swevens

And quoth he, “O rare! an but swevens prove true!”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And it keepeth him from strife and riot, from evil swevens from sorrows and from enchantments, and from fantasies and illusions of wicked spirits.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

It is but dretching of swevens, said Sir Bors, for I doubt not Sir Launcelot aileth nothing but good.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

So saying, the Queen at once summoned the tirewoman, who dressed and prepared the Lady Badr al-Budur, and presently she went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding night from swevens and nightmare, and said to him, "Be not severe with her for not answering thee."

Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

God is gone from me, and will not hear me, neither by prophets, ne by swevens.

The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

And our Lord answered him not, ne by swevens ne by priests, ne by prophets.

The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

Or this: "O rare! an but swevens [FN#477] prove true," from

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

_The Weird Lady_ is an astonishing piece for a lad of twenty-one -- it begins with, "The swevens came up round Harold the Earl, Like motes in the sunnès beam" -- and it ends with the stanza:

Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877

Rejoined she, "O my son, believe not in swevens which be mere imbroglios of sleep and lying phantasies;" and retorted saying,

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Budur; and presently she went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare and said to him, "Be not severe with her for not answering thee."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855