nourice

+The Story+ has no historical foundation, as far as can be discovered; and for once we have a traditional tale inculcating a moral, though we do not understand why the 'nourice' betrays Sir James to his enemies.

Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

Saying so, he wepte and syghed so piteously as a litle chylde threated by his mother the nourice.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

For I am not onely of kindred to thy mother by blood, but also by nourice, for wee both descended of the line of Plutarch, lay in one belly, sucked the same paps, and were brought up together in one house.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

Follow the counsell of your deare nourice Radegonde, whoe loueth you better than her owne soule.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

And as he was yet a child and in the keeping of his nourice, he was oft found leaving his bed and Iying on the bare ground.

The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

S. Benet was born of the province of Nursia, and was sent to Rome for to study, but in his infancy he left the schools and went into a desert, and his nourice, which tenderly loved him, went alway with him till they came to

The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

'In the meane space,' he continues, 'for the avoyding of idlenesse (the very mother and nourice of all vices) I have among other my travayles bene occupied aboute thys little Treatyse, wherein is sette forth the vilenesse and basenesse of worldely things whiche commonly withdrawe us from heavenly and spirituall matters.'

A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales 1875

But there is a woman in Toddrick's Wynd wha lost her bairn yestreen: she is threatened wi 'a milk-fever, and by my troth this little stranger will cure her; but, besides the nourice-fee, there is my trouble.'

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837

Robert, who gave the lands for ever, "as high up as heaven, and as low down as hell," to the individual named in the grant, which was witnessed "by Meg, my wife, and Marjory, my nourice."'

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 Various 1836

For I am not onely of kindred to thy mother by blood, but also by nourice, for wee both descended of the line of Plutarch, lay in one belly, sucked the same paps, and were brought up together in one house.

The Golden Asse 1566