And first of all, it is more then time, there were an ende and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writting latelie entertained, whereby matter of religion is handled in the stile of the stage.

[…] old age is still old age.
It is the waning, not the crescent moon,
The dusk of evening, not the blaze of noon:
It is not strength, but weakness; not desire,
But its surcease; not the fierce heat of fire,
The burning and consuming element,
But that of ashes and of embers spent […]

[…] the time came when he sickened of the whole affair, and withdrew his agent, and took whatever gain from it the actor apportioned him. He was apt to have these sudden surceases, following upon the intensities of his earlier interest […]

[Joe Stork, delivering a baby via taxiplane:] Why should I wear my wings out, when modern ingenuity offers surcease?

For the individual who wishes to live in his time, to be a part of the future, the super-industrial revolution offers no surcease from change.

1899, Zénaïde A. Ragozin, Frithjof, The Viking of Norway in Frithjof, The Viking of Norway and Roland, The Paladin of France, Tales of the Heroic Ages, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Chapter 9, p. 67,
And instantly the storm surceases, the heavens clear, the sun comes forth in splendour, as a king entering the audience-hall, and sheds the glory of his presence over ship and sea and land.

The waves obedient to theyr beheast,
Them yielded ready passage, and their rage surceast.

1697, John Dryden, (translator), Virgil’s Æneis, Book 12, lines 1024-1025, in The Works of Virgil, Volume 3, 5th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1721, p. 985,
The Nations, over-aw’d, surcease the Fight,
Immoveable their Bodies, fix’d their Sight:

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