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

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

We have also spright, impregnable, and other misspelt words, for which it is difficult to assign a reason.

From Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

"Stand back, saucy spright," cried one of the men; "you cannot pass here."

From Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

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