Noun

A bastard no kyngdom]] suld hald Bot if he it wan... Of tirant or of [[Saracen, Sarazin.

A tyraunt þat]] was kyng of [[Sicily, sysile.

To proue]] him Tyrant , this reason may suffice, That Henry [[liveth, liueth still.

The reappearance of tyranny [in the 4th century BC] had many reasons... one of the main causes was the development of antagonism between rich and poor; tyrants came to power exploiting a social and political imbalance within the state.

Ancient Greek tyrannies appeared once more in great numbers with the breakdown of the polis in the period from the fourth to the second centuries [BC]. These later tyrannies tended to rely on a more narrow class base and to use a brutal military rule, and thus writers could use the words tyrant'' and ''tyranny , with their modern connotations of evil and cruelty, to describe them accurately.

Princes, þat]] is,... tirauntis of [[world, warld.

The sonys]] of Yrael, and of the [[king's, kyngus bloode, and the children of tyrauntis .

Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.

To hom]] [[withsaid, wiþsede strong tirant & wilde.

Whan]] a Kyng rulith his Realme onely to his own profytt, and not to the good of his Subgetts, he [[is, ys a Tyraunte .

Tyrannes ...be but Gods]] scourges which he will cast into the [[fire, fyre when he hath done with them.

I am the Sonne]] of Marcus Cato, hoe.
A Foe to Tyrants , and my [[country's, Countries Friend.

They [ to play the tyrant , and which rendered English liberty, as they thought, far inferior to that which the constitutions of their own States secured.

Ore]] louerd helpe weren alle is [[few, fon!

A plague vpon]] the Tyrant that I [[serve, serue

a sad tyrant , as my friends the Democrats sometimes are.

Attache]] þo tyrauntz ...And fettereth fast falsenesse...And gurdeth of gyles [[hid, hed.

That strang]] [[unmerciful, vnmercifull tyrand [Death].

I was a blasphemar, and a persecuter, and a tyraunt .

A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).

O dissembling Curtesie! How fine this Tyrant Can tickle where she wounds?

Public opinion, the greatest tyrant of these times.

The Tyrant ... The courage of this little Bird is singular.

The lesser tyrants' (''Tyrannulæ'') are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The ' tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.

Tyrant or Tyrant-bird, Catesby applied it solely to...the King-bird..., but apparently as much in reference to its bright crown...as to its tyrannical behaviour to other birds.