What is "attone"

Usage examples of "attone".

So bene they both attone, and doen vpreareTheir beuers bright, each other for to greete.

Whom when the good Sir Guyon did behold,His hart gan wexe as starke, as marble stone,And his fresh bloud did frieze with fearefull cold,That all his senses seemd bereft attone:At last his mightie ghost gan deepe to grone,As Lyon grudging in his great disdaine,Mournes inwardly, and makes to himselfe mone:Till ruth and fraile affection did constraine,His stout courage to stoupe, and shew his inward paine.

Perdy me leuer were to weeten that,(Said he) then ransome of the richest knight,Or all the good that euer yet I gat:But froward fortune, and too forward NightSuch happinesse did, maulgre, to me spight,And fro me reft both life and light attone.

Vnto his lofty steede he clombe anone,And forth vpon his former voiage fared,And with him eke that aged Squire attone.

The warlike Dame was on her part assaid,Of Claribell and Blandamour attone.

But the bold knight no whit thereat dismayd,But catching vp in hand a ragged stone,Which lay thereby (so fortune him did ayde)Vpon him ran, and thrust it all attoneInto his gaping throte, that made him groneAnd gaspe for breath, that he nigh choked was,Being vnable to digest that bone.

But I desire Your Lordship not to be deceived: We never will admit of these Excuses, nor will allow Your private Liberality, as great as it is, to attone for Your excessive publick thrift.

And especially that whatever mistakes on either hand, have been fallen into, either by the body of this people, or any order of men, referring to the late tragedy raised among us by Satan and his Instruments, through the awful Judgment of God: He would humble us therefore, and pardon all the errors of his Servants and People, that desire to love his Name, and be attoned to his land.