"Straught" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wyll breke y^e scabbe. [f]And whan ye laye the clothe, wype y^e borde clene with a cloute / than [g]laye a cloth, a couche, it is called, take your felawe that one ende, & holde you that other ende, than drawe the clothe straught, the bought on y^e vtter edge / take the vtter parte, & hange it euen / than take the thyrde clothe, and lay y^e bought on the inner [Fol. A iii.b.] edge / and laye estat with the vpper parte halfe ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... loup on his milk-white steed, And straught away he rade, And she did kilt her petticoats, And after ...
— Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series • Frank Sidgwick |
