Lexicographical Neighbors of Mayster
Literary usage of Mayster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mirror for magistrates: in five parts by William Baldwin, Richard Niccols, John Higgins (1815)
"In the title one has " The Induction:" the other " mayster ... repeated in the
subsequent editions, which also adopt the running title of " mayster ..."
2. Shakespeare Jest-books; Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1881)
"Take of the couer (quoth his mayster). Then holde you the candell (saide the ...
Hys mayster, not content with his talke, said: Hold thy peace, foole, ..."
3. The Chronicle of Froissart by Jean Froissart (1902)
"... canne CAP. with his mayster, often tymes corrupteth and ... in maner of a
mocke, Go to thy mayster Chandos, and bydde hym drinke. ..."
4. Chap-books and Folk-lore Tracts by George Laurence Gomme, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Villon Society, London (1885)
"... herde, she shewed T ; tolde to her mayster. This good man had a fayre yonge
wyfe as ye haue / the whiche he loued moche. but she contrary loued not hym ..."
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