And in asmych as it is so nere your most elmyse ere, it shall be to you the gretter vylney and shame to all your frendis, and the grettest coragyng and plesere that can be to your elmyse.
But yf that ye loffe me, as I tryste verely that ye do, ye will not leffe me therefor; for if that ye hade not halfe the lyvelode that ye hafe, for to do the grettest labur that any woman on lyve myght, I wold not forsake yowe.
This Pandarus gan on hir for to stare, And seyde, `Now is this the grettest wonder That ever I sey!
This is on of the grettest kyngdomes of the world: but it is not alle enhabyted.
For theise 2 ben the grettest lordes undir the firmament.
And alle thoughe it be clept a see, it is no see, ne it touchethe to non other see; but it is a lake, the grettest of the world.
And thorghe that contree rennethe the ryvere of Ethille, that is on of the grettest ryveres of the world.
Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Privee and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, 1115 And tak him for the grettest gentil man.
But certes, lechours dide he grettest wo; 1310 They sholde singen, if that they were hent; And smale tytheres weren foule y-shent.
This multiplying blent so many oon, That in good feith I trowe that it be The cause grettest of swich scarsetee.
And whan he cam, him happede, par chaunce, That alle the grettest that were of that lond, Pleyinge atte hasard he hem fond.
In the heved of this for-seide Capricorne is the grettest declinacioun southward of the sonne, and ther-for is it cleped the Solsticioun of Winter.
And to my fader shal I senden here 2050 This worthy man, that is now your gaylere, And, him to guerdon, that he shal wel be Oon of the grettest men of my contree.
In this heved of Cancer is the grettest declinacioun northward of the sonne.
My modyr grette yow wel, and sendyth yow Goddys blyssyng and hers; and sche prayeth yow, and I pray yow also, that ye be wel dyetyd of mete and drynke, for that is the grettest helpe that ye may have now to your helthe ward.
Of oure order ther beth Bichopes wel manye, Seyntes on sundri stedes That suffreden harde; And we ben proved the priis Of popes at Rome, 510 And of grettest degre, As godspelles telleth.
Grettest of vertues is humylite, As Salomon seith, sone of sapience, Moost was accepted to the Deite.
Where he that attempteth grettest thynges, and hye: Great weyght of charges and moche dignite Must lerne to suffer payne thought and vexacion By his great charges of perturbacion.
Trewly, therin thou 130 lesest the guerdon of vertue; and lesest the grettest valour of conscience, and uphap thy renome everlasting.
He had not so moche as to cover with his membres; and yet was he oon of the grettest kinges of al the Normandes ofspring, and moste possession had.
Also power of realmes, is not thilke grettest power amonges the worldly powers reckened?
The kyngdom of Cathay is the grettest reme of the world.
And he hathe many other precyous stones, and many other rubyes and charboncles: but tho ben the grettest and the moste precyous.
Aftre passe men overthwart a gret ryvere, that men clepen Dalay: and that is the grettest ryvere of fressche water, that is in the world.
This Pandarus gan on hir for to stare, And seyde, 'now is this the grettest wonder That ever I sey!
I wolde have labored the contrary, by my sowle--that is the grettest othe that I may swere of my silff--they had never be nygh my maister in that case they stonde nowe.
Seynt Andreu day next comyng shall be thegrettest bataill that was sith the bataill of Shrewisbury,[48.
My Lord of Warwyks shyp, the Mary Grace and the Trenyte, hadde the grettest hurt, for they wer formost.
For he is the most grettest and hyest in dignyte aboue alle other and most worthy.
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