queane

• On my bare honestie it was a craftie queane, for she had enacted with her selfe if he had bin my legitimate seruant, as he was one that serued and supplied my necessities, when hee had murthered me, to haue accused him of the murther, and made all that I had hers (as I carryed all my masters wealth, monie, iewels, rings, or bils of exchaunge continually about me.) —  The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse
• + Downe with this litle queane, that hath at me such spite, —  Ralph Roister Doister
• Of a yoong Nip that cunningly beguiled an antient professor of that trade, and his queane with him, at a play. —  The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking
• But in the middle of his griefe, hee remembred him that said, who am I: Wherewith hee brake foorth into a great laughter, the cause whereof his wife beeing desirous to know, he declared all that passed between him and the deceiuer, as also how sone afterward the queane abreuiated her discourse and followed: so in troth wife (quoth he) betweene who am I and the drab, my purse is gone: let his lesse teach others to looke better to theirs. —  The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking
• Somewhat displeased to be so ouertaken, he looked aside, and spied a lustie youth entring at the doore, and his drab with him; this fellow he had heard to bee one of the finest Nippers about the towne, and euer caried his queane with him, for conueiance when the stratagem was performed: he puts up the counters into the purse againe, and follows close to see some peece of their seruice. —  The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592) With the new deuised knauish arte of Foole-taking

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