He was indeede a very wise man, and of greate partes, and possessed with the most absolute spiritt of popularity, that is the most absolute facultyes to governe the people, of any man I ever knew.
And ofte tyme it bitydeth, that the somme of thinges that ben to done is taken to governe to gode folk, for that the malice haboundaunt of shrewes sholde ben abated.
And in the latere ende of thy wode Muse, thou preyedest that thilke 45 pees that governeth the hevene sholde governe the erthe.
O thou governour, governinge alle thinges by certein ende, why refusestow only to governe the werkes of men by dewe manere?
Sir, your discretion shallgoverne me at this time.
The world doth know thy brother but resigned The lands and goods untill his sonne attain'de To riper years to weld [sic] and governe them.
Come then, away, that we may take in hand, To have possession of my brothers land, His goods and all untill he come of age To rule and governe such possessions.
Save your wrathe: Tys fytt that nowe your wisdome governe you.
Yet, notwithstanding this, I hope fresh starres will governein the spring; And then, assure your princelie friend your maister, Our promise in all honour shall be kept.
Now Iesu Crist, that of his might may sende 1160 Ioye after wo, governe us in his grace, And kepe us alle that ben in this place!
And wyf, by-cause of thy swete wordes, and eek for I have assayed and preved thy grete sapience and thy grete trouthe, I wol governe me by thy conseil in alle thing.
Thus can fortune hir wheel governe and gye, And out of Ioye bringe men to sorwe.
And as wel as ye wolde eschewe to be called an avaricious man or chinche, / as wel sholde ye kepe yow and governe yow in swich a wyse that men calle yow nat fool-large.
A mayde child cam in hir companye, 1285 Which as hir list she may governe and gye, For yet under the yerde was the mayde.
Your thridde resoun is this: ye seyn that "if ye governe yow by my conseil, it sholde seme that ye hadde yeve me the maistrie and the lordshipe over your persone.
And therfore, if ye governe yow by sapience, put awey sorwe out of your herte.
To minde to have them, to doe no hurt against other, it ought to bee considered, that thei cannot dooe this, except by meane of the heddes, whiche governe them.
Sidenote: How the pikes that are placed on the flankes of the armie ought to governe them selves when the rest of the armie is driven to retire.
They reminded him of this answer, and further remarked how they had heard that he had said, 'Let my brother governe as hym lust whiles he is in this land, for after his going overe into Fraunce I will governe as me semeth good.
Right so litel or naught is worth erthely power, but if reignatif prudence in heedes governe the smale; to whiche heedes the smale owen to obey and suffre in their governaunce.
And for-as-moch as al thinges by me shulden of right ben governed, 75 I am sory to see that governaunce fayleth, as thus: to sene smale and lowe governe the hye and bodies above.
The Governor was not unrestrained in his authority over the colonists, for he was to "rule, punish, pardone and governe according to such directions" as were given him by the London Company.
In matters not covered by his instructions he was to "rule and governe by his owne discretion or by such lawes" as he should think fit to establish.
On hath to governe 4, and another hath to governe 5, another mo, and another wel mo.
And right as the schip men taken here avys here, and governe hem be the lode sterre, right so don schip men bezonde the parties, be the sterre of the southe, the whiche sterre apperethe not to us.
And though thei ben noght alle like, Yit natheles, hou so it falle, O lawe mot governe hem alle, Or that thei lese or that thei winne, After thastat that thei ben inne.
And bricht Appollo with thy cours eterne, That makis the frutis spring on every ground, And with thy mychty influence doisgoverne The twynkland sternes about the mappamound[704]!
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