10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOUNTENANCE»
Discover the use of
mountenance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mountenance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Spenser's Faerie Queene
Mote, must, might, Belg. mutt, oportet, Anglo-S. mor, may be. Somner. Chaucer
uses it frequently, and so does Spenser. Moulds, grows mouldy, B. ii. C. 3. St. 41,
Mountenance, a furlongs mountenance, the distance of a furlong, B. iii. C. 8.
Edmund Spenser, John Upton,
1758
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
MOUNTENANCE, or MOUNTANCE, *. The value, height, length, or distance of
any object. From the old French montance, of the same meaning : a word
belonging to the age of Chaucer, Gower, &c., but retained by Spenser. This said,
they ...
3
A Glossary; Or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names and ...
This said, they both a furlong's mountenance Betir'd their steeds, to run in even
race. F. Q., III, viii, 18. So also “ the mountenance of a shot” in III, xi, 20; and “ the
mountenance ofa flight,” that is, of a flight-arrow, or flight-shot, in V, vi, 36.
Chaucer ...
Robert Nares, James-Orchard Halliwell, Thomas II Wright,
1859
4
A glossary: or, Collection of words, phrases, names, and ...
This 6aid, tliey both a furlong's mountenance Ketir'4 their steeds, to ruu in even
rare. r. Q., Ill, Tin, 18. So also " the mountenance of a shot" iu III, xi, 20 ; and "the
mountenance of a flight," that is, of a flight-arrow, or flight-shot, in V, vi, 36.
Chaucer ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright,
1859
5
The Faerie queene (continued)
She had not rid the mountenance of a flight,h But that she saw there present in
her sight Those two false brethren on that perillous Bridge, On which Pollente
with Artegall did fight. Streight was the passage, like a ploughed ridge, That, if
two ...
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier,
1873
6
A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and ...
Hold thee to thy husbond, And thou shalt have all the mound! Rom. or the Seven
Saoes. Mountenance, the amount or value of a thing, •chiefly in reference to
space or distance. - ' Myght neither other harm done . The mountenance of an
hour.
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A glossary and etymological dictionary: of obsolete and ...
Mountenance, the amount or value of a thing, chiefly in reference to space or
distance. Myght neither other harm done The mountenance of an hour. A Lvtel
Gestx or K. Hon*. This said, they both a furlong's mountenance Retired, their
steeds to ...
8
The works of Edmund Spenser, ed. by J.P. Collier
She had not rid the mountenance of a flight,b But that she saw there present in
her sight Those two false brethren on that perillous Bridge, On which Pollente
with Artegall did fight. Streight was the passage, like a ploughed ridge, That, if
two ...
Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier,
1862
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
Rising up, a real, or mock term of heraldry; monlant, French. Still an heraldic term
in that language. — Hold up, ye sluts, Your aprons mountant, your not oathable,
Although I know you'll swear. Timon, iv. 3. Mountenance, or Mountance, s.
10
Faerie queene. book III-V
She had not rid the mountenance of a flight, But that she saw there present in her
sight Those two false brethren on that perillous bridge, On which Pollente with
Artegall did fight. Streight2 was the passage, like a ploughed ridge, That, if two ...
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard,
1842