warderobe

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247] [Sidenote: In the Wardrobe take care to keep the clothes well,] ++In þe warderobe ye must muche entende besily the robes to kepe well/& also to brusche þem̅ clenly; 940

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  • Which Alerane perceiuing and saw that Radegonde was gone into the warderobe, to suffer them to talke their fill, he began to take possession of her mouthe, redoubling kisse vpon kisse, sometimes washed with teares, sometime dried vp, with frequent vse thereof, leauing neither eye nor cheke vnkissed: and seing the pacience of his Ladye, he seased vpon her white, harde, and round breastes, whose pappes with sighes moued and remoued, yelding a certaine desire of Alerane to passe further. —  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • 247] [Sidenote: In the Wardrobe take care to keep the clothes well,] ++In þe warderobe ye must muche entende besily the robes to kepe well/& also to brusche þem̅ clenly; 940 —  Early English Meals and Manners
  • The messanger assured him of al that he required, and instructed him what he had to doe for the accomplishement of that he loked for, which was, that the next day at night she would cause him to come into her warderobe, which was adioyning to the Chamber of his Lady, to the ende that when her maydes were a bed, he might repaire to the place where he might easely visite his maistresse, and say vnto her what he thought good. —  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • Which Alerane perceiuing and saw that Radegonde was gone into the warderobe, to suffer them to talke their fill, he began to take possession of her mouthe, redoubling kisse vpon kisse, sometimes washed with teares, sometime dried vp, with frequent vse thereof, leauing neither eye nor cheke vnkissed: and seing the pacience of his Ladye, he seased vpon her white, harde, and round breastes, whose pappes with sighes moued and remoued, yelding a certaine desire of —  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • _ ---- And to Robert Boillet for blac paper and nailles for closing and fastenyng of diuers cofyns of ffyrre wherein the Kings boks were conveyed and caried from the Kings grete warderobe in London vnto Eltham aforesaid, v_d. —  Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
 

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