disport

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The Maying or Disport of Chaucer is the most perfect specimen remaining, and its exact date can be ascertained from its colophon, which reads as follows:— Heir endis the maying and disport of Chaucer.

From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford

The Maidens' Song Young maidens, fair maidens, Friends and companions, Disport yourselves, maidens, Arouse yourselves, fair ones.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

These early productions, which survive only in fragments, included The Porteous of Noblenes, The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane, Sir Eglamoure of Artoys, The Maying or Disport of Chaucer, and several others.

From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford

Disport yourselves, soaring very high in the sunny heavens, or take your rest on our roofs.

From A Child's Book of Saints by Robinson, T. H. (Thomas Heath)

Disport, dis-pōrt′, v.t. and v.i. usually reflexive, to divert, amuse, enjoy one's self: to move in gaiety.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various