stoupe

For he that of late was great and made all men to stoupe before him, is become altogether such a one as though he had never beene, and the poore humble man aduaunced to that estate, from whence the firste did fall and was deposed, makinge lawes sometimes for him, vnder whom he liued a subiect.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Now knyghte, said Accolon unto Arthur, kepe the wel from me, but Arthur ansuered not ageyne, and gat hym suche a buffet on the helme that he made hym to stoupe nygh fallynge doune to the earthe.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

For no man euer sawe the lion make obedience, and stoupe before the lionesse, nether yet can it be proued, that the hinde taketh the conducting of the heard amongest the hartes.

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878

And yet (alas) man, who by the mouth of God hath dominion apointed to him ouer woman, doth not onlie to his own shame, stoupe vnder the obedience of women, but also in despit of God and of his apointed ordre, reioyseth, and mainteineth that monstruouse authoritie, as a thing lauful and iust.

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878

For no man euer sawe the lion make obedience, and stoupe before the lionesse, nether yet can it be proued, that the hinde taketh the conducting of the heard amongest the hartes.

The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874

And yet (alas) man, who by the mouth of God hath dominion apointed to him ouer woman, doth not onlie to his own shame, stoupe vnder the obedience of women, but also in despit of God and of his apointed ordre, reioyseth, and mainteineth that monstruouse authoritie, as

The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874

Near the doorway to the oratory, was the stoupe or aspersorium for holy-water; and in various cysts and crypts, in either room, were caskets containing the relics of saints.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Near the doorway to the oratory, was the stoupe or aspersorium for holy-water; and in various cysts and crypts, in either room, were caskets containing the relics of saints.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Purchase of me? away ye Rascall, I am an honest plaine Carpenters [wife] and thoughe I haue no beautie to like a husband yet what soeuer is [mine scor] nesto stoupe to a straunger: hand off then when I bid thee

Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590

And yet in the same tyme, it began to fade and stoupe, as

The Scholemaster 1570