forswear

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Lips will cling, Forswear, and be forsaken, and men forget Where once our tombs were, and our children sing— So very lightly!—'Love runs into debt.'

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch

Here is a bravery now would make a man Forswear all gallantry! to fool away Your life thus in a humour!—

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

Forswear the palm's repose That spreadeth over all, And gables where the snows Of other pinions fall.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes

"Forswear me, then," quoth Liliokani, "forswear me, and come not hither again, and the anger of the all-god shall be appeased."

From The Holy Cross and Other Tales by Field, Eugene

Forswear not thyself, sweet youth; for I am not welcome.

From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George