Meaning of aboundance | Babel Free

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abundance

obsolete

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“Some besieged, for to shew unto the enemie, that they have⟳ graine more then inough and for to make⟳ him to dispaire, that he cannot, by famin overcome⟳ theim, have⟳ caste breade oute of the gates, or geven a Bullocke graine to eate, and after have⟳ suffered the same to be taken, to the intent that kilde and founde full of graine, might shewe that aboundance, whiche they had not.”

“Violent affections have⟳ made the dumbe to finde a tongue; If it be lowe water the mille may stand⟳; but aboundance of heart will set⟳ the wheeles on going What earnest discourses will unlearned Mariners make⟳ of their voiages?”

“I formed this opinion from continually tracing what we call⟳ "braid Scotch" to its root, in Bosworth's, and other Saxon dictionaries; and I lately found this fact confirmed and accounted for in a passage of Verstegan, as follows:--He tells us that after the battle of Hastings Prince Edgar Atheling, with his sisters Margaret and Christian, retired into Scotland, where King Malcolm married the former of these ladies; and proceeds thus: "As now the English court, by reason⟳ of the aboundance of Normannes therein, became moste to speak⟳ French, so the Scottish court, because of the queen, and the many English that came with her, began to speak⟳ English; the which language, it would seem, King Malcolm himself had before that learned, and now, by reason⟳ of his queen, did more affecte it.”

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