See joyance on Wiktionary
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"text": "For though like withered tree, that wanteth iuyce, / She old and crooked were, yet now of late, / As freſh and fragrant as the floure deluce, / She was become, by chaunge of her eſtate, / And made full goodly ioyance to her new found mate.",
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"text": "There with great ioyance and with gladſome glee, / Of faire Pœana I receiued was, / And oft imbraſt, as if that I were hee, / And with kind words accoyd, vowing great loue to mee.",
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"text": "In ſuch luxurious plentie of all pleaſure, / It ſeem’d a ſecond paradiſe to gheſſe, / So lauiſhly enricht with natures threaſure, / That if the happie ſoules, which doe poſſeſſe / Th’Elyſian fields, and liue in laſting bleſſe, / Should happen this with liuing eye to ſee, / They ſoone would loath their leſſer happineſſe, / And wiſh to life return’d againe to bee, / That in this ioyous place they mote haue ioyance free.",
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