_:b6636814 "c. 1366, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose, ll. 2607-10:"@en . _:b6636823 "1848 November \u2013 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 73, in The History of Pendennis.\u00A0[\u2026], London: Bradbury and Evans,\u00A0[\u2026], published 1849\u20131850, \u2192OCLC:"@en . _:b6636821 "1826 April 21, \u201CG.\u201D, \u201CThe Dukedom (from \u2018The News of Literature and Fashion, Science and Art.\u2019)\u201D, in The Spirit of the Times; or, Essence of the Periodicals; Concentrating Every Week, All that is Worthy (as Strictly Regarding the Time) of Being Preserved, from the Whole of Our Newspapers, Magazines, &c., volume I, number XXIX, London: Printed by Milne, Banfield, and Duckworth [...] for J. Scott, \u2192OCLC, page 436, column 1:"@en . _:b6636824 . _:b6636820 "\"That will I do blithely,\" replied the Pilgrim, \"and without guerdon; my oath, for a time, prohibits me from touching gold.\""@en . _:b6636813 . _:b6636817 "1590, Edmund Spenser, \u201CBook I, Canto XV\u201D, in The Faerie Queene.\u00A0[\u2026], London: [\u2026] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, \u2192OCLC:"@en . _:b6636817 "He hearkned, and did stay from further harmes,To gayne so goodly guerdon, as she spake [\u2026]"@en . _:b6636820 "1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance.\u00A0[\u2026], volume , Edinburgh: [\u2026] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC:"@en . _:b6636818 "1637, John Milton, \u201CLycidas\u201D, in Poems of Mr. John Milton,\u00A0[\u2026], London: [\u2026] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely,\u00A0[\u2026], published 1646, \u2192OCLC:"@en . _:b6636818 . _:b6636819 "Verse, like the laurel its immortal meed,Should be the guerdon of a noble deed"@en . _:b6636819 . _:b6636814 "For would she of her gentlenesse,Withouten more, me ones kesse,It were to me a great guerdoon.Release of all my passion [\u2026]"@en . _:b6636816 . _:b6636817 . _:b6636822 . _:b6636823 . _:b6636824 "1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter 15, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, \u2192OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, \u2192OCLC:"@en . _:b6636824 "Melanie might have given him his new coat but this sash was her gift, her own secret guerdon for him to wear into battle, something that would make him remember her every time he looked at it."@en . _:b6636815 "1567, Ovid, \u201CThe Seconde Booke\u201D, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis,\u00A0[\u2026], London: [\u2026] Willyam Seres\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, lines 361\u201363:"@en . _:b6636820 . _:b6636816 "Done to death by slanderous tonguesWas the Hero that here lies:Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,Gives her fame which never dies."@en . _:b6636813 "(now, _, literary) A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade."@en . _:b6636821 . _:b6636822 "1840, Robert Browning, Sordello, Book IV:"@en . _:b6636822 "\"Here, minstrel, drive bad thoughts away! Sing! Take\"My glove for guerdon!\""@en . _:b6636821 "I had some faint recollection of having a penny-piece in my waistcoat pocket, and, pleased with the service he had rendered to us, I gave it him as his guerdon. \"Thank ye, sir\u2014thank ye, sir\u2014thank ye, sir,\" he cried, and immediately returned to his station near the footway."@en . _:b6636814 . _:b6636819 "1782, William Cowper, \u201CCharity\u201D, in Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq.:"@en . _:b6636818 "Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise(That last infirmity of noble mind)To scorn delights and live laborious days;But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,And think to burst out into sudden blaze,Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears,And slits the thin-spun life."@en . . _:b6636815 . "1" . _:b6636815 "Is this the guerdon wherewithall ye quite my fruitfulnesse?Is this the honor that ye gave for my plenteousnesseAnd dutie done with true intent?"@en . _:b6636816 "1598\u20131599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, \u201CMuch Adoe about Nothing\u201D, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00A0[\u2026] (First Folio), London: [\u2026] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:"@en . _:b6636823 "You treat me like a slave, and bid me bow to my master! Is this the guerdon of a free maiden\u2014is this the price of a life\u2019s passion?"@en .