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Definition of Pleaseth
1. please it [coll]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleaseth
Literary usage of Pleaseth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures Into by William Fulke (1843)
"It pleaseth you worse, perhaps, that less favour- the worse to be liked of them that
... I fly not therefore (as it pleaseth your wisdom to say) from that ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... succeeds another, and that so soon, that before one is ended I begin with a
second; she that is last is still fairest, and she that is present pleaseth ..."
3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... she that is last is still fairest, and she that is present pleaseth me most ;
as an hydra's head my loves increase, ..."
4. A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures Into by William Fulke (1843)
"It pleaseth you worse, perhaps, that less favour- the worse to be liked of them that
... I fly not therefore (as it pleaseth your wisdom to say) from that ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... succeeds another, and that so soon, that before one is ended I begin with a
second; she that is last is still fairest, and she that is present pleaseth ..."
6. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... she that is last is still fairest, and she that is present pleaseth me most ;
as an hydra's head my loves increase, ..."
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