Doff

[…] Calidore perceiuing, thought it beſt / To chaunge the manner of his loftie looke; / And doffing his bright armes, himſelfe addreſt / In ſhepheards vveed, and in his hand he tooke, / In ſtead of ſteelehead ſpeare, a ſhepheards hooke, […]

Thou vveare a Lyons hide, doff it for ſhame, / And hang a Calues skin on thoſe recreant limbes.

You haue deceiu'd our truſt, / And made vs doffe our eaſie roabes of peace, / To cruſh our old limbs in vngentle ſteele, / This is not vvell my Lord, this is not vvell.

[T]hen made him d'off thoſe vveeds: / And ſent the Mightie vnto mightie deeds.

Upon a riſing bank I ſat adovvn, / Then doff'd my ſhoe, […]

The little vvarriors doff the targe and ſpear, […]

[J]uſt for fun's ſake, doff your coat and vvaiſtcoat, and ſvvop vvith Monſieur Grinagain here, and I'll vvarrant you'll not knovv yourſelf vvhich is vvhich.

Beside him ancient Angus stood, / Doffed his furred gown, and sable hood; […]

I pray thee to call my slaves to unarm me; and when thou thyself doffest those weapons of an ordinary lifeguard's-man, tell them they never shall above twice more enclose the limbs of one for whom fate has much more fitting garments in store.

Thou turnedst my mourning to dancing: / Thou doffedst my sackcloth, / And girdedst me round with gladness.

But in the falling afternoon return'd / The huge Earl Doorm with plunder to the hall. / His lusty spearmen follow'd him with noise: / Each hurling down a heap of things that rang / Against the pavement, cast his lance aside, / And doff'd his helm: […]

[A]t night, or in the rain, / He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn: […]

She had doffed the shirt and Bermuda-shorts which she had been wearing and was now dressed for her journey home.

The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.

[H]is courtesy to show, / He doffed, to Marmion bending low, / His broidered cap and plume.

Were there really seventy-three ways to doff one's hat? / There were! I'd rather suspected that

VVhy art thou troubled Herod? vvhat vaine feare / Thy blood-revolving Breſt to rage doth move? / Heavens King, vvho doffs himſelfe vveake fleſh to vveare, / Comes not to rule in vvrath, but ſerve in love.

Doff that stupid idea: it will never work.

[…] Romeo doffe thy name, / And for thy name vvhich is no part of thee, / Take all my ſelfe.

[H]ee (to requite their courteſie) oftentimes d'offeth off his ovvne Nature, and puts of theirs; as vvhen hee becomes as churliſh as a Hogge, or as drunke as a Sovv: […]

Novv is the time of helpe: your eye in Scotland / VVould create Soldiours, make our vvomen fight, / To doffe their dire diſtreſſes.

Thus death, vvho kings and tars deſpatches, / Tom's life hath vainly doff'd; / For though his body's under hatches, / His ſoul is gone aloft.

Power laid his rod of rule aside, / And Ceremony doffed his pride.

Euery day, thou dofftſt me, vvith ſome deuiſe Iago; / And rather, as it ſeemes to me, thou keepeſt from me, / All conueniency, then ſupplieſt me, vvith the leaſt / Aduantage of hope: […]

VVhen to one Goat, they reach that prickly vveed, / VVhich maketh all the reſt forbeare to feed; / Or ſtrevv Tods haires, or vvith their tailes do ſvveepe / The devvy graſſe, to d'off the ſimpler ſheepe; […]