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softlier
adv. (context rare literary dated English) (en-comparative of: softly)
Usage examples of "softlier".
Whereat the man was a little stopt, and went a softlier pace: but not being willing to lose the day, he began again, and said:- LIND.
Tarry a little, summer, crowd not so All glory and gladness in so brief a day, Teach all thy dancing flowers a step more slow, And bid thy wild musicians softlier play, O hast thou thought, that like a madman spends, The longest summer ends.