Read full poem →luckless farce, 'Three Hours after Marriage'. When Gay's opera 'Polly'
was forbidden by the licenser, and Gay's patrons, the Duke and Duchess
of Queensberry, were driven from court for soliciting subscriptions for
Dictionary Entry
The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “duke”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And when rank widows purchase luscious nights,
Or when a duke to Jansen punts at White's,
Or city-heir in mortgage melts away;
Read full poem →which was really a compromise between ths
Church and the Duke of York. It was, he s; " "
premature ; the King was not in a declining
Read full poem →the Lord Mayor and Aldermen presenting
the King and Duke of York each with a
copy of his freedom.")
Read full poem →ried his Ladj, was chosen by the Duke of
Tcurky who was at hb dection.
Read full poem →have in tbe Stoan line was for a little whi
(i;sed on the Duke of Monmoutb. This hope,
however, was very slight ; his principal aim
Read full poem →Tempest, Macbeth, and Psyche : these efforts were,
Jiovvever, ineffectual. The duke’s theatre continued
Read full poem →Maid in the Mill, a comedy. This play, amongst others, has likewise
been revived by the Duke's House. The plot of Antonio, Ismenia, and
Aminta, is borrowed from Gerardo, a romance translated from the Spanish
Read full poem →sworn by the Lord Chamberlain as servants of the
crown; the former being styled the Duke of York’s
company, and the latter that of the king.
Read full poem →seas — occurs in The True
Tragedy of Richard, Duke of
York , whence Scakespeare