pleasance
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I'll do your behest, and attend you in this pleasance to-night at twelve o' th' clock.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
"Could we but find that underground path whereby cousin Geoffrey came and went from the pleasance, old friend," said he, "why—we might play the Yellow Lady to purpose!"
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
Only the prospect of the Trent Valley and the Derbyshire foot-hills, visible beyond the pleasance, still pleased; and this view was vague and sad and distant.
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
Dame Fitzooth and the Squire followed later to the pleasance, and there one and all tried conclusions.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
For they of joy and pleasance to you sing That all the woods them answer, and theyr eccho ring.
From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin
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