Citations:souldiour

English citations of souldiour

Noun:

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• 1597, Gerard Legh, The Accedence of Armorie‎^[1], page 118:

  And by the way you touched a Prince, a Souldiour of Pallas, whoſe honour you ſeem much to allowe.

• 1608, William Shakespeare, The History of Henry the Fourth‎^[2], page 17:

  This villanous ſaltpeter ſhould be digde,
  Out of the bowels of the harmeles earth;
  VVhich many a good tall fellow had deſtroide
  So cowardly : and but for theſe vile guns,
  He would haue beene himſelfe a ſouldiour.

• 1615, Robert Armin, The Valiant VVelshman‎^[3], page 32:

  The Romane Eagle hangs her haggard wings,
  And all the Army’s fled;all by the ſtrength
  And oppoſition of one common man,
  In ſhew ,not farre ſuperiour to a Souldiour,
  That’s hyred with pay, or preſt vnto the field :
  But in his manly carryage,like the ſonne
  Of ſome vnconquered valiant Mermedon.