treadle

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"Nay," saith she, "if the dauncer will lend me a leash of his belles, I'le venter to treade one myle with him myself."

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

By shadie bankes of hell, By fieldes wheron the lonely Ghosts do treade, By my soule, and the soule of Antonie I you beseche, Euphron, of them haue care.

From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Herbert, Mary Sidney

“Nay,” saith she, “if the Dauncer will lend me a leash of his belles, Ile venter to treade one mile with him my selfe.”

From Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich by Dyce, Alexander

Oh, suffer me amonge so manye men To treade aright the traces of thy penne, And light my lamp at thy eternal flame!”

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey

They see that they must treade down the feare and desire of the fleshe.

From A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger by Martyr, Peter