foison

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Earth’s increase, foison plenty, Barns and garners never empty; Vines with clustering bunches growing; Plants with goodly burthen bowing; Spring come to you at the farthest 115 In the very end of harvest!

From The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

Now spring-tide showers its foison on the land, And lively hearts wend forth, a joyous band, For 'Isa's breath wakes the dead earth to life, And trees gleam white with flowers, like Musa's hand.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

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

He reads our earth, cloudscape, landscape, season, foison, man and beast of the field, with the same wistfulness which women who have known sorrow exhibit for children who have not.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Was he the only one who felt the challenge offered by the maddening fertility and foison of the hot sun-dazzled earth?

From Where the Blue Begins by Morley, Christopher