To this entente he coude never fyne; To fisshen hir, he leyde out hook and lyne.
And of this thing ful sone his nedes leyde 135 On hem that sholden for the tretis go, And hem for Antenor ful ofte preyde To bringen hoom king Toas and Criseyde; And whan Pryam his save-garde sente, Thembassadours to Troye streyght they wente.
M) Equyte to be leyde ouer, pety & mercy to prevayll!
F) "Equyte to be leyde ouer party, & mercy to prevayll.
M) O quyte to be leyde ouer, perty & mercy to prevayll!
For a kyng of Fraunce boughte theise relikes somtyme of the Jewes; to whom the Emperour had leyde hem to wedde, for a gret summe of sylvre.
And thus, with feyned flaterye and Iapes, 705 He made the person and the peple his apes.
His reputation as one of the foremost of our literary critics is thoroughly established, and needs no comment.
And in a tour, in angwish and in wo, 1030 Dwellen this Palamoun and eek Arcite, For evermore, ther may no gold hem quyte.
The sesoun priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his sleep to sterte, And seith, 'Arys, and do thyn observaunce.
He leyde him bare the visage on the bere, Therwith he weep that pitee was to here.
Here have I eten many a mery meel'; And fro the bench he droof awey the cat, 1775 And leyde adoun his potente and his hat, And eek his scrippe, and sette him softe adoun.
The pryde of man and beste he leyde adoun, Wher-so he cam, un-to the worldes ende.
A sturdy harlot wente ay hem bihinde, That was hir hostes man, and bar a sak, 1755 And what men yaf hem, leyde it on his bak.
He taketh hir, and kisseth hir ful ofte, And leyde him doun to slepe, and that anon.
I leyde the pleages ther fore, I thought not but that your uncle shuld a boroed them owte, and I to have had my pleages, as well as he his; never the less I shall be the warer how I shall dele here aftyr.
Playter wroot to me that she wolde have leyde owt for me Cli.
London, in so moche that, er he come fro London, he had for my sakeleyde v.
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