foison
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Earth's increase, foison plenty, Barns and gamers never empty; Vines with clust'ring bunches growing; Plants with goodly burden bowing; Spring come to you at the farthest, In the very end of harvest!
From The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance To feed my innocent people!
From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
When we were come to Cyprus," says Joinville, Histoire de Saint Louis, §§ 72, 73, "we found there greate foison of the Kynge's purveyance.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
There shall be dearth, and yet so gay the dearth That all the land shall look in holiday With mockery of foison; every field With splendour aflame.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
I have foison of this year's fleeces with me.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
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