bowre

Nor voice was heard, nor wight was seene in bowre or hall.

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

That earst [95] was sought to deck both bed and bowre

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

Personified in the being who presided over the Acrasian "bowre of blis."

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Astrophel, 28: “Merily masking both in bowre and hall,” etc.

The Lady of the Lake 1810

Astrophel, 28: "Merily masking both in bowre and hall," etc.

The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

There fayth doth fearlesse dwell in brasen towre, and spotlesse pleasure builds her sacred bowre.

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

Goe to my loue, where she is carelesse layd, yet in her winters bowre not well awake: tell her the ioyous time wil not be staid vnlesse she doe him by the forelock take.

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

I seeke her bowre with her late presence deckt, yet nor in field nor bowre I her can fynd: yet field and bowre are full of her aspect,

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

The neast of loue, the lodging of delight: the bowre of blisse, the paradice of pleasure, the sacred harbour of that heuenly spright.

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

Then bedde, or bowre, both which I fill with cryes,

Shepheardes Calendar 1579