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Extractions: OLAC Record oai:ota.ahds.ac.uk:1722 Metadata Title: Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus : a sonnet sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania Contributor: Bear, Richard S. Creator: Wroth, Mary, Lady, ca. ca Date: Format: Plain text ascii Format (IMT): text/plain Identifier: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/texts/1722.html Language: English Rights: Freely available for download. Subject: Poems Type: Electronic text Corpus
Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark By Stephen Roth Sometimes there sung sixeteene or twenty men together, having their master or moderator to keepe them in order Wroth, Mary, Lady. The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (1621) http://princehamlet.com/sixeteene.html
Extractions: Why heere in Denmarke: I have bin sixeteene heere, man and Boy thirty yeares. Every modern editor has rendered this "sixteeene" as "sexton" or (as in Q2) "sexten." But in fact "sixeteene" was a very common spelling for "sixteen" in Shakespeare's day (and an unheard-of spelling for "sexton"). Here are examples: White, John. His journals of the Virginia colony (1587) ...being strayed two miles from his companie, shotte at him in the water, where they gaue him sixeteene wounds with their arrowes... Nash, Thomas. Lenten Stuffe ...the wall to sixe, though sixeteene moath-eaten burgesse townes that haue... Porter, Henry. The two angry women of Abington ...for handsome men, Fifteene past, sixeteene, and seuenteene too, What, thought... Sharpham, Edward. Cvpid's whirligig ...Then I am lighter by sixeteene pound now then I was,... Healey, John. The Discovery of a New World (1609?). The third Booke. The Discouerie of Fooliana. Chap. 6, Fooliana the fond. ...circumference of the walles iust sixeteene gates, wherein (according to the...