Lexicographical Neighbors of Greetes
Literary usage of Greetes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
""I am come from Child Maurice, A message unto thee; And Child Maurice, he greetes
you well. And ever soe well from me. n. "And as it falls, as oftentimes As ..."
2. Old English Ballads by Francis Barton Gummere (1894)
"'I am come from Child Maurice, A message unto thee ; And Child Maurice, he greetes
you well, And ever soe well from mee. 11. ' And, as it falls, ..."
3. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1880)
"And as it flails out, oftentimes As knotts been knitt on a kell, Or merchant men
gone to leeve London Either to buy or sell ; " And as oftentimes he greetes ..."
4. English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, Helen Child Sargent (1904)
"... God you saue and see I 11 'I am come ffrom Ch[i]ld Maurice, A message vnto
ihee; And Child Maurice, he greetes you well, And euer soe well ffrom шее. ..."
5. Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances by Thomas Percy (1868)
"130 And ever-more well by mee: Yon must either turne againe and fighte, That
ladye fayre she greetes you well, Or goe home and lone your ladye. ..."
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