Daphnë

See also: Daphne, Daphné, daphne, and daphné

English

Proper noun

Daphnë

1. Alternative spelling of Daphne
   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, lines 678–681:

     Nay, lady, sit. If I but wave this wand,
     Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster,
     And you a statue, or, as Daphnë was,
     Root-bound, that fled Apollo.