Shakespeare Julius Caesar|III|i|118|2|, let him go, / And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.
Florio Montaigne Essayes|I|27. Of Friendſhip.|92|And therefore doe they preferre the beloved, and verifie that the Gods likewiſe preferre the ſame:
Augustine City of God|What it is to haue CHRIST for the foundation: who they are, that ſhalbe ſaued(as it were)by fire. 26.|XXI|868|But if hee preferre theſe things before CHRIST, though hee ſeeme to hold his fayth, yet CHRIST is no foundation vnto him, in that hee preferres thoſe vanities before him.