Lexicographical Neighbors of Peyse
Literary usage of Peyse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Missionary Journal and Memoir of the Rev. Joseph Wolf: Missionary to the Jews by Joseph Wolff, John Bayford (1824)
"Mr. peyse instructed little boys in reading and writing, and when he was called
before the king, ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... to peyse their bodies, leste they bee carryed away or kept from their hives,
unto whiche they desire to returne with the fruités of their labour. ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain), Shakespeare Society, London (1841)
"... to peyse their bodies, leste they bee carryed away or kept from their hives,
unto whiche they desire to returne with the fruités of their labour. ..."
4. A Middle English Reader by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1915)
"... sb., based on OF. peint, //. of peindre ; painting, 221, 7. poys, sb., NF.
peis, OF. pois; weight, 91, 26. peyse(n), ..."
5. The School of Abuse: Containing a Pleasant Invective Against Poets, Pipers by Stephen Gosson (1841)
"... to peyse their bodies, leste they bee carryed away or kept from their hives,
unto whiche they desire to returne with the fruites of their labour. ..."
6. The School of Abuse by Stephen Gosson (1841)
"... to peyse their bodies, leste they bee carryed away or kept from their hives,
unto whiche they desire to returne with the fruites of their labour. ..."
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