Pompeie

Middle English

Proper noun

Pompeie

1. Alternative form of Pompey
   • (?a. 1439), Henry Bergen, editor, Lydgate’s Fall of Princes, part III, London: […] for the Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, […], published 1924, page 692, lines 643–644:

     […] whan the werre dreedful & despitous / Gan atween Pompeie & Cesar Iulius.

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   • John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
     • For I mi ladi love so,
       That thogh i were as was Pompeie,
       That al the world me wolde obei,
       [...]
     • I rede hou whilom that Pompeie,
       To whom that Rome moste obeie,
       [...]
       Pompeie sih his pacience
       And tok pite with conscience,
       So that upon his hihe deis
       [...]