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Pompeie
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Middle English
Proper noun
enm proper noun 1
enm Pompey
enm Henry Bergen Lydgate’s Fall of Princes part III London Published for the Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press,Amen House, Warwick Square, E.C. (?a. 1439) 1924 643–644 692 https://archive.org/details/lydgatesfallofpr0000drhe_l7k0/page/692/mode/1up whan the werre dreedful & despitous / Gan atween Pompeie & Cesar Iulius.
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 pacienceAnd tok pite with conscience,So that upon his hihe deis[...]