foison

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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 Hazlitt, William

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 Marsh, George P.

The king, dear son, so good and wise, Has gone from earth and gained the skies, Leaving to thee, her rightful lord, This rich wide land with foison stored.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

I have foison of this year's fleeces with me.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William

And where shall he find due foison If e'en bread-and-butter's poison?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir