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n. (obsolete form of tiding English)
Usage examples of "tyding".
Incontinently after the sorrowfull newes of the death of Lepolemus, came to the eares of all the family, but especially to Charites, who after she had heard such pitifull tydings, as a mad and raging woman, ran up and down the streets, crying and howling lamentably.
From whom returning sad and comfortlesse,As on the way together we did fare,We met that villen (God from him me blesse)That cursed wight, from whom I scapt whyleare,A man of hell, that cals himselfe Despaire:Who first vs greets, and after faire areedesOf tydings strange, and of aduentures rare:So creeping close, as Snake in hidden weedes,Inquireth of our states, and of our knightly deedes.
Vprose with hastie ioy, and feeble speedThat aged Sire, the Lord of all that land,And looked forth, to weet, if true indeedeThose tydings were, as he did vnderstand,Which whenas true by tryall he out fond,He bad to open wyde his brazen gate,Which long time had bene shut, and out of hondProclaymed ioy and peace through all his state.
Yet his owne loue, the noble Britomart,Scarse so conceiued in her iealous thought,What time sad tydings of his balefull smartIn womans bondage, Talus to her brought.
In that same conflict (woe is me) befellThis fatall chaunce, this dolefull accident,Whose heauy tydings now I haue to tell.
Tho to him yode,And him saluting, as beseemed best,Gan first inquire of tydings farre abrode.
The better part now of the lingring day,They traueild had, when as they farre espideA wearie wight forwandring by the way,And towards him they gan in hast to ride,To weet of newes, that did abroad betide,Or tydings of her knight of the Redcrosse.
In which he long time afterwards did leadAn happie life with grace and good accord,Fearlesse of fortunes chaunge or enuies dread,And eke all mindlesse of his owne deare LordThe noble Prince, who neuer heard one wordOf tydings, what did vnto him betide,Or what good fortune did to him afford,But through the endlesse world did wander wide,Him seeking euermore, yet no where him descride.