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Examples
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_James Davies_, and are to be sold at the _Turk's Head in Ioy_
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Ioy in Loue, and faith not wasting, and on Fames wings Ile raise thee.
Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 1621
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Ioy thou tortur'd wert with racks, which longing beares:
Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 1621
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In the other ship whose name was the M.nion, went a very learned and vertuous gentleman one M. Armigil Wade, Afterwards Clerke of the Counsailes of king Henry the 8 and king Edward the sixth, father to the worshipfull M. William Wade now Clerke of the priuie Counsell, M. Oliuer Dawbeney marchant of London, M. Ioy afterward gentleman of the Kings Chappell, with diuers other of good account.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And so procedyng, Consider, How, in Winter, he can shew you, the liuely vew of Sommers Ioy, and riches: and in Sommer, exhibite the countenance of Winters dolefull State, and nakednes.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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78: Plague him with Flies: though that his Ioy be Ioy,
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1262: And let him neu'r see Ioy, that breakes that Oath.
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2990: Health and faire time of day: Ioy and good wishes
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1767: One that ne're dream'd a Ioy, beyond his pleasure;
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3028: Ioy, or Sorrow; but in the extremitie of the one, it must
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