imbrast
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imbrast
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of imbrace
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- There with great joyance and with gladsome glee, / Of faire Paeana I received was, / And oft imbrast, as if that I were hee […]
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC; reprinted as Dido, Queen of Carthage (Tudor Facsimile Texts; 72), Old English Drama Students’ Facsimile edition, [Amersham, Buckinghamshire]: [[…] [E]ditor of the Tudor Facsimile Texts (i.e., John S. Farmer)], 1914, →OCLC, (please specify the Google Books page):
- The dreames (brave mates) that did beset my bed, / When sleepe but newly had imbrast the night, / Commaunds me leave these unrenowmed reames […]