Fourty and fyve off age, Wallace was cauld, That tym that he was to [the] Southeroun sauld.
In the work of the Minstrel we are told “Fourty and fyve off age, Wallace was cauld, That tym that he was to [the] Southeron sauld.
Fyve thousand folk it was as gret mervaille With loves fyve and fisshes two to fede.
And after that, he brente fyve citees with thonder-leyt, and sank hem in-to helle.
Thise been the fyve fingres of the develes hand, by whiche he draweth folk to sinne.
Whan ended was the lyf of seint Cecyle, Er we had riden fully fyve myle, 555 At Boghton under Blee us gan atake A man, that clothed was in clothes blake, And undernethe he hadde a whyt surplys.
The Lordis war never togidder fyve hundreth horsmen, with a hundreth souldiouris; and yitt thai held the Frenche so busye, that for everie horse thai slew to the Congregatioun, thai lost foure Frenche souldiouris.
The year of God a thousand fyve hundreth threscoir thre yearis, thair was ane universall dearth in Scotland.
For in England I wes resident onlie the space of fyve yearis.
Take fyve of the best knyghtes That be in your lede, And walke downe by yon abbay, And gete you monkës wede.
Lytyll Johnn there hym bethought On a shrewde wyle; Fyve myle in the forest he ran, Hym happëd all his wyll.
Y telle ou for sothe, for al huere bobaunce, Ne for the avowerie of the Kyng of Fraunce, 30 Tuenti score ant fyve haden ther meschaunce, By day ant eke by nyht.
Up rose the laird to red the cumber, Which would not be for all his boast; What could we doe with sic a number-- Fyve thousand men into a host?
The xxv^{th} day of July in the yere of our Lorde God a thousande fyve hundreth fyftie and one.
Then came he that|long time the lord of those servants had receaved fyve talentes and |cometh, and reckoneth with them.
Fyve curteins of crimson sattin to the same bedsted, striped downe with a bone lace of gold and silver, garnished with buttons and loops of crimson silk and golde, containing xiiij bredths of sattin, and one yarde iij quarters deepe.
Fyve plumes of coolered feathers, garnished with bone lace and spangells of goulde and silver, standing in cups knitt all over with goulde, silver, and crymson silk.
Andrea Dittis, fyve silk keremons with silk watta, of them geven me at Japon Cort.
I paid unto one of the smiths of the Moone, a Staffordshire man, for a fowling peece, fyve Rialles of eight in Spanish plate, is xxs.
And over this yit natheles Upon the sydes of the werk, After the wrytinge of the clerk, Ther sitten fyve Stones mo: The smaragdine is on of tho, 840 Jaspis and Elitropius And Dendides and Jacinctus.
For he with him hath evere fyve Servantz that helpen him to stryve: The ferst of hem Malencolie Is cleped, which in compaignie An hundred times in an houre Wol as an angri beste loure, 30 And noman wot the cause why.
A similar payment was made to him in 1491, "Item, to the servants of Piers Edgecombe that brought unto us two prisoners, fyve marks.
Thai durst nocht fecht with thame, for-thi Thai withdrew thame all halely; 570 The-quhethir thai war fyve hundreth ner.
Thai war fyve bataillis, gret and braid, That soucht Schir Edward and his men; Weill neir him war thai cummyn then.
The fyve Bokes of Moses, wythe the Prologes of Wyllyam Tyndale, b.
But now I am remewed fro the citee of Rome almost fyve hundred thousand pas, I am with-oute defence dampned to proscripcioun and to the deeth, for the studie and bountees that I have doon to the senat.
And sey thys charme fyve tymes withfyve Pater Nosters, in the worschep of the fyve woundys.
So he gave twenty fyve bars Coban gould for ballance of all acco.
And sey thys Charme fyve tymes, with fyve Pater Nostirs, in the worship of the fyve woundys.
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