Citations:guideress

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  • a. 1594, anonymous author, “A Pleasant Conceited History, Called The Taming of a Shrew”, in Barry Gaines, Margaret Maurer, editor, Three Shrew Plays: Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; with The Anonymous The Taming of a Shrew, and Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed, published 2010, scene 11, page 36:
    Could he install me empress of the world, / Or make me queen and guideress of the heavens, / Yet I would not exchange thy love for his.
  • c. 1593, Thomas Kyd, Soliman and Perseda, lines 250-1:
    Ah, fickle and blind guideress of the world, / What pleasure hast thou in my misery?
  • 1703, anonymous author, translated by Fernández, Jerónimo, The honour of chivalry: or, The famous and delectable history of Don Bellianis of Greece:
    May it be the lavish-giver of unconstant happiness, the blind guidress; of the round volving wheeled chance