dulcour

alternative dulcor · alternative dulcore · alternative dulcoure

1. obsoleteuncountableSweetness, agreeability, pleasantness; dulcitude, dulcity; suavitude, suavity.

   So dulcour was the ground in whom crist hym planted.

   15th century, All haile, lady, mother, and virgyn immaculate, line 20

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   The blak Pluto, thoch he war never ſo ſchairpe, Orpheus movit with ſueitnes of his harpe. The hardeſt hairt, be it aſſailyit oft, With ſueit meiknes it may be makin ſoft; And, namlie, be the dulcour feminine, Quhilk at all tyme the maiſt motive hes bene To gentil hairts, of onye thing alyve,

   1420–1500, G. H., Ane Elegie Translatit out of the Frenche, written by a Ladye upon Hir Husband’s Infidelitie, fifth verse

   Myn ignoraunce whome clouded hath eclyppes With thy pure bemes illumynyne all aboute Thy blessyd brethe let refleyre in my lyppes And with the dewe of heven thou them degoute So that my mouth may blowe an encense oute The redolent dulcour aromatyke

   a. 1451, John Lydgate, Court of Sapyence, introductory verses (1481 Caxton edition)

   So Crist, as he was ruthfully hamerd apon the Croce, Songe to his Fadire of heven in a full swete voice: So swete and faire was it, and full of all dulcoure, Þat it convertid thre thovzand men in þat ilk one houre; […]

   1450–1475, The Mirour of Mans Saluacioune, lines 151–154

   In-so-moche that maryners when they saile so farre on lofe as they may well know and apperceive the coost of that contrey, yet the dulcour and aire delicious vppon theym so […]

   1484–1490, Diodorus Siculus (author) and John Skelton (translator), Bibliotheca Historica, page unknown

   Thare is plentie of all plesouris perfyte, Euident brychtnes, but obscuritie; Withouttin dolour, dulcore and delyte; Withouttin rancour, perfyte Cheritie;

   1528, David Lyndsay, The Dreme of Schir David Lyndesay, of the Mont, Familiar Servitovr to Ovr Soverane Lord, Kyng Iames the Fyft, &c., lines 582–586