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
• Hold thy chat, queane. —  The Merry Devil
• + 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
• You shall finde it no otherwise my sister, but that either this cursed queane hath invented a great lie, or else that she never saw the shape of her husband. —  The Golden Asse

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