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English
Proper noun
Daphnë
- Alternative spelling of Daphne
1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: [Comus], London: [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, , published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, lines 678–681:Nay, lady, sit. If I but wave this wand,
Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster,
And you a statue, or, as Daphnë was,
Root-bound, that fled Apollo.