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Who should have Priam's wealthy substance won, If watery Thetis had her child fordone?

From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Thy people, O self-deluder, thou'lt leave in mourning for thee;      Ay, all their lives they shall sorrow for thee, fordone and      slain.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by Payne, John

Now they were slumbering, fordone with toil, but their goodly weapons lay by them on the ground, all orderly, in three rows, and by each man his pair of steeds.

From The Iliad by Homer

Other pray'r hath he none Save this, "Sir, let me begone Whence I came, since fordone My expertise."

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

The ruffled fag fordone with care   And brooding, God would ease this pain: Him soothest thou and smoothest down   Till some content return again.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman