I taughte this answere un-to the knight; 1050 For which he plighte me his trouthe there, The firste thing I wolde of him requere, He wolde it do, if it lay in his might.
For of hir fader hadde she take leve To gon to reste, sone after it was eve; Hir liste nat appalled for to be, 365 Nor on the morwe unfestlich for to see; And slepte hir firste sleep, and thanne awook.
I wol nat tarien yow, for it is pryme, And for it is no fruit but los of tyme; Un-to myfirste I wol have my recours.
God woot, this noble king, as to my wit, The firste night had many a mery fit With ech of hem, so wel was him on lyve!
Whan that the firste cok hath crowe, anon Up rist this Ioly lover Absolon, And him arrayeth gay, at point-devys.
If even-song and morwe-song acorde, 830 Lat se now who shal telle the firste tale.
And certes, as to the firste poynt, it is wel knowen whiche folk been they that consenteden to your hastif wilfulnesse; / for trewely, alle tho that conseilleden yow to maken sodeyn werre ne been nat your freendes.
The firste is, that confessioun moste be shamefast, nat for to covere ne hyden his sinne, for he hath agilt his god and defouled his soule.
The firste accion of Penitence is, that a man be baptized after that he hath sinned.
This vertu hath manye speces; and the firste is cleped Magnanimitee, that is to seyn, greet corage.
I am your owene love and eek your wyf; I am she, which that saved hath your lyf; And certes, yet dide I yow never unright; Why fare ye thus with me this firste night?
The firste is this: he that hath greet ire and wratthe in him-self, he weneth alwey that he may do thing that he may nat do.
Where as the Poo out of a welle small Taketh his firste springing and his sours.
From the firste tyme I saw him dysmounting from hys hors in the corte-yard of the palace I dysliked hym.
Firste note with stronge faith the power of god in creatinge all of nought Then marke the grevous fall of Adam and of vs all in him/ thorow the light regard[~i]ge of the commaundement of god.
Me comprehendyth within his deytee Of hym my firstebegynnynge is doutles.
He must sore stody, for without dilygence And besy laboure no man can it obtayne None ought to cesse: though it firste be a payne.
Syns she vnstable is and can nat longe endure Hir gyftis changith, she is blynde and sodayne Thoughe she firste lawghe hir ende is vncertayne.
A prologe in prose shewynge to what intent this Boke was firste made, & who were the first Auctours of it.
The firste twelve do ryme in staves of foure lines by crosse meetre, and the last two ryming togither do conclude the whole.
There was a good motto written ouer the gates at Yorke, at King James the Firste his firste entraunce into that city: 'Suavis Victoriae amor populi.
Still the general feeling of the men of his time is expressed by his disciple Occleve, who terms him "The firste finder[1] of our fair langage.
All these pointes, I say, which are largly handled in the firste parte of this booke, C.
I cannot in this my firste reasoning, and according to my purpose saie more, and when this suffiseth you not, it is mete, you seke of them that may satisfie you better.
One of the Frenche kinge's called Frauncis the firste of that name, declared his gentle nature to Counte Guillaume, that would haue killed him.
Mother make no haste to buye it, first let it be cheapened by other, and at length I will deuise a meane that you shall have it: for it is not wysedome for vs to be the firste that shall desire it.
This dame florished and tryumphed in the tyme of the firste Punique warres, when the Consul Mamillus was sent to Carthage, who dispended more Money vpon the loue of Flora, than hee did vpon the chase and pursute of his enimies.
Then nere the chimney them they set, and that same Onyon then That firste doth sproute doth surely bear the name of their good man.
The firste ryvere is clept Phison, that is to seyne in hire langage, Assemblee: for many other ryveres meten hem there, and gon in to that ryvere.
But after the firste nyght, that they ben leyn by, thei kepen hem so streytely, that thei ben not so hardy to speke with no man.
By thise same causes the floury yeer yildeth swote smelles in the firste 20 somer-sesoun warminge; and the hote somer dryeth the cornes; and autumpne comth ayein, hevy of apples; and the fletinge reyn bideweth the winter.
Now mighte som envyous Iangle thus, 'This was a sodeyn love, how mighte it be That she so lightly lovede Troilus Right for the firste sighte; ye, pardee?
How shulde I thus ten dayes ful endure, Whan I the firste night have al this tene?
God helpe me so, this is the firste lettre That ever I wroot, ye, al or any del.
Thus, whan that night was discussed and chased a-wey, derknesses forleften me, and to myn eyen repeirede ayein hir firste strengthe.
Al be I not the firste that dide amis, What helpeth that to do my blame awey?
Al mighte a geaunt passen him of might, His herte ay with the firste and with the beste Stod paregal, to durre don that him leste.
But some thinges ben put under purviaunce, that surmounten the ordinaunce of destinee; and tho ben thilke that stably ben y-ficched negh to the firste godhed: they surmounten the ordre of destinal moevabletee.
This thing anoon was couth in every strete, Bothe in thassege, in toune, and every-where, And with the firste it cam to Calkas ere.
Ther-with his herte gan to sprede and ryse, And softe sighed, lest men mighte him here, And caughte a-yein his firste pleyinge chere.
Xerxes hymself would be laste in battaile to fight, and the firste to retire, and runne awaie.
Roome a olde aunciente citée, inhabited firste of the Aborigines, which [Sidenote: Carthage.
Mariage is not the cause: Nature in her firste molde hath so framed all, wherefore doe you ascribe that to mariage, that is founde faultée in Nature.
Aucthours doe write, that Poetes firste inuented fables, the whiche Oratours also doe [Fol.
His countree brought to ruin, & spoiled, if that kyng Hiero should but enter Rome, euen in the firste entryng, he should beholde the spoile of his countree.
I muse moche, wai- yng the line of our firste progenitour, from whence we came [Fol.
Citée of London, shewyng the auncient buildyng of thesame: the commyng of Brutus, who was the firste au- cthor and erector of thesame.
And also at euery feeste of our lorde Criste syngulerly by himselfe, from the firste euynsonge to the seconde euynsonge inclusyuely, xii.
This younge monk that was so fair of face, Acquainted was so with this goode man, Sithen that their firste knowledge began, That in his house as familiar was he As it possible is any friend to be.
Honnourable our Genneral and Councell in India, for disolveinge this factorie and comeinge all awaye with the firste of the moonsone for Batavia; which, God willinge, wee entend to performe with all convenientsie.
For the firste course they haue soppes or slices of bread, soaked in fleshe brothe, or if it be a fishe day, in the broth of pulce.
H, and betwene them are drawen thre likeiammes, the firste is, A.
Therfore I drawe firsteof all two lynes (as you see) one from E.
A being] that corner which is greatter then a right angle [s in "is" invisible] firste these two right lines A.
This thinge caused me in bothe these bookes to omitte the demonstrations, and to vse onlye a plaine forme of declaration, which might best serue for the firste introduction.
Illustration] Firste the circle is, as you see, A.
Illustration] In the firste triangle E, whiche is a threlyke, and therfore hath all his angles sharpe, take anie twoo corners that you will, and you shall perceiue that they be lesser then ij.
M, is drawen without the firste circle and toucheth hym, as you maie see, but in one place.
Illustration] Firste I haue sette for an exaumple twoo equall circles, that is A.
The firste and the seconde haue one ground line, (that is E.
C, vnto whiche I must seke a centre, therfore firste I do deuide it into .
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