A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from their present

by Richard Chenevix Trench

We ourselves also were in times past unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts [δουλεύοντες ἐπιθυμίαις].—Tit. iii. Tyndale.

Come not within his danger by thy will.

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis.

My wages ben full streyt and eek ful smale;

My lord to me is hard and daungerous.

Chaucer, The Freres Tale (Morris, p. 250).

But nathelesse, for hys beauté

So fyers and daungerous was he,

That he nolde graunte hir askyng,

For weepyng, ne for faire praiyng.