Normaundy and abyllyments of werr, to destroy the comens of Kent whan that they come to Southewerk; and therfor he seyd playnly that I shulde lese my hede.
Chathedrall chirch of Norwich, he smyting at me, whilis on of his felawis held myn armes at my bak, as the berer herof shall mor playnly inform yow.
But playnly to the effect right for to go, In Ioye and suerte Pandarus hem two A-bedde broughte, whan that hem bothe leste, And thus they ben in quiete and in reste.
No, I wold you shuld know it, there is no lyuynge tode that more euydêtly dothe expresse hymselffe than it dyd there playnly apere.
He cowld nat denay but that they were sette there nat longe agoo, and also the mater dyd playnly testyfye ye same.
In tymes paste bothe Byshopes & Chanones were wontyde to be monkes, as may be playnly prouyd by many argumentes.
There was none that had sutch liberty to speke his mynde playnly to the kinge as hee had, whych hee vsed after sutch sorte, that he seemed to doe it by no authority, but by sufferaunce.
Palente the cite of Evander kyng, As Virgill playnly makis rehersyng, Stude quhar in Rome now stant the cheif palyce; 25 This sam buke eyk, in mair hepit malyce, On the self ryver of Touyr says playnly Eneas dyd hys cyte edify.
But playnly to the effect right for to go, In Ioye and seurte Pandarus hem two A-bedde broughte, whan hem bothe leste, And thus they ben in quiete and in reste.
Heroff as now I will no forthir reid; Bot in my mater, as I off for began, I sall conteyn als playnly as I can.
My office our her playnly I resing; “I think no mar to tak on me sic thing.
Was playnly set to wyn out off bondage Scotland agayn fra payn and felloun sor; He woude he suld, or ellis de tharfor.
I haiff had blayme to say the suthfastnes; Tharfor I will bot lychtly ryn that cace, Bot it be thing that playnly sclanderit is; For sic I trew thai suld deyme me no myss.
I will nocht bid gret lordis with ws fayr; “For myn entent I will playnly declar.
The Inglissmen tuk playnly part to fle; On horsis some, to strenthis part, can found To socour thaim, with mony werkand wound.
The Inglissmen began playnly to fle; Than byschope Beik full sodeynly thai se; 240 And Robert Bruce, contrar his natiff men: Wallace was wa, fra tyme he couth him ken.
The byschop said, ‘Playnly ye may nocht wend; ‘In to the north for men I rede yow send.
Quhen Wallace twyss, throw grace, had fred Scotland, 1875 This tyran king tuk playnly wpon hand, For sic desyr that he mycht haiff no rest, He thocht till hym of it to mak conquest.
Quhar herd ye euir ony in sic a thrang, 650 In hungyr so slepand, and wapynlass, So weill recouer as Wallace did this cass; Playnly befors vencust his enemyss fyve?
Right fayr lady, god mote I never plese, 365 If I seke other right, as in this case, But for to shewe you playnly my disese And your mercy to abyde, and eke your grace.
And alder-last unto her womanhede And to her mercy me I recommaunde, That lye now here, betwixe hope and drede, Abyding playnly what she list commaunde.
Wherefor : now playnly : I wol : my style : dresse.
Wherfor now playnly I wol my style dresse Of one to speke, at nede that wol nat fayle; Alas!
Item, I truste he wylbe your gode fader, for John Say hath told hym playnly of hys demenyng ayenst you, and told hym that he had the lasse favour for your sake, &c.
Than the seyd Edmonds answerd hym ageyn, and seyd playnly he was to blame for to reporte so of your masterchep, for he knoythe veryly he seyd on trewly of you and of my master your son bothe, and ther on he wold take a hothe.
Call shall enforme you of thys maters, and mo other, moreplaynly than I may do wryte at thys tyme.
Nowe, if pleasure brynge felicitie wyth it, or helpe in anye wyse vnto the furderaunce of vertue: we seeplaynly that this kynde of lyfe is fardest from al pleasures.
By these histories ye may playnly see / what happenith vnto the weake through that familiar conuersacion which they haue with the vnfaithful.
This place therfor doth make most against our men / and euen the same wayes which they go about to excuse their facte / by the same it is most playnly proued to be synne.
And the same his meaning he vtterith most playnly to the Galathians / where he saithe.
These wordes ar so playn that they neede not to be expownded: In which / this conuersacion of which we now do entreate / is most simplye / and playnly forbidden.
May in the xxiii^{th} yere of his reigne and other his speciall letteres sithens directed vnto you for that purpose it dothe more playnly appere.
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