sweetful

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1. uncommonCharacterised by sweetness; delightful; charming.

   Vnder a Popler Themis did repoſe her, / And from a brier a ſweetfull branch did plucke:[…]

   1589, Thomas Lodge, “The most pithie and pleasant Historie of Glaucus and Silla”, in Scillaes Metamorphosis: Enterlaced with the Vnfortunate Loue of Glaucus, VVhereunto Is Annexed the Delectable Discourse of the Discontented Satyre: with Sundrie Other Most Absolute Poems and Sonnets. Contayning the Detestable Tyrannie of Disdaine, and Comicall Triumph of Constancie: Verie Fit for Young Courtiers to Peruse, and Coy Dames to Remember., London: […] Richard Ihones, […]

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   No Friend attending, ſave the warbling Bird / Of Night, which kindly tun’d her melancholy Song / With ſweetful Mone, in Pity to her Fate.

   1739, [Anthony Brown], The Fatal Retirement. A Tragedy. As It Was Intended to Have Been Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty’s Servants. To the Impartial Reader., London: […] T. Osborn […], page 5

   For Maſter Billy Thrumm being juſt out of his Time, his Mamma was reſolved to have a Rout to celebrate his Freedom; and her Spouſe, Mr. Churchwarden, dealing in Rabbit Skins, and the Warehouſe at that Time being empty, ſhe inſiſted upon having the Card-tables ſpread there; becauſe, ſhe ſaid, it was a ſweetfuller Place, than where Madam Hipſhott the Overſeer’s Wife kept her’s;

   1761, George Alexander Stevens, chapter V, in Tom Fool’s History: or Modern Taste Displayed, the second edition, volume I, London: […] T. Waller, […], page 21

   This sweetful day will all be lost[…]Come lovley Jenny haste away / Quickly come make no delay / Come & view these sweetful flowers / Nurs’d by Aprils softest showers / Haste & greet their happy shade / Soon they’l wither soon they’l fade / Then haste my dearest haste away / Come & taste the sweets of May

   1804–1822, John Clare, The Early Poems of John Clare, 1804–1822, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1989, →ISBN, pages 72 and 461

   I begin to read two or three chapters for a time; but the sweetful words draw me to read about eight or nine chapters.

   1821 January 9, Ayyavoo’s letter, quotee, “Appendix XII. Extracts from the Journals and Reports of John Devasagayam, Relative to the School Establishments, at Tranquebar, for the Year 1821.”, in Proceedings of the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East. Twenty-Second Year. 1821—1822. […], London: […] R. Watts, […]. Published for the Society, by L. B. Seeley, […]; and J. Hatchard and Son, […], published 1822, page 296

   Of sweetful tones would you deprive the lute?[…]The seasons meet her on this sweetful land, / Persuasion crowns her on this Paphian strand;

   1844, Agnostos [pseudonym; Sydney Whiting], edited by Douglas [William] Jerrold, The Illuminated Magazine, volume III (May to October), London: […] the Proprietors, […], pages 70 (A Defence for Poets) and 231 (The Birth of Venus)