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sprent
[ sprent ]
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Perfume sweet, health-giving scent, The meadows' pride, is o'er it sprent: Sleep, dear son, a little spell, Sleep, sleep, and thou shalt be well.
But I have donned the broken shoes Of those who dwell on land, and sprent My tongue with ash of discontent Because my memory seems to lose The sounding Psalm that sang You Hail, Who decked my prows in gold attire, When in Your hands the sheets were fire, The sun a spreading peacock's tail.
I have inhaled love like a garland sprent With morning dew, and fragrant with a scent That set my kisses fluttering over it, As butterflies of silk and velvet flit.
Torrent grips the Giant; Torrent vndyr hys spryt he sprent f. 79a.
Look at yon carven shield, Above the chantry door, No blazoned pride bedecks its field, But emblems five sprent o'er.
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