We have not been covetous, honourable fathers, to change, neither is it now any new lust that alters our affection, or old lothing, but those needful jealousies of state, that warn wiser princes hourly toprovide their safety, and do teach them how learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy; much more of those great ones, whom their own employed favours have made fit for their fears.
1606,Ben Jonson,Volpone,Dedication, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume III page164:
As for those that will (by faults which charity hath raked up, or common honesty concealed) make themselves a name with the multitude, or, to draw their rude and beastly claps, care not whose living faces they intrench with their petulant styles, may they do it without a rival, for me! I choose rather to live graved in obscurity, than share with them in so preposterous a fame. Nor can I blame the wishes of those severe and wise patriots, whoproviding the hurts these licentious spirits may do in a state, desire rather to see fools and devils, and those antique relics of barbarism retrieved, with all other ridiculous and exploded follies, than behold the wounds of private men, of princes and nations
1838,William H[ickling] Prescott,History of the Reign ofFerdinand andIsabella, the Catholic.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell,→OCLC:
provide such natives to the higher dignities of the church
As seen in the examples, when not used withthat for previous conditions,provide is used with the prepositionsfor (beneficiary; also without preposition, usual for pronouns) andwith (object).
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