hearsal

English edit

hearsal (plural hearsals)

(obsolete) An act of recounting something; a narrative, a recital, a rehearsal.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  With this sad hersall of his heavy stresse / The warlike Damzell was empassiond sore […]