Swevens

And quoth he, “O rare! an but swevens prove true!” ❋ Unknown (2006)

And it keepeth him from strife and riot, from evil swevens from sorrows and from enchantments, and from fantasies and illusions of wicked spirits. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It is but dretching of swevens, said Sir Bors, for I doubt not Sir Launcelot aileth nothing but good. ❋ Unknown (2003)

So saying, the Queen at once summoned the tirewoman, who dressed and prepared the Lady Badr al-Budur, and presently she went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding night from swevens and nightmare, and said to him, "Be not severe with her for not answering thee." ❋ Naipaul, V.S. (1981)

God is gone from me, and will not hear me, neither by prophets, ne by swevens. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

And our Lord answered him not, ne by swevens ne by priests, ne by prophets. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

Or this: "O rare! an but swevens [FN#477] prove true," from ❋ Thomas Wright (1897)

_The Weird Lady_ is an astonishing piece for a lad of twenty-one -- it begins with, "The swevens came up round Harold the Earl, Like motes in the sunnès beam" -- and it ends with the stanza: ❋ Frederic Harrison (1877)

Rejoined she, "O my son, believe not in swevens which be mere imbroglios of sleep and lying phantasies;" and retorted saying, ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Budur; and presently she went in to the Sultan and assured him that their daughter had suffered during all her wedding-night from swevens and nightmare and said to him, "Be not severe with her for not answering thee." ❋ Anonymous (1855)

And quoth he, "O rare! an but swevens prove true!" [ ❋ Anonymous (1855)