newes
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- Obsolete spelling of news
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 115, column 1:
- Theſe newes (my Lords) may cheere our drooping ſpirits: / ’Tis said, the ſtout Pariſians do reuolt, / And turne againe vnto the warlike French.
- 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
- This ſtrange vnwelcome and vnhappie newes, / Of theſe vnnaturall Rebels and vniuſt, / That threaten wracke vnto this wretched Land, / Aye me affrights my womans mazed minde, / Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, / That now vnleſſe ſome better tidings come, / Vnto my ſonne their true annointed King.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 74, column 2:
- This newes is old enough, yet it is euerie daies newes.
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of the first Punicke Warre”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 5th book, §. VIII (The Romans preuaile in Africk. Atilivs the Consull propoundeth intolerable conditions of peace to the Carthaginians. He is vtterly beaten, and made prisoner.), page 356:
- With what joy theſe newes were well-commed, when they came to Carthage, we may eaſily conjecture; […]
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