How in the time of Charlemaynes raigne and many yeares after him, the Latine Poets wrote in rime.
Her iust renowne Chapter and head, Parts that maintain And woman head Her mayden raigne In te gri tie: In ho nour and with ve ri tie: Her roundnes stand Strengthen the state.
But clowdes of tois vntried, do cloake aspiring mindes, Which turne to raigne of late repent, by course of changed windes.
Which I haue thus Englished, It raines all night, early the shewes returne God and Caesar, do raigne and rule by turne.
How far he carried the other work is not certain; it survives in the fragment called The Beginning of the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth,[4] published after his death with The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt.
Leaving aside the methods of the chroniclers, he had taken the classical historians as his model in his First Part of the Life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII.
Both this play and the older play of The Troublesome Raigne of King John (upon which it is based, and which, in fact, it practically recasts) owe their origin to the same influences as the other historical plays mentioned.
The Troublesome Raigne of King John was composed for the Queen's company at, or near to, the date of the Spanish Armada, and at a period when religious animosities were acute.
It is not unlikely then that Shakespeare's recast of The Troublesome Raigne of King John into King John was made at the instigation of the Earl of Pembroke himself at the time of Perrot's arrest in 1591.
Shakespeare in recasting The Troublesome Raigne of King John did not endeavour to dramatise either the character or reign of that King, but purposely followed the story of the earlier dramatist, having the same personal point in view.
Take this aduise, that if thou depart in February or March from Lisbone, then thou shalt goe to beare with the land in nine degrees, because that from March forwards raigne most commonly Southeast and Southwest windes.
Queen Elizabeth's raigne and court, one of true gravity and prudence, not one that depends upon the grave cutt of his beard to be thought so.
The title is:--The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.
The last of the old editions is dated 1622:--The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.
The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.
The raigneof the kinges from the first foundation of the citie continued CCxliiii.
Doe not they describe the chaunge of Monarches, the ruine of houses, the destruction of one realme acquired, by the establishing and raigne of an other?
The same citie was vnder the gouernement of Strato, and mainteined by the puissaunce of Darius, who yelding more by force of the people, then by free wil, was thought vnworthy to raigne and rule there.
I beseech God that your maiestie may euermore raigne amonges vs.
Tarquinius Superbus, and his wicked wife, with all the race of his children and progenie, so that none of them, ne yet any others shall raigne anye longer in Rome.
For sooner is that torment auoyded at the first assault and pinch, than when it is suffred long to flame and raigne in that yelding portion of man, the heart, which once fed with the bayt of loue, is seldome or neuer loosed.
But since correction lyeth in those hands Which made the fault that we cannot correct, Put we our quarrell to the will of heauen, Who when they see the houres ripe on earth, Will raigne hot vengeance on offenders heads Dut.
Pope inserts after this line the following passage, adapted from the old play of The troublesome Raigne of King John: 'Aust.
Look at the ending of The Troublesome Raigne of King John, Part I.
In the raigne of king Henry the Sixth," says the MS.
Given under or Signet at or Towne of Newcastle ye xjth daie of Aprill 1603 in ye firste yeare of or raigne of England.
God confounde all sutche traytors and preserve hir hignes longe to live and raigne over us.
A briefe of the severall examinations taken before the Lord Bishop of London thes weeke, touching the booke entituled A veiwe of the long life andraigne of Henry the third, King of England.
A short view of the long life and raigne of Henry the Third, King of England.
The first part of the Life and Raigne of King Henry the IIII.
But I would breake an hundred othes to raigne [eab011] one yeare.
Confirme the crowne to me and to mine heires And thou shalt raigne in quiet whilst thou liu’st.
Sir Robert Shurland flourished in the raigneof King Edward the first.
John, King of England, The Troublesome Raigne of, attributed to Greene, 418.
The First Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus (Creede, 1594) has been reclaimed for Greene by Dr.
In 1599 he published The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IV.
Among his manuscripts was found The Life and Raigneof King Edward VI.
The third universall plauge was that which happened in the raigne of Justinian, and took its beginning in the yeare of Christ 532, and this also, as the former, is sayd to have descended from Æthiopia.
Given at Our Pallace of Westminister, the three and twentieth day of December, in the fifteenth yeere of Our Raigne of Great Britaine, France and Ireland.
Given at Our Mannour of Greenwich, the eighteenth day of May, in the seventeenth yeere of our Raigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the two and fiftieth.
Witnesse Our selfe at Westminster the sixth day of October, in the seventeenth yeere of Our Raigne of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland, the three and Fiftieth.
Given at Our Mannor of Greenwich, the ninth day of June, in the sixteenth yeere of Our Raigne of England, France and Ireland, and of Scotland the one and Fiftieth.
Given at Wansted the eleventh day of September, in the twelfth yeere of Our Raigne of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, 1614.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raigne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
