heauens

English

Noun

heauens

1. genitive of heauen
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC, folio 46, verso:

     Why wayle we then? why weary we the Gods with playnts,
     As if ſome euill were to her betight?
     She raignes a goddeſſe now emong the ſaintes,
     That whilome was the ſaynt of ſhepheardes light:
     And is enſtalled nowe in heauens hight.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 5:

     A ſhadie groue not farr away they ſpide,
     That promiſt ayde the tempeſt to withſtand:
     Whoſe loftie trees yclad with ſommers pride,
     Did ſpred ſo broad, that heauens light did hide,
     Not perceable with power of any ſtarr:

   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 252, column 2:

     If you ſhall marrie
     You giue away this hand, and that is mine,
     You giue away heauens vowes, and thoſe are mine:
     You giue away my ſelfe, which is knowne mine:
     For I by vow am ſo embodied yours,
     That ſhe which marries you, muſt marrie me,
     Either both or none.

2. plural of heauen