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Sermon, but long, and, reprehending the common jollity of the Court for the true joy that shall and ought to be on these days; he particularized concerning their excess in playes and gaming, saying that he whose office it is to keep the gamesters in order and within bounds, serves but for a second rather in a duell, meaning the groome-porter.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Wherevpon it came to passe on a morning, when he should pull on a new paire of hose, he asked the groome of his chamber that brought them to him what they cost?

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus Raphael Holinshed

And king _Henry_ the 8. her _Maiesties_ father for a few Psalmes of _Dauid_ turned into English meetre by Sternhold, made him groome of his priuy chamber, & gaue him many other good gifts.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

The Duke of Guise comes, and attending the beginning of the councell sends for a handkercher: (the groome of [724] his chamber had forgotten to put one into his hose.)

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

The groome went, and brought him another paire, for the which he paid scarselie so much as for the first.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus Raphael Holinshed

¶Thus endeth the conuersyon of swerers, made and compyled by Stephen Hawys, groome of the chambre of our souerigne lorde

The Conuercyon of swerers (The Conversion of Swearers) Stephen Hawes

The expression "rude groome," which Greene uses in his attack upon

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

Shakespeare, as well as the term "rude groome," which he inferentially applies to him, when coupled with the tradition collected by Nicholas

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

The third day there came in a groome, who complained before the Faery Queene, that a vile enchaunter, called Busirane, had in hand a most faire lady, called Amoretta, whom he kept in most grievous torment, because she would not yield him the pleasure of her body.

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730

And prostitute mee to the basest groome that doeth fre-quent your house.

Pericles (1609 Quarto) 1609