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“When,” sang Guenever, “When that the sonne, His daily course y-ronne, Is no more bright, I fear namore the night.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

And the gallant George Lisle carried his devotion to such a pitch as to sign himself always, "your Highness's most faithful affectionate servant, and obedient sonne."

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

Hereupon King William sent Clito Edgar with an armie into Scotland; by whose meanes Dunwald184 was dispoiled againe of his Kingdome, and Edgar sonne to King Malcolme aduanced to his fathers estate.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John

Robert his eldest sonne surnamed Courtcuise,125 by reason of the shortnesse of his thighs, succeeded him in the duchie of Normandie.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John

The same yeere in Whitsun-weeke, the King honoured his sonne Henrie with the order of Knighthood.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John