See waxen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1540, Thomas [Cranmer], “A Prologue or Preface […]”, in The Byble in Englyshe, […] (Great Bible), [2nd edition], [London]: […] Edward whytchurche, signature [i], verso:",
"text": "And they that occupye them bene in moche ſauegarde, and hauen greate conſolacyon, and bene the readyer vnto all goodnes, the ſlower to all euyll, and yf they haue done any thing amyſe, anone euen by the ſyght of the bookes theyꝛ conſciences bene admoniſhed, and they waxen ſoꝛy ⁊ aſhamed of the facte.",
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"ref": "1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 35, verso:",
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"text": "and then the whole Quire hould their hippes, and loffe,\nand waxen in their myrth, and neeze, and ſweare\na merrier hower was neuer waſted there.",
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"text": "She is fair; and so is Julia that I love—\nThat I did love, for now my love is thaw’d;\nWhich, like a waxen image, ’gainst a fire,\nBears no impression of the thing it was.",
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