cosyn

Ye Philadelphia young ladye 1s not evir of ruddie milke and blonde hew, like unto hir cosyn of Boston, natheless is shee not browne as a chinkapinn or persymon like unto ye damosylles of Baltimore.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

Chaucer wished that words were "cosyn to the dede;"

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

A letter to his "cosyn Mr Williã Tracy att Bristol".

The Records of the Virginia Company of London 1906

Edmond wedded Margarete the doughter of Sire William de Fowles, [20] cosyn to the quene, at

A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum Anonymous 1823

He gives the wool to the women to comb it and card it and spin it; he receives it from them again and gives it to the weaver to be woven into cloth; he gives the cloth to the fuller to be fulled and the dyer to be dyed; and having received it when finished, he has it made up into dozens and sends it off to the wholesale dealer, the draper, who sells it; perhaps he has been wont to send it to that very 'Thomas Perpoint, draper' whom he calls 'my cosyn' and makes his executor.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

And he’ll be buying buys and go gulling gells with his flossim and jessim of carm, silk and honey while myandthys playing lancifer lucifug and what’s duff as a bettle for usses makes coy cosyn corollanes’ moues weeter to wee.

Finnegans Wake 2006

But the words "tenens locum Johannis Darcy le cosyn justiciarii

Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

Sir, quod sir Hughe, there be dyuers suche castelles, as of olde tyme parteyned to Raynalt of Montabon, that hath suche coueyauce, for whan he and his bretherne kepte warre agaynst kynge Charlemayne of Fraunce, they were made all after this maner by the counsayle and aduyse of Maugis theyr cosyn; for when y kynge besyeged them by puyssaunce, and that they sawe they coulde not resyst hym, then they wolde departe without ony leue takynge, by meanes of these passages vnder the erthe.

Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812