Definition of "heauens"
heauens
noun
Quotations
Why wayle we then? why weary we the Gods with playnts, As if ſome euill were to her betight? She raignes a goddeſſe now emong the ſaintes, That whilome was the ſaynt of ſhepheardes light: And is enſtalled nowe in heauens hight.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, folio 46, verso
A ſhadie groue not farr away they ſpide, That promiſt ayde the tempeſt to withſtand: Whoſe loftie trees yclad with ſommers pride, Did ſpred ſo broad, that heauens light did hide, Not perceable with power of any ſtarr:
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 5
If you ſhall marrie You giue away this hand, and that is mine, You giue away heauens vowes, and thoſe are mine: You giue away my ſelfe, which is knowne mine: For I by vow am ſo embodied yours, That ſhe which marries you, muſt marrie me, Either both or none.
c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii], page 252, column 2