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a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 47/1 Waye the good that they dooe, with the hurte that commeth of them.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Pref. sig. ❧.i^v If those men will waye their labor, with the profite in knowlege, whiche dayely they shal obtein by readyng vpon the boke.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ii. sig. O For by no meanes the false will with the truth be wayd . View more context for this quotation

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. ii. 98 But in that Cristall scales let there be waide, Your Ladyes loue, against some other maide.

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B3^v The old world & the new waighed together.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 8 Then wisely (good Sir) weigh Our sorrow, with our comfort. View more context for this quotation

1647 A. Cowley Love Undiscovered in Mistress ii Forbid it Heaven my Life should be Weigh'd with her least Conveniency.

1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 150 The fragrant grove, th' inestimable mine, Were light when weigh'd against one smile of thine.

1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Oct. 406/1 While we had been weighing anxiously prudence against sentiment.

1829 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula II. 265 He anxiously weighed his own resources against those at the enemy's disposal.

1868 A. Helps Realmah (1876) vi. x. 112 But of what weight was any mere earthly consideration of that kind when weighed against the danger of impiety?

1917 Q. Rev. Jan. 16 They held their lives to be of little price, when weighed against a nation's fidelity to its engagements.