The Lord smoot all the fyrst gotun in the loond of Egipte, fro the fyrst gotun of Pharao, that sat in his see, unto the fyrst gotun of the caitiff woman that was in prisoun.—Exod. xii. 29. Wiclif.
Not that same famous temple of Diane
Might match with this by many a degree;
Nor that which that wise King of Jewry framed
With endless cost to be the Almighty’s see.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, iv. 10, 30.
Seedsman. Between the ‘seedsman’ and the ‘sower’ there is now a useful distinction. The one sells the seed; the other scatters it in the furrow; but the distinction is comparatively modern.
The higher Nilus swells
The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,