It was commonly reported, that in case the noble Senate of Berna hadde not prosecuted the matter with great constancie, and courage, the Cleargie woulde haue cloaked all the knauerie, and haue sette the authors at libertie.
De ciuitate Dei, and eighte Chapter, after that hee hadde recited certaine miracles, whiche were therefore shewed that men might beléeue in Christ, he setteth foorthe this historie.
Full many a draught of win he hadde draw From Burdeux ward, while that the chapman slepe; Of nice conscience toke he no kepe.
That his conscience was not too finely drawn appears in his conduct at Bordeaux, where he drew full many a draught of wine while the chapman slept:-- The hote sommer hadde made his hewe al broun, And certainly he was a good felaw.
But who so wolde in other thing him grope, Than hadde he spent all his philosophie, Ay, Quaestio quid juris, wolde he crie.
Doctoure Barkleye hadde greate harme ones of suche a visitacion, at Wellys, before he was Quene Maryes Chaplayne.
Sir we lette you witte that whanne the kgng kyng Edward þe fourth oure soveraigne lord after his grete victoryehadde uppon Ester day last passed beside Barnet daparted oute of the saide Citee of London.
She says: "Whereupon I answered hym that I hadde never hadde wylle so to do and that I was too muche unhappy in hosbondes, but he wolde nott beleve me.
And I took to Lawe, and to hym sayde that he was a theefe, and that I thowte not the King hadde wyth hym ledde theeves out of hys contree.
On fysche dayes sche schal ordeyn for whyte metes, yf any may be hadde after the rewle, be syde fysche metes, as it is before seyd.
Hir over lippe wyped she so clene, That in hir coppe was no ferthing sene Of grece, whan she dronken hadde hir draughte.
Hir over lippe wyped she so clene, That in hir coppe was no ferthing sene Of grece, whan she drunken hadde hir draughte.
Richard Steynour, Cytesen of Norwiche, and more hadde we nought of the good whiche he bequeathe us on his ded-bedde in the same Cyte, a worthly place clepyd Tomlonde whiche was with holde fro us be untrewe man his seketoures.
Lancelot recovers and knows he has lain unconscious fourteen days he bethinks him: 'Hoe hi hadde gedient den viant .
Later on Perceval tells her: 'Hoe hi gevonnen hadde sijn lant, Ende sijn broder daer in es bleven Met sinen liden, mit sinen neven.
John Ardren of and for the manour of Belthrop with the apportenaunces which, as I am Informyd ye wer in mynde to haue bought Sir I woold I hadde bene made preuey to your mynd at whych tyme [789] sic.
And sithen how Ymaginatif seide, Vix salvabitur; And whan he hadde seid so, How sodeynliche he passed.
For made nevere kyng no knyght, But he hadde catel to spende As bifel for a knyght, Or foond hym for his strengthe.
Briddes I biheld {223} That in buskes made nestes, Hadde nevere wye wit To werche the leeste.
I hadde wonder at whom And wher the pye lerned To legge the stikkes 7270 In whiche she leyeth and bredeth.
Roughte ye nevere Where my body were buryed, By so ye hadde my silver.
And right as Trojanus the trewe knyght Dwelte noght depe in helle, That oure Lord ne hadde hym lightly out, So leve I the thef be in hevene.
Herto assenteth Cyvyle, Ac Symonye ne wolde, Til he hadde silver for his service, And also the notaries.
As if I hadde dedly synne doon, I dredde noght that so soore, As when I lened, and leved it lost, Or longe er it were paied.
Ac though that theef hadde hevene, He hadde noon heigh blisse, As seint Johan and othere seintes That deserved hadde bettre.
And god it woot,[8] though I unworthy be, I have stonden in ful greet degree Abouten lordes of ful heigh estaat; Yet hadde I never with noon of hem debaat.
And they that hadde y-knowen hir of yore Seye hir so wepe, and thoughte it kindenesse, And eche of hem wepte eek for hir distresse.
For catel hadde they y-nogh and rente, And eek hir wyves wolde it wel assente; And elles certain were they to blame.
He sayde his was a mightie hond, Ne better in ye Southron lond To yearn anly battail: Mony a dewel hadde he fought, And put his foe alway to rout, Withouten ony fail.
The seide John Paston decessed wolde have hadde it graunted owte of the seide maner of Cressyngham; and summe of the executours wolde have hadde the seide messe to a contynued but for the terme of iiij^xx.
Prayinge you, therfor, that ye wolbe here at that tyme, trustynge to Godes mercy that a right good wey shalbe hadde betyx yow that all grugges and rancores shalbe layd a parte.
And at Norwich I spoke with your seid servaunt, and ther he shewed vonto me that my lord hadde send another of his servauntis vonto my Lord of Oxynford to shew vonto his lordship of your departyng, &c.
I have hadde laubour, I trust thorowe your cause it shall nat be in vain laboraverunt, and suffyr this bill hyddyr too to speke to your sellf in privite, and to noon other.
Forwhy I took hit of so yong age, That malice hadde my corage Nat that tyme turned to no-thing 795 Through to mochel knowleching.
The lasse bigyled he sholde have been And he hadde than perceyved it, But richesse nold not late him wit.
And who so wiste al, by my trouthe, My sorwe, but he hadde routhe And pite of my sorwes smerte, That man hath a feendly herte.
To Daunger cam I, al ashamed, 3395 The which aforn me hadde blamed, Desyring for to pese my wo; But over hegge durst I not go, For he forbad me the passage.
