See sonne in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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21
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"ref": "1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto, lines 7-9:",
"text": "[…]and the yonge sonne / Hath in the ram his half cours yronne / And smale foweles maken melodye[…]",
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69
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"english": "And an important sign appeared in the sky: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon underneath her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 12:1, folio 121, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "⁊ a greet ſıgne apperıde ĩ heuene / a wõman cloþıd wıþ þe ſũne · ⁊ þe moone vndur hır feet ⁊ · ĩ þe heed of hır a coꝛoũ of twelue ſterrıs",
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58,
62
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66,
69
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"text": "⁊ a greet ſıgne apperıde ĩ heuene / a wõman cloþıd wıþ þe ſũne · ⁊ þe moone vndur hır feet ⁊ · ĩ þe heed of hır a coꝛoũ of twelue ſterrıs",
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