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c1563 Jyl of Breyntfords Test. sig. B.i^v Now hold your hand and make a stay there.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. viii. 82 b Trauailing both day and night without any rest or stay.

1586 Let. to Earl Leycester 6 She might by the stay thereof, procure the heauie displeasure of Almightie God.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Falchi, are staies when a horse doth rest vpon his hinder parts.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. ii. 51 Trippe away: make no stay . View more context for this quotation

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 262 Among whome there was now no hoe nor stay at all of their hands.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Josh. x. 12 (margin) Josue did thinke if the moone moued the sunne also must necessarily moue so he obtained the stay of both.

c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) vi. 2361 Yet fond man Runnes in this gulfe of sinne without all stay.

1633 G. Herbert Pulley in Temple ii When almost all was out, God made a stay.

a1639 J. Spottiswood Hist. Church Scotl. (1851) II. 62 It was night before they came thither..because of the stays she made by the way.

1641 J. Taylor Last Voy. sig. A6 With many stops, stayes, and taking leaves, wee gat to Oatlands at night.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 43 At last he commands a stay.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cx. 7 Annot.) 566/1 Souldiers..that are thirsty, but will not make stay at an Inne.

a1721 M. Prior Epigr. Bp. Atterbury i Without stop or stay,..make the best of your way.

1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 36 And up the craggy hill ascending Many a stop and stay he makes.

1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 186 We can plunge far and farther, and without stay or end, into the profundity of space.