surquedry

• But with the weight of their own surquedry** They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare, And buried now in their own ashes ly, Yet shewing, by their heapes, how great they were. —  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5
• But, with the weight of their own surquedry, —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
• And in their raging surquedry disdaynd —  Marmion
• But this extreame surquedry, forfeyted his wittes, so as at last they could not serue him to know any letter in the booke, or to remember ought that he had done In King Henry the thirds time, liued Michael of Cornwall, admirable (as those dayes gaue) for his variety of Latine rimes, who maintayned the reputation of his Countrey, against Henry de Abrincis, the Kings Arch-Poet, but somewhat angerly, as it seemeth by these verses against the said de Abrincis Est tibi gamba capri, crus Passeris, & latus Apri Os leporis, catuli nasus, dens & gena muli Frons vetulae, tauri caput, & color vndique Mauri His argumentis, quibus est argutia mentis Quod non a Monstro differs, satis hic tibi monstro 1292] Walter of Exon, a Franciscane Frier of Carocus in Cornwall, at the request of Baldwin of Exon (de-) formed the Historie of Guy of Warwick Godfrey, surnamed of Cornwall, was about that time a cunning Schoole-man, and Diuinitie Reader in Paris 1342] William de Grenefild, from the Deanry of Chichester, stepped to the Chauncellorship of England, and Archbishoprick of York, under K. E. the first In Ed, the seconds daies, one Geffrey of Cornwall, is remembred for a writer Iohn Treuisa, a Cornishman, liued in R. the 2. raigne, & translated diuers books into English King Henry the fift not vnmindfull of the ciuiller Arts amongst his Martiall exployts, founded an Vniversitie at Caen in Normandie, & appointed Michael Tregury of Cornwall, for his rare gifts in learning, to bee Gouernour thereof In Henry the sixts time, Iohn Skewish compiled certaine abbridgements of Chronicles, and the warres of Troy King Henry the 7. promoted Iohn Arundel for his learning, to the sea of Excester Neither is Thomas Triuet to be forgotten, as a writer, [60] though he haue grauen his memory in a fairer letter, by building the costly bridge at Bridge-water, of which sometimes he was Lord Within our remembrance Cornwall hath bred or harboured Diuines, graced with the degree Doctorship, Moreman Tremayn, Nichols and Rolls. —  The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue
• What so reasonable as that we should be punished for our pride and contumacy, by a judgment specially calculated to abate and bend that spirit of surquedry? —  The Betrothed

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