Traunce

n. & v.1.See Trance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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for this indifference, though Erasmus-like, I am hung betwixt Heaven and Hell & renounced of all Communions...." Collop echoes Richard Harvey who remembers Celio Secondo Curione's Pasquine in a Traunce: "call me not John Indifferent ...
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This wofull man rose up in all his paine, And departid with wepyng countinaunce, His wofull herte almoste to braste in twaine, Full like to die, walkyng forthe in a traunce, And sayid, Deth, come forthe, thy self avaunce, Or that rayne herte forget his propertie, And make shortir all this wofull penaunce, Of my pore life, full of adversitie....
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