields, or of the countrey, in painting, &c.

Paisant: m. A peasant, boore, clowne, swaine, hind; a hob, or lob, of the countrey.

Paisible: com. Peaceable; quiet, calme, still, gentle, mild, patient.

Paisiblement. Peaceably; quietly, calmely, gently, mildly, patiently.

Paisibleté: f. Peaceablenesse, tranquilitie, quietnesse, calmenesse, mildneße, gentlenesse.

Paissage de bestes. The grazing, pasturing, or feeding of cattell.

Paisse solitaire. A certaine black-browne mountaine bird, which resembles a Throstle, or Owsell, and being incaged sings verie sweetly; or, as in Passe. Paisseau: m. A stake, pole, pearch, prop, or stay, wherwith a vine, &c, is held vp; also, the vine so vnderpropped.  Saulter de treille en paisseaux. (In discourse) to run giddily, or vncertainly, from one matter to another.

Paisseler. To vnderset, or vnderprop with poles, or stakes.

Paissement. as Paissage. Paissiere: f. A banke, or causey, held vp, or in, by stakes.

Paisson: f. Th' Agistment, or Herbage of woods, or forrests; feeding for cattell therein.

Paissonner. Cattell to feed, or brouse, in woods, &c.

Paissu: m. uë: f. Fed on, grazed, eaten, by cattell.

Paistre. To feed, graze, eat, pasture on. Paistre de parolles. To giue words in stead of money; to delay, put off, or toll on, with faire words. La mauvaise garde paist souvent le loup: Prov. Ill watching often feeds the hungrie Wolfe. Les oisons menent paistre l'oye; &, l'oye mene les oisons paistre. Two contrarie Prouerbes of Confusion, and Order; Looke Oison.

Paistri, & Paistrir. See Pestri, & Pestrir.

Paix: f. Peace, quiet, rest; a peace, accord, agreement, composition, attonement. Homme de paix. A vassall; Seeke Homme. Maison de la paix. A Court of Justice; a Law-Court. Sergents de la paix. Ordinarie Sergeants, or Catch-*poles, belonging to some Court. Villes de paix. Peaceable, or priuiledged townes; those wherein subiects are bound to keepe the peace, and to end their differences (if they will contend) by Law. Tout en paix. Quietly, stilly, gently, faire and softly.