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- noun Obsolete spelling of
sorrow .
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Examples
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Then laye they a goates horne on the toppe and departe, biddinge sorrowe go plaie him.
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Knightes ioye was turned into sorrowe, after they had lost so great an enemie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And therefore cast away, shake of, and forget all afflicting sorrowe, and frame thy selfe and thy affrighted spyrits to intertaine of our comforts solace and pleasure.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Who, if you be tormented, liueth not without griefe and sorrowe altogether like vnto yours.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Alas howe my soule and bodye were lothe to leaue one an another, the sorrowe whereof made me vnwilling to intertaine so cruel an enemy as death: whereupon I plucking vp a good heart, thought thus.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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If I should talke in words of those things which I haue to conferre with thee in writings, certes thou would blush for shame, and I weepe for sorrowe: neither could my tongue vtter yat with patience, which my hand can scarse write with modesty, neither could thy ears heare that without glowing, which thine eyes can hardly vewe without griefe.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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But what sorrowe and griefe will it be, to see them wander in the world like vagabounds banished from their liuings, and remaine in continuall pouertie, without place and refuge of their miserie? who in steede of blessing or praysinge the houre of thy birth, will cursse the in their minds a thousand times, as the cause of all their ouerthrow and ill fortune.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Ne yet do know how to dissemble my sorrowe, but that in the ende the same will be discouered by the fumes of myne ardente sighes, which thinking to constraine or retaine, I do nothinge els but burie my selfe within mine owne bodye: assuringe thee, that greater is one droppe of bloude that swelteth the harte within, then all the teares that maye be wept in the whole life without.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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In the year 1586, a Protestant zealot, a soldier, [1] writes: -- 'When the belles tole to the Lectorer, the trumpetts sound to the Stages, whareat the wicked faction of Rome lawgeth for joy, while the godly weepe for sorrowe.
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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And in dede, he shewed sufficiently, how great the grief was that pressed him, and how well the passion that he felt, was agreable to the wordes which he spake: for in pronouncing his wordes he sighed so in his tale, and changed his colour so often, and had his face so besprent with teares, as it semed his soule attached with superfluous sorrowe, would at that very instant haue abandoned his bodye.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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