And I prechid on the Sonday byfore hem, not warnyd tyl after mete.
And that ye lyke to come in to these partyes byfore ye ryde to London, I pray yow hertely that I may speke with yow for dyvers maters that I have to comowne with yow, &c.
And byfore I had ryte ovyr and soleyn chere of hem bothe, &c.
I doo you to vnderstonde that the saide Sir William Wolff is clearly dischargyd of his saide apparaunce byfore the saide counsaill wherefore I praie you to cause the saide Recognisaunce withe the condicion [to be] made frustrate and Void.
Y do ou to wyte, Here heved wes of-smyte, Byfore the Tour-gate.
Amonge the muses nyne celestyalle Byfore the hyest Iubyter of alle 371 THE ORIEL TEXT.
Where counsel fails, experience may step in and exact a higher price for the lesson taught: "So that child withdraweth is hond From the fur ant the brond That hath byfore ben brend Brend child fur dredeth Quoth Hendyng.
Byfore God for thefte hit ys take, All that wyth wronge he wynneth so; But he the radure amends make He shall wyte hymeself hys owen wo.
Thay be payntyd byfore mennes eyes, bycause that no cowrtyer after thys shuld laye violêt handes other apõ Byshopes, or the churche goodes.
And if any haue forty byfore dynar, may he axe other forty at after souper, is there any thynge left than to gyue him?
Ac while he wrought in thys worlde, And wan hus mete with Treuthe, He sat atte syd benche And secounde table, Com no wyn in hus wombe Thorw the weke longe, Nother blankett in hus bed, Ne white bred byfore hym.
Ich sawe the feld ful of folk Fram ende to the other; And Reson revested Ryght as a pope, And Conscience his crocer Byfore the kynge stande.
They seyn right thus, that thynge is nat to come, For that the prescience hath seyne byfore That it shal come; but they seyn that therfore That it shal come, therfor the purveyaunce Woot it bifore, withouten ignorance.
Hadde neuer Arthour byfore y-doo: They fowȝt tyl þer come doun bloode Bellum As a(.
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