Houres

Houres do now seeme dayes, and dayes multiplicitie of yeeres, till the kisse may be given, and receyved in the presence of Nicostratus, yet hee himselfe to avouch the contrary.

The Decameron 2004

See p. 76, _Three Weekes, three Dayes, and three Houres

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

Graces: on the other side, the most beautifull Houres carrying garlands and loose flowers, and making great honor to the goddesse of pleasure; the flutes and Pipes yeelded out the sweet sound of Lydians, whereby they pleased the minds of the standers by exceedingly, but the more pleasing Venus mooved forward more and more, and shaking her head answered by her motion and gesture, to the sound of the instruments.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

But memory furnished also a remedy for the chill, in the observation of Bacon, that "a Man that is young in Yeares, may be Old in Houres, if he have lost no Time."

Omaha, the Prairie City 1902

So down the river, reading "The Adventures of Five Houres," which the more I read the more I admire.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

"The Adventures of Five Houres," and it is a most excellent play.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 22: May/June 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668

So down the river, reading "The Adventures of Five Houres," which the more I read the more I admire.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

"The Adventures of Five Houres," and it is a most excellent play.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

"The Adventures of Five Houres," and it is a most excellent play.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

So down the river, reading "The Adventures of Five Houres," which the more I read the more I admire.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aug/Sep 1666 Pepys, Samuel 1666