Zeale vs Eale - What's the difference?
zeale | eale |
* {{quote-book, year=c. 1660, author=, title=A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III, chapter=The Distracted Emperor, edition=
, passage=Therefore the love which thou protestest here Can be at best but fayn'd & beares more shewe Of treacherye then zeale . }} The yale (also "centicore", Latin "eale") is a mythical beast found in European mythology. Most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.
* Shakespeare, Hamlet (act 1 scene 4)
As nouns the difference between zeale and eale
is that zeale is an archaic spelling of lang=en while eale is the yale (also "centicore", Latin "eale") is a mythical beast found in European mythology. Most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.zeale
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eale
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- Hamlet:' As infinite as man may undergo--
Shall in the general censure take corruption
From that particular fault: the dram of ' eale
Doth all the noble substance of a doubt
To his own scandal.