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English
Noun
heauens
- genitive of heauen
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Hugh Singleton, , →OCLC, folio 46, verso: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.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 5: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:
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 252, column 2: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.
- plural of heauen