dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door. bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for &c (offer) 763; publish the banns.

The council hath long ago forbidden the banns.

marry, join, handfast^; couple &c (unit) 43; tie the nuptial knot; give away, give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c (promise) 768; publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church.

Mr. Endymion chose to take me on the hop and hurry up the banns, and I'm going to accommodate myself to the man.

[Footnote 63: Two theatrical companies: the Duke's and the King's Housesboth full of every species of abominationat last united in 1686, and the most profligate poet of the age was fitly chosen to proclaim the banns.]

Could he take away her dishonesty without bouncing up the banns of matrimony?

"Too late for what, may I ask?" "Everything except stopping the banns.

" There was no delay in crying the banns, and the lovers went about as in a dream of rapture.

But the Greeks carried their police regulation into elfland; they vetoed not the actual adulteries of the earth but the wild weddings of ideas, and forbade the banns of thought.