Thou lord (God) has done mare wondire than the herlot: he lerid to ga in a corde, thou makis men to ga abouen the watire.—Hampole, Psalm xxxix. 7 (ed. Bramley, 1884).
No man but he and thou and such other false harlots praiseth any such preaching.—Foxe, Book of Martyrs; Examination of William Thorpe.
About this time [A.D. 1264] a redress of certain sects was intended, among which one by name specially occurreth, and called the assembly of harlots,[16] a kind of people of a lewd disposition and uncivil.—Id., ib. vol. i. p. 435.
Harness. In French the difference between the ‘harness’ of a man and of a horse is expressed by a slight difference in the spelling, ‘harnois’ in one case, ‘harnais’ in the other. In English we only retain the word now in the second of these uses.
But when a stronger then he cometh apon hym and overcommeth him, he taketh from him his harnes wherin he trusted, and devideth his gooddes.—Luke xi. 22. Tyndale.
When Abram herde that his brother was taken, he harnessed his bonde-servauntes, and followed after them untill Dan.—Gen. xiv. Coverdale.
Those that sleep in Jesus shall God bring with Him, and harness them with the bright armour of life and immortality.—H. More, Grand Mystery of Godliness, b. iv. c. 18.
And all about the courtly stable
Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.
Milton, On the Nativity.