spright

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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

His chearefull wordes reviv'd her chearelesse spright, So forth they went, the Dwarfe them guiding ever right.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

Hang up your bloody colours in the air, Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare; Your merry mates cheer, with a lusty bold spright.

From The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by Dryden, John

I hope for the succour of Him in whose hand Is the Kingdom, the      Maker of body and spright.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II 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