The lord of lif and of light Tho leide hise eighen togideres.
This Lecherie leide on With a janglynge chiere, And with pryvee speche And peyntede wordes; And armede hym in ydelnesse, And in heigh berynge.
Vndelt hes leide quor-so hes tok, Undivided he laid them where-so he took (brought) them.
And thei upon him thanne leide 1080 His name, and god of medicine He hatte after that ilke line.
For al his hole herte he leide Upon Constance, and seide he scholde For love of hire, if that sche wolde, Baptesme take and Cristes feith Believe, and over that he seith 900 He wol hire wedde, and upon this Asseured ech til other is.
Nectanabus, which hath his deth, Yit while him lasteth lif and breth, To Alisandre he spak and seide That he with wrong blame on him leide 2320 Fro point to point and al the cas He tolde, hou he his Sone was.
This tirant, thogh he lyhe softe, Out of his bed aros fulofte, 4960 And goth aboute, and leide his Ere To herkne, til that alle were To bedde gon and slepten faste.
And Troilus upon Criseide Also his ferste love leide In holi place, and hou it ferde, As who seith, al the world it herde; 7600 Forsake he was for Diomede, Such was of love his laste mede.
With that this worthi kinges wif 1190 Honestely thei token oute, And maden fyres al aboute; Thei leide hire on a couche softe, And with a scheete warmed ofte Hire colde brest began to hete, Hire herte also to flacke and bete.
Tho leide I my rewle over this forseide day, and fond the point of my rewle in the bordure up-on the firste degree of Aries, a litel with-in the degree; and thus knowe 10 I this conclusioun.
Than leide I doun softely my compas, and sette the degree of the longitude up-on the orisonte; tho tok I and wexede my label in maner of a peyre tables to resceyve distinctly the prikkes of my compas.
Wi moston wel swika, and Nearchus wiste ella sa pront to birjuchte that wi inna Middelse leideer thrja monatha forby weron.
So grossen Ruhm erstritten Dietrich seit alter Zeit, 25 In seinem Zorne tobte Gunter so im Streit, Er war nach seinem Leide von Herzen feind dem Mann; Ein Wunder musst’ es heissen, dass da Herr Dietrich entrann.
And than heleide a sege to the cite of Rone and contynued; and duryng the sege the maire of London was chosen upon seint Edwardes day.
And after Eastrene he leide sege to Chirburgh, and contynued it unto Michelmas, at whiche tyme bothe towne and castel of Chirburgh was yolden to hym.
And after Eastern the kyng leide a sege to Lovers, and wan it: and afterward he leide a sege and wanne Pount Large.
Also the same yere, about Alhalowen tide, the kyng leide a sege to Falowes, and contynued it to the xx day of Decembre: and than thei of the towne desired to trete with the kyng.
And than the kyng leide strong sege to the castel, which was yolden to hym.
Thre hundreth he led of men in armyss brycht; To leide the range on fute he maid him ford.
To leide his net, a child furth with him yeid; But he, or nowne, was in a fellowne dreid.
To Schortwode schaw leide wittaill and wyn wicht, And houshald ger, baithe gold and siluer brycht.
Quhen thai war mett, weylle ma na ten thousand, Na chyftane was that tyme durst tak on hand, To leide the range on Wallace to assaill.
The same view was better engraved at Leide by Vander Aa.
Edwarde the thrid, whiche by many yeris leide segis and had batailes withe Philip de Valois and Johan of Fraunce, occupieris of that kingdom.
He mounted upon his hors, and leide his spere in the rest, and withe a mightie courage renne feerslie upon the saide Arnus being in the myddille of his oost, and fortuned by chaunce that bothe of hem wounded[161] othir to dethe.
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