Sennight

I dranke not this sennet A draught to my pay; Elynour, I thé pray, Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]

Marry he trots hard vvith a yong maid, betvveen the contract of her marriage, and the day it is ſolemnizd: if the interim be but a ſennight, Times pace is ſo hard, that it ſeemes the length of ſeuen yeare.

And Mrs. Jevvkes tells me, every one names Thurſday come Sev'nnight for our Nuptials.

Sir Robert Pringle and John Hunter attended the meeting of Heritors intimated here on Sunday gone a se'enight.

We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight.

It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.

I was snowed up at a friend's house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter. I went for only one night, and could not get away till that very day se'nnight.

I was not bit enough to stand up to Edward personally, so I had to console the sufferer by allowing him to grease the wheels of the donkey-cart—a luscious treat that had been specially reserved for me, a sennight past, by the gardener's boy, for putting in a good word on his behalf with the new kitchen-maid.