Now voucheth sauf this day, or hit be night, That I of you the blisful soun may here, Or see your colour lyk the sonne bright, 10 That of yelownesse hadde never pere.
I hadde levere than my scherte, That ye hadde rad his legende, as have I.
Rule and sadde[52] guydyng hereafter to be hadde amongꝭ the good ffolkꝭ of the said Crafte within the same Crafte to graunt to yo{r.
In a class by himself stands the grimmest figure of all, the Shipman, of whom we are told "If that he faught, and hadde the hyer hond, By water he sente hem hoom to every lond.
Of the Yeoman we are told-- "A not hed hadde he, with a broun visage.
At mortal batailles hadde he been fiftene, And foughten for our feith at Tramissene In listes thryes, and ay slayn his foo.
By that the maunciple hadde his tale al ended, The sonne fro the south lyne was descended So lowe, that he nas nat, to my sighte, Degreës nyne and twenty as in highte.
This mayde of age twelf yeer was and tweye, 30 In which that Nature hadde swich delyt.
Of kinges blode of Perse is she descended; I seye nat that she hadde most fairnesse, But of hir shape she mighte nat been amended.
Nettes of gold-thred hadde he gret plentee 3665 To fisshe in Tybre, whan him liste pleye.
That hadde y-lad of dong ful many a fother, 530 A trewe swinker and a good was he, Livinge in pees and parfit charitee.
And also certes, if I governed me by thy conseil, it sholde seme that I hadde yeve to thee over me the maistrie; and god forbede that it so were.
For soothly, oure swete lord Iesu Crist hath spared [586] us so debonairly in our folies, that if he ne hadde pitee of mannes soule, a sory song we mighten alle singe.
I woot wel Abraham was an holy man, 55 And Iacob eek, as ferforth as I can; And ech of hem haddewyves mo than two; And many another holy man also.
Of cloth-making she hadde such an haunt*, *skill She passed them of Ypres, and of Gaunt.
One daughter hadde they betwixt them two Of twenty year, withouten any mo, Saving a child that was of half year age, In cradle it lay, and was a proper page.
He had a cross of latoun* full of stones, *copper And in a glass he hadde pigge's bones.
For chattelshadde they enough and rent, And eke their wives would it well assent: And elles certain they had been to blame.
A COOK theyhadde with them for the nones*, *occasion To boil the chickens and the marrow bones, And powder merchant tart and galingale.
For though a widow hadde but one shoe, So pleasant was his In Principio,<20> Yet would he have a farthing ere he went; His purchase was well better than his rent.
A CLERK there was of Oxenford* also, *Oxford That unto logic hadde long y-go*.
But great harm was it, as it thoughte me, That, on his shin a mormal* hadde he.
Now voucheth sauf this day, or hyt be nyghte, vouchsafe before That I of yow the blissful soune may here, sound Or se your colour lyke the sunne bryghte, That of yelownesse hadde never pere!
But natheles if I can schape it so That it departed were betwix us tuo, Hadde I not doon a frendes torn to the?
And with that word his speche faille gan, began to fail For fro his feete up to his brest was come The cold of deth, that hadde him overnome.
Ful worthi was he in his lordes werre, war And therto hadde he riden, noman ferre, further As wel in Cristendom as in hethenesse, And evere honoured for his worthinesse.
But certes I suppose that Avycen[194] certainly Wrot never in canoun, ne in non fen, wrote Mo wonder sorwes of empoisonyng wondrous pangs Than hadde these wrecches tuo or here endyng.
Of smale houndes hadde sche, that sche fedde small hounds With rostud fleissh, and mylk, and wastel breed.
So on a day, right in the morwe tyde, morning Unto a gardyne that was ther besyde, In which that thay hadde made here ordinaunce Of vitaile, and of other purvyaunce, victual They gon and pleyen hem al the longe day.
Now wol I torn unto Arcite agayn, turn That litel wiste how nyh that was his care, know, near Til that fortune hadde brought him in the snare.
A vernicle[73] hadde he sowed on his cappe; His walet lay byforn him in his lappe.
Illustration] A CLERK[63] ther was of Oxenford also, Oxford That unto logik hadde longe ygo.
For right as they hadde cast[192] his deth bifore, arranged Right so thay han him slayn, and that anoon.
And sche for wonder took of it no keepe, heed Sche herde not what thing he to hir sayde, Sche ferd as sche hadde stert out of a sleepe, fared, started Til sche out of hir masidnesse abrayde.
Hire overlippe wypude sche so clene,[49] That in hire cuppe ther was no ferthing sene scrap Of grees, whan sche dronken hadde hire draught.
In Grece whilom was a king, Of whom the fame and knowleching Beleveth yit, and Peles He hihte; bot it fell him thus, 3250 That his fortune hir whiel so ladde That he no child his oghne hadde To regnen after his decess.
Tho was this povere Bardus glad, 5070 Thonkende god, and to the Ston He goth an takth it up anon, And hath gret wonder in his wit Hou that the beste him hath aquit, Wher that the mannes Sone hath failed, For whom he hadde most travailed.
The lond was thanne sone weyved, Wher that thei hadden be deceived, And toke hem to the hihe See; Therto thei seiden alle yee, Fro that dai forth and war thei were Of that thei hadde assaied there.
Bot as therof he was deceived; For Livius hadde al conceived The pourpos of the king tofore, So that to Rome ayein therfore In alle haste he cam ridende, And lefte upon the field liggende His host, til that he come ayein.
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