ch'un

[4] One incident, where Clitophon pretends to have been stung on the lip by a bee, and to be cured by a kiss from Leucippe, has been borrowed by Tasso in the Aminta, (Act I. Scene 2.) "Che fingendo ch'un ape avesse morso il mio labbro di sotto,"

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

"To-morrow," observed T'an ch'un with a smile; "I'll stand an extra treat and invite you to join the society."

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

I could not enter into all this with much spirit; "_non son io quel ch'un tempo fui: _" but I was an amused, though a quiet spectator; and sometimes saw much more than those who were actually engaged in the battle.

The Diary of an Ennuyée 1827