Works_, by substituting,
"perceivance" for _perseverance_, the word in the original quarto of the
_Pinner of Wakefield_, vol. ii. p. 184.:

"Why this is wondrous being blind of sight,
His deep _perseuerance_ should be such to know us."

I subjoin the promised dozen:

"For his dyet he was verie temperate, and a great enemie of excesse
and surfetting; and so carelesse of delicates, as though he had had
no _perseuerance_ in the tast of meates," &c.--"The Life of
Ariosto," Sir John Harington's Translation of _Orlando Furioso_, p.
418.

"In regarde whereof they are tyed vnto these duties: First by a
prudent, diligent, and faithfull care to obserue by what things the
state may be most benefited; and to haue _perseuerance_ where such
marchandize that the state most vseth and desireth may be had with
greatest ease," &c.--_The Trauailer_, by Thomas Palmer: London,
1606.

"There are certain kinds of frogs in Egypt, about the floud of
Nilus, that have this _percewerance_, that when by chance they
happen to come where a fish called Varus is, which is great a
murtherer and spoiler of frogs, they use to bear in their mouths
overthwart a long reed, which groweth about the banks of Nile; and
as this fish doth gape, thinking to feed upon the frog, the reed is
so long that by no means he can swallow the frog; and so they save
their lives."--"The Pilgrimage of Kings and Princes," chap. xliii.
p. 294. of Lloyd's _Marrow of History_, corrected and revised by R.
C., Master of Arts: London, 1653.

"This fashion of countinge the monthe endured to the ccccl yere of
the citie, and was kepte secrete among the byshops of theyr
religion tyl the time that C. Flauius, P. Sulpitius Auarrio, and P.
Sempronius Sophuilongus, then beinge Consuls, against the mynde of
the Senatours disclosed all their solemne feates, published th[=e]
in a table that euery man might haue perseuera[=u]ce of them."--_An
Abridgemente of the Notable Worke of Polidore Vergile, &c._, by
Thomas Langley, fol. xlii.

"And some there be that thinke men toke occasion of God to make
ymages, whiche wylling to shewe to the grosse wyttes of men some
_perceiueraunce_ of hymselfe, toke on him the shape of man, as
Abraham sawe him and Jacob also."--_Id._, fol. lxi.

In this passage, as in others presently to be