pac'd

There is some evidence, moreover (Andy Elfenbein tells me) that legend was sounded in Keats's day with a first long e; if so, leaf gets an echo, along with a pun on legion'd — a word Keats sounds in fantasy in The Eve of St. Agnes, where "legion'd fairies pac'd the coverlet" of Madeline's quiet sleep (xix).

Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound 2008

At the end of this dreary place was a broken door, consisting only of a plank or two, that I easily pull'd away: and beyond, a narrow passage, over which I heard the tread of troopers plainly, as they pac'd to and fro; also the muffled note of the clock, sounding seven.

The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Presently Washington heard that Clifton had sold his lands to another for twelve hundred pounds, which “fully unravelled his conduct ... and convinced me that he was nothing less than a thorough pac'd rascall.”

The True George Washington Ford, Paul L 1896

That neigh'd, and pac'd their usual speed, and soon

Sixth Book 1857

_Remember, my adorable, it is now seven o'clock: I have my watch in my hand, waiting and looking on the slow pac'd minutes.

Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister Aphra Behn 1664

With flighted paflipn pac'd along All in the moony light;

Poems for Young Ladies: In Three Parts. Devotional, Moral, and Entertaining 1785

As we pac'd along Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,

The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected 1773

The Hopes of gaining Time to work his Ends upon _Spain_, will easily account for his forwardness in clapping up a Peace, and giving up more Towns than he had been Master of by the War; for thus like a through pac'd Politician, he humbled himself by little Condescensions to the Feet of the Allies, and sacrifices these Excrescencies of his Glory, in hopes very speedily to make good all such Deficiences by the larger

Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) Daniel Defoe 1696

2514: And with the same full State pac'd backe againe

Henry VIII (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623