eftsoon

• Such new-fangled words as "eftsoon," "albeit," "wench," "soothly," "zounds," "whenas," and "sithence" had stolen into common usage, making more direct and simpler speech a jest and a byword Likewise had prudence given way to extravagance, abstemiousness to intemperance, dignity to frivolity, and continence to lust; so that by these evils was Methuselah grievously tormented, and it repented him full sore that he had lived to see such exceeding wickedness upon earth. —  The Holy Cross and Other Tales
• [FN#356] 'Tis as her glance were arrow, and her brows * Bows ever bent to shoot Death-dart eftsoon: If cheek and shape thou view, there shalt thou find * Rose myrtle, basil and Narcissus wone. —  Arabian nights. English
• Well thirty hundred men were come eftsoon, from whom he chose a thousand of the best. —  The Nibelungenlied
• FN#356] 'Tis as her glance were arrow, and her brows * Bows ever bent to shoot Death-dart eftsoon: —  Arabian nights. English
• And hylas trill; eftsoon the rising moon —  The Path of Dreams Poems

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