Definition of "goode"
goode
adjective
Quotations
Hee communeth moche wythe mee as to ye difficoltye of fyndinge priestes to do the mynistrie , and forasmoche as I came into theese parttes onlie ye whiles my verye goode friende Father Cornelius colde arrange matters wyth hys superiors beyonde seas, I am nothing lothes to betake me, at hys returne, to do ye beheste of Maister Tregiaun, who willeth that I sholde worke in the spirytualle vineyarde, at the house of one Syr Huberte Tracie, a near kinsmanne of hys, abydinge within smalle distaunce of hys seate in Cornewayle.
15?? (quoted in 1841), Elizabeth I, Merrye Englaunde: or, the Goldene daies of goode Queene Besse, page 33
On the contrarie because in his Funeral he confesseth that Josephus alloweth of the merit of goode workes; therefore the first obseruation in his Downefal, in which he most falselie gathereth out of him, that he grauteth, both S. Chrisostom and the rest of the fathers, to affirme goode workes not to be meritorious of eternal, by a strange downefal, brake the necke, and is so interred in his Funderal that no memory thereof is left.
1607, Philip Woodward, The Dolefull Knell, of Thomas Bell, page 190