a God's name
English
Phrase
a God's name
- Obsolete form of in God's name.
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “To His Readers, Hee Cares Not What They Be”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], OCLC 228714942:
- Euery man can ſay Bee to a Battledore, and write in prayſe of Vertue, and the ſeuen Liberall Sciences, threſh corne out of the full ſheaues, and fetch water out of the Thames; but out of drie ſtubble to make an after harueſt, and a plentifull croppe without ſowing, and wring iuice out of a flint, thats Pierce a Gods name, and the right tricke of a workman.
- 1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder:
- I fulfild his requeſt: and comming to him, dauncer quoth hee if thou daunce a Gods name God ſpeede thee: I cannot follow thee a foote farther, but adieu good dauncer, God ſpeed thee if thou daunce a Gods name.
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