And if he wolde ought by his sort it preve If that I lye, in certayn I shal fonde Distorben him, and plukke him by the sleve, Makinge his sort, and beren him on honde, He hath not wel the goddes understonde.
This is thy manere, To reve a wight that most is to him dere, 285 To preve in that thy gerful violence.
Bokkyng must remind my cousin Inglos about the indictments for treason of Heydon, 'that the man might be sent up to preve the said matter.
Also if ye can be any craft get a copy of the bille that Sir Miles Stapilton hath of the corte rolles of Gemyngham, that ye fayle not, but assay and do yowr devyr, for that shuld preve some men shamefully fals.
I was conquered, in trouth, that shuld preve but a full grete unstabulnes in me with more, &c.
Wherfore I send yow dyvers articlis in a bill closid herin, wheche preve that she was raveshid ayens hyr wel, what so ever she sey.
But though that he for wo was pale and wan, Yet made he tho as fresh a contenaunce, As though he shulde have led the newe daunce.
And why hir fader tarieth so longe To wedden hir un-to som worthy wight?
To reve a wight that most is to him dere, 285 To preve in that thy gerful violence.
Yowr mater is ferre spoken off, and blowyn wyde, and iff it preve noo better, I wolde that it had never be spoken off.
That Poul precheth of hem I wol nat preve it here; But Qui loquitur turpiloquium Is Luciferes hyne.
Thanne passe we over til Piers come, And prevethis in dede.
He had than Berwik in keping, 325 And maid ane preve gaddering, And gat him a gret cumpany Of wicht men armit jolely.
The Erll wes blith of his carping, And hicht him full fair rewardyng; And undirtuk that gat to ga, 580 And bad him soyn his leddir ma, And hald him preve quhill thai mycht Set for thair purpos on ane nycht.
The King wes of his spek angry, And askit his preve men in hy, Quhat at thame thocht wes best to do.
And nocht-for-thi thai com all thre In a covert that wes preve, 564 Quhar the King wes oft wount to ga, His preve nedis for to ma.
For, sith a womman was so pacient Un-to a mortal man, wel more us oghte 1150 Receyven al in gree that god us sent; For greet skile is, he preve that he wroghte.
What coude a sturdy housbond more devyse To preve hir wyfhod and hir stedfastnesse, And he continuing ever in sturdinesse?
Ther nedeth make of this noon argument; The verray preve sheweth it in dede.
They that be good, the preve sheweth every day, And otherwyse, gret villany, certayn.
Than,' quod she, 'wol I preve that shrewes as rathe shul ben in the knotte as the good; and that were ayenst kynde.
By Mars, that is the cheef of my bileve, So that I mighte liven and nat faile 2110 To-morwe for tacheve my bataile, I nolde never fro this place flee, Til that ye shuld the verray preve see.
By preve as wel as by auctoritee, That wikked fruit cometh of a wikked tree, 2395 That may ye finde, if that it lyketh yow.
Up-on my sorwes syke Have mercy, swete herte myn, Cryseyde!
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