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- obsoletepluralsingularObsolete spelling of news.
This newes is old enough, yet it is euerie daies newes.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 74, column 23 more examples
Theſe newes (my Lords) may cheere our drooping ſpirits: ’Tis said, the ſtout Pariſians do reuolt, And turne againe vnto the warlike French.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 115, column 1This ſtrange vnwelcome and vnhappie newes, Of theſe vnnaturall Rebels and vniuſt, That threaten wracke vnto this wretched Land, Aye me affrights my womans mazed minde, Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, […]
1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act IWith what joy theſe newes were well-commed, when they came to Carthage, we may eaſily conjecture; […]
1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of the first Punicke Warre”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 5th book, §. VIII (The Romans preuaile in Africk. Atilivs the Consull propoundeth intolerable conditions of peace to the Carthaginians. He is vtterly beaten, and made prisoner.), page 356
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