_:vb7145299 . _:vb7145301 "1605, Francis Bacon, \u201CThe First Booke\u201D, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: [\u2026] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, folio 11, recto:"@en . _:vb7145299 "(figuratively, dated) Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn."@en . _:vb7145300 "[\u2026] harke Nature, heare deere Godde\u017F\u017Fe, \u017Fu\u017Fpend thy purpo\u017Fe, if thou did'\u017Ft intend to make this creature fruitful into her wombe, conuey \u017Fterility, drie vp in hir the organs of increa\u017Fe, and from her derogate body neuer \u017Fpring a babe to honour her, if \u017Fhee mu\u017Ft teeme, create her childe of \u017Fpleene, that it may liue and bee a thourt di\u017Fuetur'd[sic\u00A0\u2013 meaning disnatured] torment to her, [\u2026]"@en . . _:vb7145301 "[\u2026] and it is without all controuer\u017Fie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churlish[,] thwart, and mutinous; [\u2026]"@en . _:vb7145300 "c. 1603\u20131606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], [\u2026] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters.\u00A0[\u2026] (First Quarto), London: [\u2026] Nathaniel Butter,\u00A0[\u2026], published 1608, \u2192OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:"@en . "2" . . . _:vb7145300 . _:vb7145301 .