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Battaile means Obsolete spelling of battle..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Obsolete spelling of battle..
1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book 10, xii Withouten battaile, fight, or stroke at all, / Ev'n at noon day I will you safely guide.
Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne, And clash their shields, and shake their swords on hy, […]
Against his foes in battaile shewing force, And after fight in victorie remorse.
1. When ſhall we three meet againe? / In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? / 2. When the Hurly-burley's done, / When the Battaile's loſt, and wonne.
Thus Ahab seduced by his false prophets descendeth into the battaile, and is slaine (contemning the words of Michaiah) in[m] whose mouthes the diuell was a lying spirit, who sent of the Lord, perswaded him and prevailed, 1.
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Battaile means Obsolete spelling of battle..
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1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book 10, xii Withouten battaile, fight, or stroke at all, / Ev'n at noon day I will you safely guide.
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