The fifthe signe is, that a man or a womman be obeisant to receyven the penaunce that him is enioyned for hise sinnes; for certes Iesu Crist, for the giltes of a man, was obedient to the deeth.
And certes he sholde nat be called a gentil man, that after god and good conscience, alle thinges left, ne dooth his diligence and bisinesse to kepen his good name.
But thogh attempree weping be y-graunted, outrageous weping certes is defended.
And also, if I wolde werke by thy conseilling, certes my conseilling moste som tyme be secree, til it were tyme that it moste be knowe; and this ne may noght be.
For certes every wight wolde holde me thanne a fool; /2245 this is to seyn, if I, for thy conseilling, wolde chaungen thinges that been ordeyned and affermed by so manye wyse.
Certes man shal loven his enemy by the comandement of god; and soothly thy frend shaltow love in God.
And how that chydinge be a vileyns thing bitwixe alle manere folk, yet it is certes most uncovenable bitwixe a man and his wyf; for there is nevere reste.
For som-tyme detraccion maketh an hautein man be the more humble, for he dredeth detraccion; but certes flaterye, that maketh a man to enhauncen his herte and his contenaunce.
Senek seith: "the wise man shal nat take to greet disconfort for the deeth of his children, / but certes he sholde suffren it in pacience, as wel as he abydeth the deeth of his owene propre persone.
The firste is in entente of engendrure of children to the service of god, for certes that is the cause fynal of matrimoine.
And certes, ones a yere atte leeste wey it is laweful for to been housled; for certes ones a yere alle thinges renovellen.
My lord,' quod she, 'as to your firste resoun, certes it may lightly been answered.
And certes every man, mayden, or wyf, 1180 May understonde that Iesus, hevene king, Ne wolde nat chese a vicious living.
For certes ye be none of the knights of the quest, but one of them which hath served the fiend, and hast left the service of our Lord.
Certes damsel, said Launcelot, I wot not whither I ride, but as fortune leadeth me.
Ye be well found, said Sir Bors, for certes you have put us out of great pain, wherein we should have entered ne had your tidings been.
Certes this fruitfulness was not unknown unto the Britons long before Caesar's time, which was the cause wherefore our predecessors living in those days in manner neglected tillage and lived by feeding and grazing only.
Certes I call these casual means, not in the respect of the original of all poverty, but of the continuance of the same, from whence they will not be delivered, such is their own ungracious lewdness and froward disposition.
Certes there is no greater mischief done in England than by robberies, the first by young shifting gentlemen, which oftentimes do bear more port than they are able to maintain.
Certes there is no parcel of the main wherein a man shall generally find more fine and wholesome water than in England; and therefore it is impossible that our sheep should decay by tasting of the same.
Certes in some men's judgment these things are but trifles, and not worthy the regarding.
Certes I may speak of them right well as feeling the harm in that I am a buyer, nevertheless I speak generally in each of them.
Certes there are great numbers of these latter, which yet remain in sound knowledge, and are to be read, being comprehended for the most part under the names of the Martian and the Saxon law.
What should I talk of the plaster of Axholm (for of that which they dig out of the earth in sundry places of Lincoln and Derbyshire, wherewith they blanch their houses instead of lime, I speak not), certes it is a fine kind of alabaster.
KING DAVID Certes his mouth is wried and black, Full little pence be in his sack; This devil hath him by the back, It is no boot to lie.
And in good time he gat an evil death Out of his lewdness with his cursed wives: His bones were hewn asunder as with knives For his misliving, certes it is said.
But I am certes ready to hear them now," declared Sir Richard.
Certes will I bear the sir knight company," the grizzled knight instantly agreed.
Certes the mercy of God is euere redy to every penitent and is aboven alle hise werkes.
For certes swich sorwe werketh to the deeth of the soule and of the body also; for therof comth, that a man is anoyed of his owene lyf.
Thanne comth drede to biginne to werke any gode werkes; for certes he that is enclyned to sinne, him thinketh it is so greet an empryse for to undertake to doon werkes of goodnesse.
Could looks but kill, Maria certes would have annihilated the low rascal who had dared to lay hands upon the noble jongejuffrouw.
Certes it was animated and moving and picturesque; and as three pairs of eyes beneath three broad-brimmed hats took in its several details, three muffled figures uttered three simultaneous gurgles of anticipated pleasure.
Certes he was the first that euer tendered complaint out of England vnto Rome, & with him went William Bishop of London (afterward reuoked) and Vlfo of Lincolne, who hardlie escaped the furie of the English nobilitie.
Certes I find among the writers, that the milke of a goat is next in estimation to that of the woman; for that it helpeth the stomach, remooueth oppilations and stoppings of the liuer, and looseth the bellie.
Certes if it be so, then is it not the viper author [Sidenote: * Galenus de Theriaca ad Pisonem.
Certes they are to be found in these our daies, and thereto of diuerse colours, in no lesse numbers than euer they were in old time.
Certes I know the place where the mill stood, and some posts thereof doo yet remaine.
Certes that sulphur-colored horse hath a very devilish look.
Certes this is as it should be, and though I have obeyed the call of Holy Church I had no fears that so excellent a Prince as Edward of England would refuse to meet us in battle.
Wherefore, to conclude, I say that what a woman doth to a husband who is jealous without cause should certes not be condemned, but rather commended.
And certes I confess I did ill; but who is there doth not ill bytimes?
I will, therefore, tell you a little story thereof, quaint and pleasant enough to my thinking, which to recall can certes be none other than useful.
And certes in this I set my every faculty to the endeavouring that, so far as in me lay, no shame should ensue either to thee or to me through this to which natural frailty moved me.
But certes he shall not have his will; nay, though I abide there all day, needs must I see what traffic is this that he hath in hand to-day.
As he waxed in age, use turned to love so great and so ardent that he was never easy save what time he saw her, and certes she loved him no less than she was loved of him.
On the left hand dwell The iron-workers, called the Chalybes, Of whom beware, for certes they are uncouth And nowise bland to strangers.
I would not certes cut you short in hate, Far be it from me!
Certes I had not ordered such a thing to be put on mortal man.
For certes it do go sore against us to die when there's a little innocent a-pulling at our hearts to let un live, and feeding at our very veins.
He may refuse to come nigh me; but certes he will not deny a poor woman, who loved him once, her lines of betrothal.
For certes it do go sore against us to die when there's a little innocent a pulling at our hearts to let 'un live, and feeding at our very veins.
Bardi said that certes it was a matter to be borne with, if he had had to avenge himself.
Fierce steel-gods these in turn did meet With blubber-slices nowise sweet; Certes a wretched thing it is To tell of squabbles such as this.
See to that yourselves," said Grettir, "but certes I do not take to all men alike.
And when that she had opened my letter, and saw it so covered and defaced and blurred with tears, certes it was told unto me that she was much discomforted, and that as she read it, she wept so much, that the tears ran down her face.
And great need had I of this, for certes I was like to die or to lose my reason.
I took it, for I ever strove to bring up my children in the ways o' honesty; and certes she had spoiled the contents o' the caldron by turning it into a bath-tub for Master Mouldy.
Methought the queen herself could not have had a finer wedding, and certes no woman could have had a nobler spouse.
And certes she was, seeing that every soul at Amhurste did come to her for healing, let a cat but scratch them.
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