overplayed

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III To scythe, to sceptre, pen and hod—   Yea, sodden laborers dumb; To brains overplied, to feet that plod, In solace of the Truce of God   The Calumet has come!

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman

Lady Shaftesbury describes "the great, though unhappy, Handel, dejected, wan and dark, sitting by, not playing on, the harpsichord," and adds that "his light had been spent in being overplied in music's cause."

From Handel by Dent, Edward J.

The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

The Conscience, Friend, t' have lost them overplied In liberty's defense, my noble task; Of which all Europe rings from side to side.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied 10 In Liberty’s defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John