Unlesse the heavens them lift to lawful soveraintie.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, v. 5, 25.
He that is ashamed of base and simple attire, will be proud of gorgeous apparel, if he may get it.—Homilies; Against Excess of Apparel.
By this means we imitate the Lord Himself, who hath abased Himself to the lowest degree of baseness in this kind, emptying Himself (Phil. ii. 8), that he might be equal to them of greatest baseness.—Rogers, Naaman the Syrian, p. 461.
Battle. Used, not as now, of the hostile shock of armies; but often of the army itself; or sometimes in a more special sense, of the main body of the army, as distinguished from the van and rear.
Each battle sees the other’s umbered face.
Shakespeare, King Henry V. act iv. Chorus.
Richard led the vanguard of English; Duke Odo commanded in the main battle over his French; James of Auvergne brought on the Flemings and Brabanters in the rear.—Fuller, Holy War, b. iii. c. 11.
Where divine blessing leads up the van, and man’s valour brings up the battle, must not victory needs follow in the rear?—Id., A Pisgah Sight of Palestine, vol. i. p. 174.
Bawd. Not confined once to one sex only, but could have been applied to pandar and pandaress alike.