# milke
## English
### Noun

milke (countable and uncountable, plural milkes)
* Obsolete spelling of milk.
** c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC,:O ſiſters three, come, come, to mee, With hands as pale as milke, Lay them in gore, ſince you haue ſhore With ſheeres, his threede of ſilke.
** 1612, Thomas Cogan, The Hauen of Health, page 157:Alſo with it is made together with ſweet Milke, a kind of poſſets, which is called a poſſet of two Milkes, oꝛ a ſowꝛe milke poſſet, which is very temperate and cooling dꝛinke, and is vſed in hot diſeaſes with great ſucceſſe, and doth coole moꝛe than any other dꝛink, as is pꝛooued daily in Lankaſhire, where it is moſt vſuall.
** 1618, Nicholas Breton, Inedited Tracts, Burt Franklin, page 183:Againe we haue hay in the barne, horſes in the ſtable, oxen in the ſtall, ſheepe in the pen, hogges in the ſtie, come in the garner, cheeſe in the loft, milke in the dairy, creame in the pot, butter in the dim, ale in the tub, and Aqua vitæ in the bottle, beefe in the brine, brawne in the ſowce, and bacon in the roofe, hearbs in the garden, and water at our doores, whole cloths to our backes, and ſome money in our cophers, and hauing all this, if we ſerue God withall, what in Gods name can we deſire to haue more ?
** 1635, James Guillimeau [i.e., Jacques Guillemeau], “Of Gripings and Fretting in the Belly, which Trouble Little Children”, in The Nvrsing of Children. Wherein is Set Downe the Ordering and Government of Them from Their Birth. Together with the Meanes to Helpe and Free Them from All Such Diseases as may Happen unto Them. Written in French by Iames Guillimeau, the French Kings Chirurgion in Ordinary, London: Printed by Anne Griffin, for Ioyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker; published in Child-birth, or, The Happy Delivery of VVomen. VVherein is Set Downe the Government of Women. In the Time of Their Breeding Childe: Of Their Travaile, both Naturall and Contrary to Nature: And of Their Lying in. Together with the Diseases, which Happen to VVomen in Those Times, and the Meanes to Helpe Them. To which is Added, a Treatise of the Diseases of Infants, and Young Children: With the Cure of Them, and also of the Small Pox. With a Treatise for the Nursing of Children. Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav the French Kings Chirurgion, London: Printed by Anne Griffih, for Ioyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1635, →OCLC, page 52:If too much milke be the cauſe, then the Nurſe ſhall not give the childe ſucke ſo often, nor in ſuch plenty: If it proceed from wind, and that doe cauſe the childe to be thus troubled, it ſhall be diſcuſſed with Fomentations applied to the belly and navell; and with Carminative Cliſters, which ſhall bee given him, […]

### Verb

milke (third-person singular simple present milkes, present participle milking, simple past and past participle milked)
* Obsolete spelling of milk.
** 1611, Edmund Spenser, “The Third Booke of The Faerie Qveen”, in The Faerie Qveene, Simon Stafford, Canto X, page 174:Her vp they tooke, and with them home herled, With them as houſewife euer to abide, To milke their goates, and make them cheeſe & bred. And euery one as common good her haadeled ;
** 1613, Robert Anton, Moriomachia‎:Good Lady ſhee did ſeldome vſe to milke, Or touch ſuch things as were not clad in ſilke.