Meaning of weepe | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of weep.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“But all the rest⟳, as borne of salvage brood, And having beene with acorns alwaies fed, 590 Can no whit savour this celestiall food, But with base⟳ thoughts are into blindnesse led, And kept from looking on the lightsome day: For whome I waile and weepe all that I may.”

“Then fall⟳ they to cry⟳, to weepe, and to torment themselues, as little children that haue lost their play-game, which notwithstanding is nothing worth.”

“Would thy Melancholy have⟳ a cure? thou shalt laugh⟳ at Democritus himselfe, and but reading one piece of this Comick variety, finde thy exalted fancie in Elizium; And when thou art sick of this cure, (for the excesse of delight may too much dilate thy soule,) thou shalt meete almost in every leafe a soft purling passion or spring⟳ of sorrow so powerfully wrought high by the teares of innocence, and wronged Lovers, it shall persuade⟳ thy eyes to weepe into the streame, and yet smile⟳ when they contribute⟳ to their owne ruines.”

“The Springe neglectes his course to keepe, The Ayre continual stormes do weepe, The pretty Birdes disdaine to singe, The Maides to smile⟳, the woods to springe, The Mountaines droppe, the valleys morne Till Jack and Tom do safe returne.”

“'A good play⟳,' he condescends to say⟳, 'I find⟳ it, and the actors most good in it; and pretty to hear⟳ Knipp sing⟳ in the play⟳ very properly "All night I weepe," and sung it admirably.”

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