decked

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With this mind hee mounted vpon the highest decke, where hee attended imminent death, and vnauoidable; how long, I leaue it to God, who withdraweth not his comfort from his seruants at such times.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Hakluyt, Richard

To spoile the dead of weed      Is sacrilege, and doth all sinnes exceed; 6 But leaue these relicks of his liuing might,      To decke his herce, and trap his +tomb-blacke+ steed.

From The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 by Spenser, Edmund

Dear offspring of pleas'd VENUS, And jollie plumpe SILENUS;   Haste, haste, to decke the haire,   Of th' only sweetly faire.

From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard

Ile bring you thither: afterward select Delicious sweets to decke your brothers tombe.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

My selfe being aloft on the decke, knowing what was likely to follow, leapt into the waste, where, with the boate swaines, carpenter and some few more, wee kept them vnder the halfe-decke.

From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George