Daphnë

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See also: Daphne, Daphné, daphne, and daphné

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Daphnë

  1. Alternative spelling of Daphne
    • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: [] [Comus], London: [] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, [], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: [] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, lines 678–681:
      Nay, lady, sit. If I but wave this wand,
      Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster,
      And you a statue, or, as Daphnë was,
      Root-bound, that fled Apollo.