spright

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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

Then Abou Musab came forward and recited these verses: When wilt thou put away this dotage from thy spright?

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

His chearefull wordes reviv'd her chearelesse spright, So forth they went, the Dwarfe them guiding ever right.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

But first thou must a season fast and pray, Till from her bands the spright assoiled is, And have her strength recur'd from fraile infirmitis.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

This is no common man with whom I fight, And if he be, he is of wond'rous spright.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various