Therfore purvey an redy remedy, or ellis ye lese the tenauntis hertis and ye gretly hurt; for it is gret pety to here the swemefull[10-2] and petowse compleyntis of the pore tenauntis that come to me for comfort and socour sometime vi.
And therfore who so wil go right weye, men gon fro Trapazond toward Ermonye the gret, unto a cytee that is clept Artyroun, that was wont to ben a gode cytee and a plentyous; but the Turkes han gretly wasted it.
The grete Cane of Cathay hathe gretly coveted that rubye; but he myghte never han it, for werre ne for no maner of godes.
But o thing lyked me right wele; I was so nygh, I mighte fele Of the botoun the swote odour, 1845 And also see the fresshe colour; And that right gretly lyked me, That I so neer it mighte see.
The thinges that gretly agreggen hir sinne is the brekinge of hir avow of chastitee, whan they receyved the ordre.
I moot trespace To yow, my spouse, and yow gretly offende, Er tyme come that I wil doun descende.
And though thou be for wo in poynt to dye, That shal ful gretly lissen thee of thy pyne.
For right as I was sorowed thorow the gloton cloud of manifolde 65 sickly sorow, so mirth [of] ayencoming helth hath me glad[d]ed and gretly comforted.
Wherin resteth gretlythe welefare of our subgettes, With the whiche horrible dede, we be right gretely displeased as we have cause so to be.
Ferthermore We do you to understonde that Roger Tillyngton, Skynnere, our welbeloved servaunt desurth gretly to be freman and enfranchised amongs you at þis tyme.
Thou hast eek blamed gretly and compleined of the wrongful 40 dede of the senat.
But certes, yif ther were beautee or bountee in the shyninge of stones, thilke cleernesse is of the stones hem-self, and nat of men; for whiche I wondre 30 gretly that men mervailen on swiche thinges.
And eek certes I trowe, that this be gretly to considere, that moneye ne hath nat in his owne kinde that it ne may ben bi-nomen of hem that han it, maugre hem?
But, as I trowe, I shal nat gretly travailen to do thee remembren on thise thinges.
It ne recordeth me nat,' quod I; 'for I have it gretly alwey 45 ficched in my memorie.
So it shewed that the power of Rome was gretly mynusshed and febled.
How Vegesse in his Booke of Chevalrie also gretly recomendithe exercise in men of armes.
But as I trowe I shal not gretly trauaile to don þe remembren of þise þinges.
Certys q{uo}d I þat desijr I gretly {and} 2404 haue abiden longe tyme to herkene it.
For whiche I wondre 1204 gretly þat men merueilen on swiche þinges.
Than Inglissmen was rycht gretly agast, Fra north and south in to thair king thai past, At Pomfray lay, and held a parlement.
Grewit tharat rycht gretly wes the king; Throuch all Ingland he gart his doaris cry 285 Power to get; and said, he wald planly In Scotland pass, that rewme to statut new.
Gretly displessyd was all that chewalry: Till a chyftane, thai held it fantasy 660 To walk allayn.
In ilka part thai war gretly agast, Throw prophesye that thai had herd befor.
Thus tretyt he, and cheryst wondyr fair Trew Scottis men that fewté maid him thar; And gaiff gretly feill gudis at he wan; He warndit nocht till na gud Scottis man.
Na herrald thar durst than to Wallace pass, 955 Quharoff the king gretly agrewit was.
Than Inglissmen so gretly wes agast, That nane off thaim durst rusch out off the staill; All in aray held thaim to gidder haill.
Bot gretly war his men and he Travaled with tempest on the se; Bot, thouch thai gretly travalit war, Haill and feir thai cummyn ar.
Schir Edward had of him pite, And him full gretly menyt he, And regratit his gret manhede, And his worschyp with douchty dede.
And he resavit thame in daynte, And hir full gretly thankit he; And sperit tithandis of the Queyn, And of his frendis all bedeyn, 144 That he had left in that cuntre, Quhen that he put hym to the se.
The-quhethyr in his tyme sa wrocht he, 405 That he suld gretly lovyt be.
His fayis gretly stonayit he, For he fled nevir throu fors of ficht.
Tharfor his men confortit he, And bad thame wicht and worthy be; For gif at thai mycht wyn the Kyng, And victor haf of the fechting, 288 Thai suld richt weill rewardit be, And gretly ek thair renownee.
With Inglis men gretly wes he Menyt that day, and his bountee.
To treson tuk he than no heid: But he wes wount, quhar-evir he yheid, His suerd about his hals to bere; that avalit hym gretly ther.
This gud knycht, that I spek of heir, 496 With all the folk that with hym weir, Weill soyn to Galloway cummyn is, All that he fand he maid it his; And ryotit gretly the lande.
He bad thame leiff thair sorowyng; For it, he said, mycht nocht releif, And mycht thaimself gretly engreif.
Richt gretly thus stonayit thai ware Throu the fors of that first assay, 604 That thai war in-to gret affray, And wend be fer thai had beyn ma, For that thai war assalyhit swa.
His fayis gretly can hym dreid; The word weill fer sprang of this deid, Swa that in Ingland neir thar-by Men spak of it weill comonly.
If thou wolt take into thi mod 2310 Reson, thou myht be reson deeme That so thi prince forto queeme Is noght to reson acordant, Bot it is gretly descordant Unto the Scoles of Athene.
Also, sir, it is told me that my Lord of Norfolk is comyn to Framlyngham, and that ye be gretly comendyd in his howshold.
I am rygt gretly hevyed for my pore wyfe, for the sorow she takyth, and most leefe hyr and hyr contree.
I marvayll gretly that ye send me no word how that ye do, for your elmyse [enemies] begynne to wax right bold, and that puttith your frends bothyn in grete fere and dought.
It is reportyd that the Kyng is gretly dyspleasyd ther with.
Notwithstandyng, we merveyle gretly that the seid Sir William, his sones and servauntes, as it is seid, assiste and comfort the seid persones so entryng and withdrawyng the seid catell, seying that he is named both feffe and executour.
Yelverton and Jeney ar lek for to be gretly ponyschyd, for because they came not hedyr to the Kyng.
Many men be gretly aferd of thys mater, and so the tresorer hath mych to do for thys cause.
Me mervelyt gretly off the certificat off Mr. Robert in that be halve, for this is the truthe as forth forth as I kan remembre me.
Kyng was informyd that ther was a ryotows felawschep in thys contre, wer for the Kyng was gretly dysplesyd, and that the Kyng undyrstood well that it was not of ther owne mosyon, boot of cownselyng of one or ij.
Venus is clepit Cytherea fra the ile Cythera, besid Creyt, quhar scho was norysit; or fra the mont Cytheron, quhar scho was gretly wirscheppit.
The tother twa maid nane ansuer agane; Bot in the woddis hyis at the flicht, Assurit gretly in dirknes of the nycht.
Thus, wenyng, allane Ene to haue reprevit, 5 He has gretly the prynce of poetis grevit.
Thus mekil said scho; and tharwith bad adew, 5 Hir hed valit with a haw claith or blew, And, murnand gretly thar as that scho stud, This Goddes dowkit deip vnder the flud.
And netheles into sum place, quha kend it, My mastir Chauser gretly Virgill offendit.
According to the prior of Lochlevin, he was desperately wounded; but "Thare rays a welle gret renowne, "And gretly prysyd wes gud Gordown.
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