Pompeie

Middle English

Proper noun

Pompeie

  1. Alternative form of Pompey
    • (?a. 1439), Henry Bergen, editor, Lydgate’s Fall of Princes, part III, London: […] for the Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, […], published 1924, page 692, lines 643–644:
      […] whan the werre dreedful & despitous / Gan atween Pompeie & Cesar Iulius.
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    • John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
      • For I mi ladi love so,
        That thogh i were as was Pompeie,
        That al the world me wolde obei,
        [...]
      • I rede hou whilom that Pompeie,
        To whom that Rome moste obeie,
        [...]
        Pompeie sih his pacience
        And tok pite with conscience,
        So that upon his hihe deis
        [...]
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