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1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “October. Ægloga Decima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender:, London: Hugh Singleton,, →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender, London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger,, 1586, →OCLC:
Lordly love is such a tyranne fell.
Verb
tyran (third-person singular simple presenttyrans, present participletyranning, simple past and past participletyranned)
(Ancient Greece,historical,politics)tyrant(usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession)