Thom Halyday went with him to the toun; Eduuard Litill and Kerlé maid thaim boun, Till ane ostrye Thom Halyday led thaim rycht, And gaiff commaund thair dyner suld be dycht.
Sotheroun or than off Torfychan fur, Thar passage maid in to Slamanan mur; In till a playn set tentis and palyon, South hald Fawkyrk, a litill abon the ton.
Als Inglissmen had than full litill dreid; 1265 Fra Fyff was tynt, the war thai trowyt to sped.
Edward Litill with his mastir furth socht 1085 Till ane oystry, and with a woman met.
In Lanryk duelt a gentill woman thar, A madyn myld, as my buk will declar, 585 Off auchteyn yeris ald orlitill mor off age; Alss born scho was till part off heretage.
Hys horss him bur in feild quhar so him lyst; For off him selff as thanlitill he wyst.
Graym turnd tharwith, and smate that knycht in teyn, 385 Towart the wesar, a litill be neth the eyn.
Sad of contenance he was bathe auld and ying, Litill of spech, wyss, curtass and benyng.
Off purwiaunce thai fand litill or nane; Befor that tyme thar wictaill was all gayne.
A mariage als thai gert ordane him till, The lady Ferss, off power and hye blud: Bot tharoff com till his lyff litill gud.
Sic reulle be rycht is litill [till] allow: Me think we suld in barrat mak thaim bow At our power, and so we do feill syss.
Rycht stark he was, and had bot litill gayne, Thus Wallace wist: had he beyne left allayne.
The Kyng than wynkit a litill we, And slepit nocht full ynkurly, Bot gliffnyt up oft suddandly; 184 For he had drede of thai thre men, That at the tothir fyre war then.
For nane wate, in how litill space, 255 'That God umquhile will send his grace.
Then to the hycht thai held thar way, And huntyt lang quhill off the day; And soucht schawys, and setis set; Bot thai gat litill for till ete.
For gud knychtis that war worthy, For litill enchesoune or than nane, Thai hangyt be the nekbane.
All thai consentit to that saw, And than, in-till ane litill thraw, Thair four battalis ordanit thai.
Sidenote: 1307] How Tydeus overcame Fifty] With that a litillrod he fand, Up toward the crag strikand.
In-to that tyme the nobill King, With his flot and a few menyhe, Thre hundir I trow thai mycht weill be, 16 Is to the se, furth of Arane A litill forrow the evyn gane.
Item, if ye pas London, send me ageyn my chene and the litill chene that I lent you be for, be sum trusty person; and if ye wull have my good wille, eschewe such thyngis as I spake to you of last in owr parisch chirch.
I wuld not in no wyse ye shuld put your self in no daunger to hym but as litill as ye may; for if ye do, it shall be right wele remembred you her after.
I have non man at this tyme to avayte upon me that dare be avowyd but Litill John.
But schorte efter, the Ingliche schippis mett with Capitain Culein, and seased him and his schippis,[37] quhiche maid thame a litill to muse.
Whitther it was law or not, we dispute litill thairintill; but it was a preparative to otheris that after war served with that same measure.
Upon that informatioun was the Martikkis, with tuo schippis, and sum Captanis and horse, directed to cum to Scotlande; but litill to thair awin advantage, as we sall after heare.
One thing is certane, to wit, The Quene was litill offended at his eschaiping.
Which thing Paule puttith in practise when he biddith / that the Corinthians shuld excommunicat the fornicator / les that a litill leauẽ shuld soure the whole lumpe of dowe.
For yet a very litill while / and he that shall comme / will comme / and wyll not tarye.
If sum do remayne ther / it wil brust forthe at lẽgthe / and a litill leauẽ will soure the whole lũpe of dowe.
When they drew near, Tritill killed it, Litill took out its heart for the young man to cook, and both began quickly to turn the horns into drinking cups.
The young man thanked them for their counsel, and Tritill and Litill then took leave of him, saying that for the present he would need them no more.
Thair maister wes ane rud man as thay wer, and tuke bot ane litill part thairof.
Lett nott the vane exhortatioun of thame that regardis litill of the weall and strenth of bayth our Houssis, sture up your Lordschip, as thei wald to do aganis God, your awin conscience, and the weall of your posteritie for ever.
Myself, (said sche,) wold mak litill conscience to tak from all that sorte thair lyves and inheritance, yf I myght do it with als honest ane excuise.
Item, to Robene Bertoun, for the fraucht of anelitill schip, in the quhilk the said Maister Johne past in Flanderes, £25.
Thow Heretike sayest, That it is vane to buyld to the honour of God costlie Churches, seing that God remaneth not in Churches made by menis handis, nor yit can God be in so litill space, as betuix the Preastis handis.
Crossed out:--‘and to my litill Doughters Anne and Grace.
I shall not for get semblable to requyte as shall lye in my litill power.
And I am agast that we get som fray Betwixt vs both; 185 For she is full tethee, For litill oft angr'e; If any thyng wrang be, Soyne is she wroth.
And [th]anne is it nedfull to make it to recoueren his vertue a[gh]en, or ell it is of litill value.
And the folk of [th]at contree ben lyghtly dronken, and han but litill appetyt to mete.
Where fore I thynk we spede and fare all the wers; for it is a fowle slaunder that he was so wurchepful beried and his qwethword not performed, and so litill do for hym sithen.
First, I did write to his maistership a litill booke of Pheesyk, for which I had paide by Sir Thomas Leevys[2-2] in Westminster xxd.
Lavynya has the cost na litill thyng: Nor thou na schame nedys thynk in na part, That of Eneas hand thou kyllit art.
I hope it sal profyte, na litill thyng, My gret help done thame and suppowellyng; 30 For amang kynd folkis this is na dreid, Weil is remembrit the ald thankful deid.
That rewthfull harm, and that myschews cace, Felys baith Ascanyus and my faderis gost, 5 For thai na litill thyng tharby hes lost.
The thre first bukis he has ourhippyt quyte, Salfand a litill twychyng Polidorus, And the tempest furth sent by Eolus, And that full sempilly on hys awyn gys; 15 Virgill thame wrait all on ane other wys.
For gud knychtis that war worthy, For litill enchesoune, or than nane, Thai hangyt be the nekbane.
His petows mynd was for his men so wrocht, That off him selff litill as than he roucht.
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