spright

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What e're thou be, Be'st thou her spright, or some divinitie, That in her shape thinks good to walk this grove, Pardon poor Perigot.

From The Faithful Shepherdess The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10). by Beaumont, Francis

For love of her, my heart and entrails are a-fire And      sicknesses consume my body and my spright.

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

I should conjecture that the very spright that “the green sour ringlets makes Whereof the ewe not bites” had manufactured it of the dew fallen on said sour ringlets.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

Rude scoffer of the seething outer strife, Unmeet to read her pure and simple spright, Deem, if thou wilt, such hours a waste of life, Empty of all delight!

From Rhyme? And Reason? by Carroll, Lewis

"That old Dan Geffrey, in whose gentle spright The pure well-head of poesie did dwell."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various