She had more perceverance of the Hebrues law.—Langley’s Polidore Vergile (see N. and Q.)
For his dyet he [Ariosto] was verie temperate, and a great enemie of excesse and surfetting, and so carelesse of delicates as though he had no perseverance in the tast of meates.—Sir J. Harington, Life of Ariosto, p. 418.
He [Æmilius Paulus] suddenly fell into a raving (without any perseverance of sickness spied in him before, or any change or alteration in him [πρὶν αἰσθέσθαι καὶ νοῆσαι τὴν μεταβολήν]), and his wits went from him in such sort that he died three days after.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 221.
Person. We have forfeited the full force of the statement, ‘God is no respecter of persons;’ from the fact that ‘person’ does not mean for us now all that it once meant. ‘Person,’ from ‘persona,’ the mask constantly worn by the actor of antiquity, is by natural transfer the part or rôle in the play which each sustains, as πρόσωπον is in Greek. In the great tragi-comedy of life each sustains a ‘person;’ one that of a king, another that of a peasant; one must play Dives, another Lazarus. This ‘person’ God, for whom the question is not what ‘person’ each sustains, but how he sustains it, does not respect.
King. What, rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison
The immediate heir of England! was this easy?
May this be washed in Lethe, and forgotten?
Chief Justice. I then did use the person of your father;
The image of his power lay then in me.
Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV., act v. sc. 2.