perchaunce

This cannot be better represented then by example of these common trauailers by the hie ways, where they seeme to allow themselues three maner of staies or easements: one a horsebacke calling perchaunce for a cup of beere or wine, and hauing dronken it vp rides away and neuer lights: about noone he commeth to his Inne, & there baites him selfe and his horse an houre or more: at night when he can conueniently trauaile no further, he taketh vp his lodging, and rests him selfe till the morrow: from whence he followeth the course of a further voyage, if his business be such.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Or if (perchaunce) they make an answere, when some question is demanded of them; it were much better for them to be silent.

The Decameron 2004

Yet least perchaunce you might much maruell, how that I

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

I say the Way, because where Sir Thomas Moore erred, it was the fault of the man and not of the Poet: for that Way of patterning a Common-wealth, was most absolute though hee perchaunce hath not so absolutely performed it.

Defence of Poesie 1992

The Greekes and Latines vsed verses in the odde sillable of two sortes, which they called _Catalecticke_ and _Acatalecticke_, that is odde vnder and odde ouer the iust measure of their verse, & we in our vulgar finde many of the like, and specially in the rimes of Sir Thomas Wiat, strained perchaunce out of their originall, made first by _Francis Petrarcha_: as these

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

And if mens eares were not perchaunce to daintie, or their iudgementes ouer partiall, would peraduenture nothing at all misbecome our arte, but make in our meetres a more pleasant numerositie then now is.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

But if you will saye, perchaunce with a poore man, I confesse it: and verely it is to your shame, that you haue not vouchsafed to place in highe estate a man so honest, being your owne seruaunt.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

This verse is a very good _Alexandrine_, but perchaunce woulde haue sounded more musically, if the first word had bene a dissillable, or two monosillables and not a trissillable: hauing his sharpe accent vppon the

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

And perchaunce, Stratonica made a good exchaunge, in taking a yong man, to forsake him that was olde.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

And yet I was (as in good sorte became mee) somewhat doubtfull to enter into such a place, (beeing vnknowne vnto mee) where perchaunce it was not lawfull for me to come.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna