capring

See (sayd _Faire-fortune_, to her soule shapt _Foe_) How on the scourge that beates against the Ile Of _Flores_, whence they curst oblations growe, A winde-taught capring ship which ayre beguiles,

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How much more natural that our understanding may by the volubility of our loose-capring mind be transported from his place, than that one of us should by a strange spirit in flesh and bone be carried upon a broom through the tunnel of a chimney? ...

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

Maiesties Chamber, suddenly he gaue a great scritch and fell into a madnes, sometime bending himselfe, and sometime capring so directly vp, that his head did touch the seeling of the Chamber, to the great admiration of his Maiestie and others then present: so that all the

Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595

His nimble hands inftiiidt them. taught each firing A capring cheerfulnefs, and made them fing To their own daixe; now negligently raili He throws his arrii, and with a long drawn dafh Blends all together; then uiltindlly trips From this ro that; then quick returning flcips And inatches this again, and paufes - 'here.

The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. cn 1795