If those principal works of God . . . be but certain tastes and says, as it were, of that final benefit. Hooker.

Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes. Shak.

He found a sword of better say. Spenser.

To give a say at, to attempt. B. Jonson.

Thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! Shak.

His garment neither was of silk nor say. Spenser.

Arise, and say how thou camest here. Shak.

Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say? Shak.

After which shall be said or sung the following hymn. Bk. of Com. Prayer.

But what it is, hard is to say. Milton.

Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double,
Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble? Shak.

It is said, or They say, it is commonly reported; it is rumored; people assert or maintain. - - That is to say, that is; in other words; otherwise.

You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge. Shak.

To this argument we shall soon have said; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies? Milton.

He no sooner said out his say, but up rises a cunning snap. L'Estrange.

That strange palmer's boding say,
That fell so ominous and drear
Full on the object of his fear. Sir W. Scott.