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QUEEN.<br />

werlde ben, c 1386 CHAUCER Man ofLaw's T. 63, I . .wolde<br />

she were of all Europe the < queene. 1440 Generydes 17<br />

His doughter quene of Inde. 1562 WINJET Cert. Tractates<br />

Wks. 1888 I. 2 The maist excellent and gracius Souerane,<br />

Marie Quene of Scottis. 1606 SHAKS. Ant, $ Cl. m. vi. ii<br />

He . . made her Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia, absolute<br />

Queene. 1713-4 POPE Rape Lock in. 13 One speaks the<br />

glory of the British Queen. 1770 Ann. Reg, 102 Died<br />

lately, at her hut at Norwood, Bridget, the Oueen of the<br />

Gipseys. 1818 CRUISE Digest (ed. 2) III. 200 Her Majesty<br />

or her successors, kings or queens of the realm. 1866<br />

BLACKMORE Cradock Nowell xxx, If by the 'Queen of<br />

Spain' you mean that common brown little butterfly.<br />

o. transf, A female whose rank or pre-eminence<br />

is comparable to that of a queen.<br />

a. Applied to the Virgin Mary, esp.<br />

in phr. as<br />

Queen of glory; grace, heaven,paradise , ivomen, etc.<br />

a 900 CVNEWUU-' Christ 276 Seo claeneste cwen ofer eorban.<br />

_ 33 i"<br />

O. E. Misc. 195 Leuedi quene of parays. c 1375 Sc. Leg.<br />

Saints xxiv. (Alexis) 26 pat he in weding borne was of<br />

mary, |t>e quene of grace, c 1410 HOCCLEVK Mother ofCod<br />

2 O blisful queene, of queenes Emperice. ("1470 HENRY<br />

Wallace i. 261 Quhen scno him saw scho thankit hewynnis<br />

queyn. 1500-20 DUNBAR Poems Ixxxv. 37 Haile, qwene<br />

serene ! Haile, mosteamene! i6o4E.G[KiHSTONE]Z>'^f(j/a'j<br />

Hist. Indies vn. xxvii. 582 The favour which the Queene<br />

of glorie did to our men. 1798 COLERIDGE Anc. Mar. v. i,<br />

To Mary-queen the praise be yeven. 1840 I. TAYLOR Ancient<br />

Chr. (1842) 1 1. ii. 1 60 Our Queen, though the Queen of heaven<br />

as well as of earth [etc.].<br />

b. Applied to the goddesses of ancient religions<br />

or mythologies also in ; phrases, as queen ofheaven t<br />

love, marriage, etc.<br />

1381 WVCLIF Jer. viL 18 That thei make sweete cakis to<br />

the quen of heuene. 1508 DUNBAR Gold. Targe 73 Thare<br />

saw I Nature, and [als dame] Venus quene. 1500-90<br />

Poems xlviii. 63 Haill princes Natur, haill Venus luvis quene.<br />

1591 SHAKS. yen, Ad.

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