Information om | Engelska ordet THREESCORE

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• Epiphanius interpreted the fourscore (80) concubines as sects, who take the name of Christ without being truly matrimonial; the threescore queens as the generations from Adam to Jesus; the one dove as the true wife, the church; and the numberless virgins as all the philosophies unrelated to Christianity.
• Henry Peacham the younger, The More the Merrier: Containing: threescore and odde haad-lesse epigrams.
• From the dedication to Tobie Mathew, archbishop of York, it appears that the work was begun by the author when he was "threescore yeares old" at the desire, and carried on under the encouragement, of the archbishop.
• A century later, Anthony A Wood recorded a load of billet wood as costing 12s 6d; while extravagance consisted of "burning in one yeare threescore pounds worth of the choicest billet".

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