daunce

• “Example: “Made euery wight to been in swich plesaunce / That al Monday iusten they and daunce.” “every wight” = ME for “everyone” or “everybody””

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence

• “They daunce and pleyen at dees, bothe day and nyght,”

  The Canterbury Tales

• “Juste, and eek daunce, and weel purtreye and write.”

  The Canterbury Tales

• “Whereupon, the Queene with the rest of the Ladies, and the other two young Gentlemen (having sent their attending servants to dinner) paced foorth a daunce very majestically.”

  The Decameron

• “Dinner being ended, and the Tables withdrawne (all the Ladies, and the Gentlemen likewise, being skilfull both in singing and dancing, and playing on instruments artificially) the Queene commanded, that divers Instruments should be brought, and (as she gave charge) Dioneus tooke a Lute, and Fiammetta a Violl de gamba, and began to play an excellent daunce.”

  The Decameron

• “When Supper was ended, and the instruments layed before them; by the Queenes consent, Madam Aemilia undertooke the daunce, and the”

  The Decameron

• “Also the Emperours deputy in that place caused the chiefe men of the citie and his two sonnes to daunce before vs. [A small sea.]”

  The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini

• “And when they make any great solemne feast, they all of them clap their hands and daunce to the noyse of musique the men before their master and the women before their mistresse.”

  The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

• “Fast to _Iberia_ flies vntoward chaunce, _Iberia_, which we vulgar Christen _Spaine_, Vpon whose Sunne-burnt continent doth daunce Westerne _Ducallidon_, the greatest maine, Thither shee packs, _Error_ doth their aduance Her coale-blacke standerd in the hands of paine; And as escapt from rauishment or bale, With false teares, thus shee tunes a falser tale.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “They both do ride vpon one horse very trimly decked, and are caried through the towne with great piping and playing, and so returne home and eate of a banket made of Rice and fruits, and there they daunce the most part of the night and so make an ende of the marriage.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

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