Lexicographical Neighbors of Swones
Literary usage of Swones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1913)
"Why, Ned, I think the devil be in my sheath; I cannot Erms. Nor I mine: swones,
Ned, I think I am bewitched. Miles. A company of scabs! the proudest of you ..."
2. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"swones, where ? a plague uppon it! 250 I thinke the devill is set to crosse this
match. Mi. Go. This is the house, Dick Coomes, ..."
3. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"swones, who would not be a man of valour to have such words of a gentlewoman !
one ot their words are more to me then twentie of these russet coates ..."
4. The Works of John Marston by John Marston (1856)
"I know not what t' advise. Enter SECURITY, with his Wives gowne. Sec. Knight,
knight, a rare devise ! Pet. swones, yet againe! Quick. ..."
5. The Minor Elizabethan Drama by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1913)
"Why, Ned, I think the devil be in my sheath; I cannot Erms. Nor I mine: swones,
Ned, I think I am bewitched. Miles. A company of scabs! the proudest of you ..."
6. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"swones, where ? a plague uppon it! 250 I thinke the devill is set to crosse this
match. Mi. Go. This is the house, Dick Coomes, ..."
7. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"swones, who would not be a man of valour to have such words of a gentlewoman !
one ot their words are more to me then twentie of these russet coates ..."
8. The Works of John Marston by John Marston (1856)
"I know not what t' advise. Enter SECURITY, with his Wives gowne. Sec. Knight,
knight, a rare devise ! Pet. swones, yet againe! Quick. ..."
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