What is "heauens"

Usage examples of "heauens".

But if the heauens did his dayes enuie,And my short blisse maligne, yet mote they wellThus much afford me, ere that he did dieThat the dim eyes of my deare MarinellI mote haue closed, and him bed farewell,Sith other offices for mother meetThey would not graunt.

Yet weet ye well, that to a courage greatIt is no lesse beseeming well, to beareThe storme of fortunes frowne, or heauens threat,Then in the sunshine of her countenance cleareTimely to ioy, and carrie comely cheare.

But through high heauens grace, which fauour notThe wicked driftes of trayterous desynes,Gainst loiall Princes, all this cursed plot,Ere proofe it tooke, discouered was betymes,And th'actours won the meede meet for their crymes.

A wicked Spright yfraught with fawning guile,And faire resemblance aboue all the rest,Which with the Prince of Darknesse fell somewhile,From heauens blisse and euerlasting rest.

But foolish boy, what bootes thy seruice baceTo her, to whom the heauens do serue and sew?

Thence, to the Circle of the Moone she clambe,Where Cynthia raignes in euerlasting glory,To whose bright shining palace straight she came,All fairely deckt with heauens goodly story:Whose siluer gates (by which there sate an horyOld aged Sire, with hower-glasse in hand,Hight Tyme) she entred, were he liefe or sory:Ne staide till she the highest stage had scand,VVhere Cynthia did sit, that neuer still did stand.