Lexicographical Neighbors of Pranckes
Literary usage of Pranckes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Courtier from the Italian of Count Baldassare Castiglione by Baldassarre Castiglione (1900)
"Wherof ye have left oute one percell that ye named • will likewise in Meerie
pranckes so boulden us, that we maye take a courage to practise some against ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"And as 1 gesse bicause his loue was Vn;i, That played hir pranckes according to
hir kinde, He wrote these wordes bir best excuse ..."
3. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"The second, of the use of them, and of mery jestes and pranckes. The third, of
the conditions and qualities of a waiting gentlewoman. ..."
4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"... who but he To wash their dishes for some fresh cheese hire, Or set their pots
and kettles 'bout the fire. Twas a mad Robin that did divers pranckes, ..."
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