proeme

English nobility, whom he calls in one part of his "proeme" the "verie eyes, eares and language of the king, and the bodie of the watch, and redresse of the Commonwealth."

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

But not by tedious proeme to holde the desirous minde from what is promised, thus it beginneth.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

It will be attended with proeme, prolegomena, testimonia scriptorum, index authorum, and notes variorum.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

And the "Clerk" follows the spirit of the injunction both by omitting, as impertinent, a proeme in which his original, Petrarch, gives a great deal of valuable, but not in its connexion interesting, geographical information, and by adding a facetious moral to what he calls the

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

The complete poem was intended to appear with an elaborate mock commentary by Scriblerus, explaining some of the allusions, and with "proeme, prolegomena, testimonia scriptorum, index auctorum, and notæ variorum."

Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Leslie Stephen 1868

Chaucer, when he invokes the muse, in the proeme to the second book of "Troilus and Creseide," only asks her for rhyme, because, saith he, --

Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

To say a word of king _Richard_: he is said in the proeme to have been 'acounted the best and ryallest vyaund [curioso in eating] of all esten kynges.'

The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

As doth Tullie in the o - racion that he made for one Aulus Cecin - na/wherin he begynneth his proeme thus

The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528

¶ A man may also fetche his proeme out of the nature of the place wher he speketh/as Tullie dothe in the oracion made for

The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528