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c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 631 Þe king..makeden murthe & meloudie.

c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 9 Smale foweles maken melodye.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 121 Make myrthe and melody.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxxxix. f. lxxxxix/1 They were ryght ioyous..and made grete chere and melody.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eph. v. B Synginge and makynge melody vnto the Lorde in youre hertes.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cviij To tel you..what melody was made in Tavernes..it were a long woorke.

1611 Bible (King James) Ephes. v. 19 Speaking to your selues, in Psalmes, and Hymnes, and Spirituall songs, singing and making melodie in your heart to the Lord. View more context for this quotation

1778 J. W. Fletcher Lett. 15 July in Posthumous Pieces (1793) 209 They said they would sing to their father, as well as the birds; and followed me, attempting to make such melody as you know is commonly made in these parts.

1829 F. D. Hemans Evening Prayer in Forest Sanctuary (ed. 2) 274 Fresh within your breasts th' untroubled springs Of Hope make melody.

1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 367 If we make melody in our hearts, and if our souls are tempered to harmony, then is the Divinity enlarged within us.

1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 111 The embowered river-reaches with their multitude of voices making melody.

2000 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Mar. f6 With the sweet showers of April soon to arrive, piercing the drought of March as birds make melody.