forepast
- a variation of forepassed.
Example Sentences
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So let us, which this chaunge of weather vew, Chaunge eke our mynds, and former lives amend; The old yeares sinnes forepast let us eschew, And fly the faults with which we did offend.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund
While the reflection of thy forepast joyes, Renders thee double to thy present woes: Rather make up to thy new miseries, And meet the mischiefe that upon thee growes.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
But, father, now my joys forepast to tell, Do but revive the horrors of my hell.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
Why tell of grievances in days forepast, The vessels burnt on Eryx' distant shore, The tempest's monarch, and the raging blast Stirred in Æolia, and the winds' uproar, And Iris, heaven-sent messenger?
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
Well I remember, how, in days forepast, Old Priam came to Salamis, to view His sister's realms, Hesione's, and passed 181 To far Arcadia, chilled with many a Northern blast.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
