Bad luck, misfortune.
But let this same be presently perform'd / Even when men's minds are wild, lest more mischance / On plots and errors happen.
A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
He doth miraculously protect from thieves, incursions, sword, fire, and all violent mischances […]
To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).
From Anglo-Norman meschance, Old French meschance, meschaunce.
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