sheepe - What does it mean?

Noun

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(obsolete)

* {{quote-book|year=1591|author=Edmund Spenser|title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage="Gladly," said he, "what ever such like paine Ye put on me, I will the same sustaine: But gladliest I of your fleecie sheepe' (Might it you please) would take on me the keep. 290 For ere that unto armes I me betooke, Unto my fathers '''sheepe''' I usde to looke, That yet the skill thereof I have not loste: Thereto right well this curdog, by my coste, (Meaning the Foxe,) will serve my ' sheepe to gather, And drive to follow after their belwether." }}

* {{quote-book|year=1598|author=Richard Hakluyt|title=The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=The grasse and herbe doth fat sheepe' in very short space, proued by English marchants which haue caried ' sheepe thither for fresh victuall and had them raised exceeding fat in lesse then three weekes. }}

* {{quote-book|year=1756|author=Prosper Paleologus Constantine|title=Sir John Constantine|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=Nay, Number it selfe in Armies importeth not much where the People is of weake courage: For (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a Wolfe, how many the sheepe be." }}

* {{quote-book|year=1850|author=Various|title=Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=Hen. VIII. (Black letter), in Bodleian Library, occurs:-- "There was two men of _Gottam , and the one of them was going to the market to Nottingham to buy sheepe , and the other came from the market; and both met together upon Nottingham bridge. }}

* {{quote-book|year=1594|author=Richard Barnfield|title=The Affectionate Shepherd|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=And when th'art wearie of thy keeping sheepe Upon a lovely downe, to please thy minde, Ile give thee fine ruffe-footed doves to keepe, And pretie pidgeons of another kinde: A robbin-redbrest shall thy minstrell bee, Chirping thee sweet and pleasant melodie. }}

* {{quote-book|year=1880|author=Richard Jefferies|title=Round About a Great Estate|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=So, too, He leared his sheepe as he him list When he would whistle in his fist; and the shepherd still guides and encourages his sheep by whistling. }}

* {{quote-book|year=1905|author=George Chapman|title=Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=They will make a sheepe valiant, a lion fearefull. }}

* {{quote-book|year=1504|author=Nicholas Udall|title=Roister Doister|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=And haue ye cattell too? and sheepe too? }}