spright

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O thou, the love of whom doth fill my heart and overflow, Even      when wine, with water mixed, fills up the brimming bowl, O thou for whom desire torments my body and my spright!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

Then Abou Musab came forward and recited these verses: When wilt thou put away this dotage from thy spright?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

So now unto solace I'll turn my heart, with forgetting, from      thee And washing my hands of thy thought, blot despair for      thee out of my spright.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

For love of her, my heart and entrails are a-fire And      sicknesses consume my body and my spright.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

Sleep, baby, sleep: And do not bleat like sheep, Or else the shepherd's dog will bite My naughty, little, crying spright: Sleep, baby, sleep.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn