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The bewtifull and honorable damosels sate in order vpon the Benches, compast about all along by the sides of the walles vppon the right side, and the best of the Court, with a rare and strange kinde of womanly dressing vppon their heads, as is in the world, with the tresses of their haire lapt and bowed vp in Caules of gold.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Then where you will haue your rime or concord to fall, marke it with a compast stroke or semicircle passing ouer those lines, be they farre or neare in distance, as ye haue seene before described.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

_On Evil Daies though fall'n and Evil Tongues, in Darkness, and with Dangers compast round, and Solitude_.

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

And all the skye from ende to ende he compast round about

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

Nay I am sure she dooes, she came to him th 'other day into the compast window, and you know hee has not past three or foure haires on his chinne.

The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition) 1609

The new begins his compast course anew: with shew of morning mylde he hath begun, betokening peace and plenty to ensew,

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

Then where you will haue your time or concord to fall, marke ti with a compast stroke or semicircle passing ouer those lines, be they farre or neare in distance, as ye haue seene before described.

The Arte of English Poesie 1569

As When _Dinocrates_ the famous architect, desirous to be knowen to king _Alexander_ the great, and hauing none acquaintance to bring him to the kings speech he came one day to the Court very strangely apparelled in long skarlet robes, his head compast with a garland of Laurell, and his face all to be slicked with sweet oyle, and stoode in the kings chamber, motioning nothing to any man: newes of this stranger came to the king, who caused him to be brought to his presence, and asked his name and the cause of his repaire to the

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

2508: I see thee compast with thy Kingdomes Pearle,

Macbeth (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

4.22.2: As compast was within his corps, whose picture is here set.

"Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557