And her gay streamers, and faire wauering sayles, With which the wanton wind was wont to play, To drowne with Billows of orewhelming woes.
Go cursed Cornelia rent thy wretched haire, Drowne blobred cheekes in seas of saltest teares.
It was my pow'rfull arte produc'd those monsters To drowne those monstrous executioners That should have wrought your wracke.
If you can, sett then Your foote upon my head & drowne me, your worst: Let me have Justice here.
In it is cherishing fyer which dryes in mee 5 Griefe which did drowne me: and halfe quench'd by it Are satirique fyres which urg'd me to have writt In skorne of all: for now I admyre thee.
Couldst thou shed A Sea of teares to drowne my resolution, He dyes; could this fond man lay at my foote The kingdomes of the earth, he dyes; he dyes Were he my sonne, my father.
Your next intentions be to drowne your selves: Dogge-leaches all!
Cast back some amorous glances on the cates, That heere are dressing by the hasty Fates, Nay stopp thy clowdy eyes, it is not good, To drowne thy selfe in this pure pearly flood.
Then let Him drinke, and drinke, and doe His worst To drowne the wantonnesse of His wild thirst.
Now sucke childe and sleepe childe, thy mothers owne ioy Her only sweete comfort, to drowne all annoy For beauty surpassing the azured skie I loue thee my darling, as ball of mine eye.
But since it will no better be, My teares shall neuer blin: To moist the earth in such degree, That I may drowne therein: That by my death all men may say, Lo weemen are as true as they.
It continued thus 4 hours, and so beat the Children's legs against the Bed-posts, that they were forced to arise, and sit up all night.
The next night, after they were gone, something about midnight came up the Stairs, and knockt at M.
But if the water come to him & drowne him; hee drownes not himselfe.
It must be Se offendendo, it cannot bee else: for heere lies the point; If I drowne my selfe wittingly, it argues an Act: and an Act hath three branches.
And the more pitty that great folke should haue countenance in this world to drowne or hang themselues, more then their euen Christian.
O my deere Gertrude, this, Like to a murdering Peece in many places, Giues me superfluous death.
Either be patient, and intreat me fayre, Or with the clamorous report of Warre, Thus will I drowne your exclamations Dut.
Drowne desperate sorrow in dead Edwards graue, And plant your ioyes in liuing Edwards Throne.
Giue me no helpe in Lamentation, I am not barren to bring forth complaints: All Springs reduce their currents to mine eyes, That I being gouern'd by the waterie Moone, May send forth plenteous teares to drowne the World.
Ile drowne more Saylers then the Mermaid shall, Ile slay more gazers then the Basiliske, Ile play the Orator as well as Nestor, Deceiue more slyly then Vlisses could, And like a Synon, take another Troy.
Come, thou art a cavilling companion: Because thou seest my heart is drown'd in love, Thou wilt drowne me too.
This sense is brought out more clearly in Cy's version, which is a paraphrase rather than a version: Wee after Gods mercy drowne our Soules againe.
And the more pitty that great folke should haue countenance in this world to drowne or hang themselues, more then their euen[3] Christian.
Page 226] for heere lies the point; If I drowne my selfe wittingly, it argues an Act: and an Act hath three branches.
But if the water come to him anddrowne him; hee drownes not himselfe.
Or to drowne my cloathes, and say I was stript Lo.
And how mightily some other times, wee drowne our gaine in teares, the great dignitie that his valour hath here acquir'd for him, shall at home be encountred with a shame as ample Cap.
Or wouldst thou drowne thy selfe, Put but a little water in a spoone, And it shall be as all the Ocean, Enough to stifle such a villaine vp.
One houres storme will drownethe fragrant meades, What, will whole months of teares thy Fathers eyes?
The ffolke was so ferd, that on flete were, All drede for to drowne with dryft of the se; And in perell were put all the proude kynges.
Some charge theyr bely with wyne in suche wyse That theyr legges skant can bere vp the body Here is a sort todrowne a hole nauy.
In the early part of the last century Deacon Drowne made a vane for Faneuil Hall, and one for the Province House, in Boston, which appear to have gained him great repute in his day in New England.
With the exception of Shem Drowne and Patience Wright, who modelled skilfully in wax, the sense for plastic art was altogether dormant in the country; while any progress in architecture, until in recent years, was hopelessly ignored.
The following letter to his nephew, Honorable Solomon Drowne of Providence, Rhode Island, is here printed by the kindness of Henry T.
The real Shem Drowne was not a wood-carver; no authority for such a statement can be found.
Possibly some other specimens of the handiwork of this good Deacon Shem Drowne are still in existence.
New York, who has many of the old papers of the Drowne families.
To our friend Drowne there came a brief season of excitement, kindled by love.
One thing is certain," muttered a Puritan of the old stamp, "Drowne has sold himself to the Devil; and doubtless this gay Captain Hunnewell is a party to the bargain.
We shall, therefore, take the opportunity to give the reader a few desirable particulars about Drowne himself.
Drowne looked at him with a visage that bore the traces of tears, but from which the light of imagination and sensibility, so recently illuminating it, had departed.
But day after day, though Drowne was seldom noticed in the act of working upon it, this rude form began to be developed until it became evident to all observers that a female figure was growing into mimic life.
Captain Hunnewell then took Drowne by the button, and communicated his wishes in so low a tone that it would be unmannerly to repeat what was evidently intended for the carver's private ear.
A fine piece of timber, indeed, which Drowne was known to have reserved for some work of especial dignity, was seen to be gradually assuming shape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drowne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
