straine

Morley (Introduction to Practical Music, 1597) says a 'straine' should consist of 8, 12, or 16 semibreves (we should say 'bars' instead of

Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900

Our amorous Panuccio being none of the wisest young men in the world, perceiving his errour; sought not to amend it, (as well he might have done) with some queint straine of wit, carried in quick and cleanly manner, but angerly answered.

The Decameron 2004

All which availing nothing, she began to speake in a more milde and gentle straine, entreating him with flattering and affable words, to be governed in this case by his Tutors good advice.

The Decameron 2004

Therefore, if your honesties doe straine themselves a little, both in thinking and speaking, not for prosecution of any immodest deede, but onely for familiar and blamelesse entercourse: I cannot devise a more convenient ground, at least that carrieth apparant reason, for reproofe of perils, to ensue by any of you.

The Decameron 2004

Rounde about these sparres, thei straine cappyng woollen, packyng theim as close as thei can.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

After a little curbing in of his wrath, somewhat in a milder straine, thus he proceeded.

The Decameron 2004

Both of which, albeit they ought of right to haue bene placed among the Southerne voyages of our nation, yet partly to satisfie the importunitie of some of my special friends, and partly, not longer to depriue the diligent Reader of two such woorthy and long expected discourses, I haue made bold to straine a litle curtesie with that methode which

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

_Hanna's_ Spirit rashly by the mooving of her lips: yet hypocrites so usually straine nature and without a cause exceed, and that in publique, and upon the stage, that for the most part, their actions and affections are palpable: as _Jesuites, Cappuchins_, &c. yea in many histrionicall

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

He would make a great deale too bold with God in his passion, both in cursing and swearing, and one straine higher vergeing on blasphemie;

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

With their capitels or heads, wrought with a waued shell worke, and cyllerie or draperie, their corners bearing out and inanulated or turned in like a curled locke of hayre, or the vpper head of a base Viall aboue the pinnes, which straine the stringes of the instrument to a musicall concord; with their subiect

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna