What is "dolours"

Usage examples of "dolours".

Well has it been said that whosoever prays to her with faith and constancy can never be lost or cast away: and fitly is she too a haven of refuge for the afflicted because of the seven dolours which transpierced her own heart.

Therewith an hollow, dreary, murmuring voyceThese piteous plaints and dolours did resound.

She was right ioyous of her iust request,And taking by the hand that Faeries sonne,Gan him instruct in euery good behest,Of loue, and righteousnesse, and well to donne,And wrath, and hatred warely to shonne,That drew on men Gods hatred, and his wrath,And many soules in dolours had fordonne:In which when him she well instructed hath,From thence to heauen she teacheth him the ready path.

Not that great Champion of the antique world,Whom famous Poetes verse so much doth vaunt,And hath for twelue huge labours high extold,So many furies and sharpe fits did haunt,When him the poysoned garment did enchauntWith Centaures bloud, and bloudie verses charm'd,As did this knight twelue thousand dolours daunt,Whom fyrie steele now burnt, that earst him arm'd,That erst him goodly arm'd, now most of all him harm'd.