Clerk, this subtle sly OVID And many another have deceived be Of women, as itknowen is full wide.
Ther was Syr Wylliam Say, but Clopton wolde not it schulde be knowen of non other but your selfe.
Also, I bequeith to bedred folkes and other pour householders, aswell men as women, dwelling within London and without in the suburbis of the same, and moste specially souche as have knowen me and I thaym, xls.
I lent unto my son Sir Edward Ponynges, I woll that it be distributyd by the discrecion of myn executours and overseers among souche as been knowen my servauntys at the day of my discease.
Tis a knowen boy, handy, with a head full o' wise things he's larned in the world.
Feel un; 'twill crack a pate as quick as speaken, and I'll be more easy in mind knowen you have such a good staff in company.
Them above knows what they're about, to be sure, in a general way, and I bean't agwine to set up for knowen better.
Sir,[272] to win heaven five necessary things there been, That must be knowen to all mankind.
And we were there, I had no doubt I should be knowen all about, Where Conscience they would refuse.
Grete lobyes and longe, that loth were to swynke, Clotheden hem in copis to ben knowen from othere, And shopen hem heremites; here ese to haue.
The cause of this mischeefe was not knowen to any, but onelie to the conspirators; for the remnant of the citizens being no partakers, imagined, that the Englishmen had made hauocke in the towne, and put all to the sword.
But if I had knowen it before, the Curteins had bene drawen, I would haue caused his Monkes to haue lien in the Garret, and I my self would haue lodged where they do.
Wherefore I praye you if it chaunce that fortune be contrary vnto me, after my death, make it to be openly knowen what I am, and chiefly that the Duchesse may vnderstande it, for speciall purpose.
In the morning when she was redie, by such of her seruaunts, whome she beste trusted, shee sent for Gyges, who thought that shee had knowen nothing of that whiche chaunced.
I was Troian, as it is knowen out of drede; And if that yow remembre, I am Calkas, That alderfirst yaf comfort to your nede, And tolde wel how that ye sholden spede.
And hast thou wel knowen the causes,' quod she, 'why it is?
But what shal I seye of dignitees and of powers, the whiche ye men, that neither knowen verray dignitee ne verray power, areysen hem as heye as the hevene?
How ofte tyme hath it y-knowen be, The treson, that to womman hath be do?
Or elles they knowen ful wel whiche thinges that they oughten folwe, but lecherye and coveityse overthroweth hem mistorned; and certes, 130 so doth distemperaunce to feble men, that ne mowen nat wrastlen ayeins the vyces.
Walsingham saith) which was this: he gaue order, that all the gates of London should be streictlie kept and garded, so as none should come in or out, but such as were knowen to go to the king.
And when it pleased the Lords Generall to call a common Counsell (as often times they did vpon weightie matters best knowen to their honours) then they would cause an other kinde of flagge to be hanged put, which was the Redcrosse of S.
But that it is in no wise profitable to make knowen the true faith, by these helpes which are nothing else but vaine tales, euen =Viues= himselfe, in his first booke De tradendis disciplinis doth acknowledge.
Now to make them knowen (as behoueth) either we must do it by th'originall Greeke name or by the Latine, or by our owne.
And besides, Phanorinus being knowen for an Eunuke or gelded man, came by the same nippe to be noted as an effeminate and degenerate person.
Queenes also haue bene knowen studious, and to write large volumes, as Lady Margaret of Fraunce Queene of Nauarre in our time.
So as it may be knowen what we hold of them as borrowed, and what as of our owne peculiar.
And I haue knowenin my time such of them, as studied more vpon what apparel they should weare, and what countenaunces they should keepe at the times of their audience, then they did vpon th'effect of their errant or commission.
Yea they wyl not be knowenthat it is a medicine, for the only imaginacion sometyme maketh vs quake for feare.
I wolde neuer haue beleued it, excepte both I had knowen the chylde, and the doer of this crueltie perfitelye.
But I haue knowen childrẽ, whych before they wer .
I haue knowenmany rich men that haue dwelled in Pegu, and in their age they haue desired to go into their owne Countrey to die there, and haue departed with al their goods and substance without let or troubles.
And because it could neuer be knowen yet how this fire beganne, they haue and doe holde the same for a most sinister augurie, and an euident and manifest signe of their vtter ruine.
For the Jewes seyn, that they knowen wel, be hire Prophecyes, that thei of Caspye schulle been undre hire subieccioun, als longe as they had ben in subieccioun of hem.
And everyche of theise grete lordes knowen wel y now the attendance of hire servyse.
They all, and their offspring vse to weare red caps, (for so they are commaunded) because they may thereby beknowen from other men.
It is needlesse to speake of the height of the mountaines that I passed ouer, and of the danger thereof, it is so wel knowen already to the world: the heigth of them is marueilous, and I was the space of sixe dayes in passing them.
But nathales for hem thatknowen not, I schalle seye zou the cause.
These all goe clothed in greene, or at the least haue their turbant greene, to bee knowenfrom the other.
And therfore dur not the marchauntes passen there, but zif thei knowen wel the passages, or elle that thei han gode lodes men.
And the fowles of raveyne of alle the contree abouten knowen the custom of long tyme before, and comen fleenge aboyen in the eyr, as egles, gledes, ravenes and othere foules of raveyne, that eten flesche.
The bodie of King Harold could not be knowen by his face, it was so deformed by death, and by his wound; by his armour and by certaine markes vpon his body it was knowen.
Whan this wasknowen in the kinges house, one of the court gaue the kyng a propre mynion[178] horse.
This maner of folye was well knowen to the poet, whan he sayde: Incipit affari, mediaque in voce resistit.
To whome a carter of the towne, a mery fellowe, resorted and laye with her dyuers tymes, whan her husbande was on garde; and thys was so openly knowen that all the towne spake therof.
By this tale a man may se that, whan a precher dothe rebuke any synne or vyce wherin he is knowen openly to be gyltie him selfe, suche prechynge shall lytell edefye to the people.
Yes, quod he, I do it because I wyll be knowen and spoken of.
E209] "Marigolds are hote and drye, an herbe well knowen and as vsual in the kitchin as in the hal: the nature whereof is to open at the Sunne rising, and to close vp at the Sunne setting.
For which notable effects this herbe may worthily be called Benedictus or Omnimorbia, that is a salue for euery sore, notknowen to Physitians of old time, but lately reuealed by the speciall providence of Almighty God.
A dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yetknowen or broken by the upright man'.
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