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- noun Plural form of
loue .
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Examples
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Hence sprang the loues of _Ioue_, the _Sonnes_ exile, The shame of _Mars_ and _Venus_ in a net; _Iunos_ forsaken bed; Saturns compile Of frantike discontentment, which beset All heauen with armes; _Diana_ hence had while To court her sleeping boy; whilst
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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She loues (and liues in) hots of woods in her hart.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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The third sorrowing was of loues, by long lamentation in _Elegie_: so was their song called, and it was in a pitious maner of meetre, placing a limping _Pentameter_, after a lusty _Exameter_, which made it go dolourously more then any other meeter.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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In a worke of ours entituled [_Philo Calia_] where we entreat of the loues betwene prince _Philo_ and Lady _Calia_ in their mutual letters messages, and speeches: we have strained our muse to shew the vse and application of this figure, and of all others.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Who is most merciful, bountiful, and liberal, and willing to helpe and further you, in your intended loues, burning desires, and high conceites.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Orchard: and sooner shall I be weary, than I can recken the least part of that pleasure, which one that hath and loues an Orchard, may find therein.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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This Sand especially taketh delight in Rye, because it is a Graine which loues warmth aboue all other, and yet notwithstanding, if it be well ordered, manured and plowed, it will bring forth good store of Barley, albeit the Barley be not so good as
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Greatnesse, on Goodnesse loues to slide, not stand, and leaues for Fortunes ice, Vertues firm land. l.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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Wherefore haue the poetes in time past fained in their learned and deuine bookes the loues of Iupiter,
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Some rested their heads in the chaste laps of their faire loues, recounting the pleasaunt deuises of _Iupiter_, and they instrophyating their curled locks with sweete smelling flowers.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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