poxe

When it is dried and thoroughly boyled, it allayes the ebullition of the blood, is good against the small poxe and measles, the bloudy pimples; yet causeth vertiginous headheach, and maketh lean much, occasioneth waking, and the Emrods, and asswageth lust, and sometimes breeds melancholly.

All About Coffee 1909

"They say it is good for a cold, for a pose, for rewmes, for aches, for dropsies, and for all manner of diseases proceeding of moyst humours; but I cannot see but that those that do take it fastest are as much (or more) subject to all these infirmities (yea, and to the poxe itself) as those that have nothing at all to do with it."

Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Harrison about its benefit: "They say it is good for a cold, for a pose, for rewmes, for aches, for dropsies, and for all manner of diseases proceeding of moyst humours; but I cannot see but that those that do take it fastest are as much (or more) subject to all these infirmities (yea, and to the poxe itself) as those that have nothing at all to do with it."

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

A poxe goe with you for your ill newes I'le teach you better manners then to bringe mee word of my vexation. where is shee?

Three Hundred Years Hence 1836

A poxe goe with you for your ill newes I'le teach you better manners then to bringe mee word of my vexation. where is shee?

The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley Jane Cheyne 1644

Begin, a poxe, leaue thy damnable faces and begin,

The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke The First ('Bad') Quarto William Shakespeare 1590

A poxe of the olde slave, quoth Lyonello; I was no sooner in and had given my mistresse one kisse, but the jelous asse was at the doore; the maide spied him, and cryed her maister; so that the poore gentlewoman, for very shifte, was faine to put me in a driefatte of feathers that stoode in an olde chamber, and there I was faine to tarry while [FN#493] he was in bed and a-sleepe, and then the maide let me out, and I departed.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Naught else have they profited by their travell, save learnt to distinguish of the true Burdeaux Grape, and know a cup of neate Gascoygne wine from wine of Orleance; yea, and peradventure this also, to esteeme of the poxe as a pimple, to weare a velvet patch on their face, and walke melancholy with their armes folded. "[

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

160: Why, what a poxe haue I to doe with my Ho-stesse

Henry IV, Part One (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

A plague for their heels, and a poxe for their toes. "

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881