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 Shakespeare, William

To this joyous gem Capricorn has added a whole foison of annotations.

From On Something by Belloc, Hilaire

Gray Pelican, poised where yon broad shallows shine, Know'st thou, that finny foison all is mine In the bag below thy beak — yet thine, not less?

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Lanier, Sidney

Now burgeon, O Hybla! put forth and abound, till     50 Proserpina's field, To the foison thy lap overflowing its laurel of Sicily yield.

From The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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