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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 6957 Daphne, closed vnder rinde, Þoruȝ Tellus myȝt, of þe laurer tre.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 783 Tellus and Imo be dullyd of ther cheere.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. xii. 202 And thou, Tellus, mast nobill God of erd, Hald fast the speris hed by ȝour werd.

1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. sig. viii Like Tellus with her fertile fruites, when Autumne doth appeare.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 149 Neptunes salt wash, and Tellus orb'd ground. View more context for this quotation

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xv. 65 I will rob Tellus of her weede. View more context for this quotation

a1746 M. Leapor Poems upon Several Occasions (1751) II. 72 Old Tellus' Head was newly crown'd with Flow'rs.

1767 C. Smart tr. Horace Epistles ii. i, in tr. Horace Wks. (new ed.) IV. 189 Our ancient rustics..The goddess Tellus with a swine, Sylvanus with the milk and kine, All worshipp'd.

1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 108 Tellus feels his forehead's cumbrous load.

1882 G. Rawlinson Relig. Anc. World 249 Ops, like Ceres, is sometimes confounded with Tellus, but the three goddesses were to the Latin mind distinct, Tellus being a personification of the earth itself.

1962 F. M. Heichelheim & C. A. Yeo Hist. Rom. People iv. 51 In honor of Tellus or Mother Earth, the primitive goddess of fruitfulness of animals as well as of crops, the early Romans twice annually celebrated the festival of the Fordicidia.

1992 R. Harris Fatherland i. 29 The pillars supporting the frontage were..flanked at either end by golden statues of Atlas and Tellus, bearing on their shoulders spheres depicting the heavens and the earth.

1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 86^v The Mountaines were not raysde so quick but downe they fell as fast: And Giants in a cluster thick to Tellus fell at last.

1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake (1699) 28 The Spring swell'd by some smoaking Shower, That teeming Clouds on Tellus surface poure.

1738 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 544/2 Reason, like Sol to Tellus kind, Ripens the products of the mind.

1830 S. T. Coleridge On Constit. Church & State 60 The preacher..understood by the term [sc. ‘the world’] the earth which turns round with us, the planet Tellus of the astronomers.

1858 W. Smith Thorndale (ed. 2) ii. iii. 94 The fate of the inhabitants of Jupiter, and the fate of the inhabitants of Tellus, when Tellus shall be peopled by an altered and a wiser race, are problems very much of the same character.

1902 Eng. Mechanic 15 Aug. 13/2 I dare advance that, after her separation from the sun, our own planet Tellus was in the same condition as Sol is now in.

1958 E. E. Smith Skylark of Space (rev. ed.) xviii. 121 Greetings, oh guests from Tellus! I feel more like myself, now that I am again in my trappings and have my weapons at my side.

1991 S. Hood Den of Foxes 50 What is becoming clearer to me is the probable state of Tellus in the year we are talking of: 2087.