foison
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Earth’s increase, foison plenty, Barns and garners never empty; Vines with clustering bunches growing; Plants with goodly burthen bowing; Spring come to you at the farthest 115 In the very end of harvest!
From The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
And where shall he find due foison If e'en bread-and-butter's poison?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Gray Pelican, poised where yon broad shallows shine, Know'st thou, that finny foison all is mine In the bag below thy beak — yet thine, not less?
From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
The king, dear son, so good and wise, Has gone from earth and gained the skies, Leaving to thee, her rightful lord, This rich wide land with foison stored.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
When we were come to Cyprus," says Joinville, Histoire de Saint Louis, §§ 72, 73, "we found there greate foison of the Kynge's purveyance.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
