spright

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What e're thou be, Be'st thou her spright, or some divinitie, That in her shape thinks good to walk this grove, Pardon poor Perigot.

From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Beaumont, Francis

"That old Dan Geffrey, in whose gentle spright The pure well-head of poesie did dwell."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various

Though God knows      thy greeting were sweet to my spright.

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

Those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look, And reade the sorrowes of my dying spright, And happy rymes! bath'd in the sacred brooke Of Helicon, whence she derived is.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

But first thou must a season fast and pray, Till from her bands the spright assoiled is, And have her strength recur'd from fraile infirmitis.

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