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down and dale
† Coupled with dale in various phrases to refer to valleys and hills, or low land and upland. Frequently in down and dale. Cf. hill and dale at dale n.1 1a. Obsolete.
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OE Homily: De Sancto Iohanne (Corpus Cambr. 198) in Englische Studien (1885) 8 477 Paradisus is eall efenlang and efenbrad; nis ðær naðor ne dæl ne dune.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 13264 Nohht i dale. ne upp o dun.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10408 Hundes..þene vox driueð ȝeond dales & ȝeond dunes [c1300 Otho dounes].
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4038 Wendeþ forþ..Ouer þe dounes & þe dales.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22532 Al þis werld bath dale and dune..Þe dals up-rise, þe fells dun fall.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Sir Thopas (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 85 By dale and eek by downe.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 265 Þou shalt go by downys and by dalys.
1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. A.v All is at my hande werke both by downe & by dale.
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. i. 27 The tame-lesse steed could well his wagon wield, Through downes and dales of the vneuen field.
1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgrimage sig. C3v He sent his man with me, o're Dale and Downe.
1755 Gill Morice xvii. 11 The Lady sat on castil wa, Beheld baith dale and doun.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 37 By dale and down, We dwell afar from tower and town.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clare in Poems (new ed.) II. 198 She went by dale, and she went by down, With a single rose in her hair.
1897 L. P. Johnson Ireland 34 To me the tumult of the street Is no less music, than the sweet Surge of the wind among the wheat, By dale or down.
1929 G. R. Woodward Story of Arion & Dolphin 8 But as he fared o'er down or dale Whene'er he struck the magick wire Above the sound-board of his lyre.
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