twayne

W. de W. 1531 163b, Yf a psalme scape ony persone, or a lesson, or else yf they omyt one verse or twayne.

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Which also the Thebans dydde vse, and but they twayne, no moe.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

And twayne of hamlettes [186] to thee and thie heyres.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Thatt splytte eftsoons his cristed helm in twayne;

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

And the vowell is alwayes more easily deliuered then the consonant: and of consonants, the liquide more than the mute, & a single consonant more then a double, and one more then twayne coupled together: all which points were obserued by the Greekes and Latines, and allowed for _maximes_ in versifying.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Mie stede wydhoute wylle deftelie beere us twayne.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Tyde lyfe, tyde deathe, ytte shall behoulde us twayne.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

To leggen [49] the sadde happe of twayne so fayre,

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

To se his s_er_vaunttes abowte hy_m_ presente. havnte no halke, for the_n_ ye will [e] be shente; 124 lette maner_e_ & mesure be yo_u_r gydes twayne; so shall [e] ye best please, I dare savely sayne.

Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

When it was discovered that the knight was sir Cauline, the lady "fette a sighe, that burst her gentle hearte in twayne."

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853