To see howe redy still the devill is To helpe his servants!
Hye to the next key and inquire for one cald Seignior Mildewe and resolve him from mee that I have kept apointment: the somms redy and present to bee tendred.
His table dormant[65] in his halle alway Stood redy covered al the longe day.
The remenant of your jewels redy be remainder Within your chambur, dar I saufly sayn.
Mi graue I woll go till, Redy to rise vpperight, And so I schall fulfille 395 That I before haue highte.
Our thourch his rybbis a seker straik drewe he, Quhill leuir and lounggis men mycht all redy se.
Lat I the queyn to message redy dycht, And spek furth mar off Wallace trawaill rycht.
And this decret thar wit amang thaim fand; 630 Gyff Wallace wald apon him tak the croun, To gyff battaill thai suld beredy boun.
The Scottis ostis sone semblit in to sycht 355 Off thair enemyss, that was nochtredy dycht; Owt oft aray feill off the Sotheroun was.
Few men of fenss was left that place to kepe, Wemen and preistis wpon the wall can wepe: 480 For weill thai wend the flearis was thar lord; To tak him in thai maid thaim redy ford, Leit doun the bryg, kest wp the yettis wide.
To Schyr Jhon Grayme als mony ordand he, And fyve hundreth to Rychard off Lundye In that part was Wallace off Ricardtoun; In all gud deid he was ay redy boun.
Redy he was, in schip he went on cace, In Tayis mowth the hawyn but baid he tais, 1900 Quhar Wallace was than at the saylye still; And he rasawyt the harrold with gud will.
Maister Jhon Blar was redy to rawess; In gud entent syne bownyt to the mess.
He gert ane blaw, was in his cumpany; The redy men arayit thaim hastely.
Scho gat thaim meit, and in quiet thai baid Quhill it was nycht, syn redy sone thaim maid; 1320 Towart Arth hall rycht sodeynly thaim drew.
Muche people prayed for Cloudesle, That his lyfe saved myght be, And whan he made hym redy to shote, 255 There was many weeping ee.
Then Cloudesle cast his eyen asyde, And saw hys 'brethren twaine' 90 At a corner of the market place, Redy the justice for to slaine.
And Cloudesle lay redy there in a cart, Fast bound both fote and hand; And a stronge rop about hys necke, 75 All readye for to hange.
Certis now am I redyto referen þe goodes of þe body to þise forseide þinges abouen.
The whiche submission, with alle the circumstaunces ther of, the seyd William hath be at alle tymesredy to obeye.
Lynne redy with Herry Wodehous; and thei all be gon thedir this nyght.
Sir, the kyng hath sent unto me by Howard to be frendly to the lord Moleyns; not with stondyng myn service shall be redy at your comawndement in that matere er any othir by the grace of God, Who preserve you, body and sowle.
Item, I pray yow, write in hast to the Meir of Norwich to gif credens to me whan I come to hym, and if ye so do I shal shape their articles in billes in to a nother facion I trust, and make thaym redy and delyver thaym resonably wele.
I shall make redy youre forsebyll entres ayens Lenn, with the grace of God, Qwych have yow in Hese kepynge.
For Tudenham and H[eydon] wyll brynge with hem sufficiaunt counceyll as any kun they gete in London; And also the Cetye must purvey that as many sufficiaunt mene as can be gette or spoke to, that they be redy yf it happe of any tryall.
I had wrete in my letter or she knew ther of; and also she knew not of soredy a massanger as I had.
Right trusti and right welbelovid, we grete yo hertily well, prayng you specially that ye will make you redy to awayte upon us at Yippiswich toward the Parlement the viij.
I come to Redham, that I wend he shuld never a askapid it, nor not is leke to do but if he have redy help; and therfore he shal into Suffolk this next weke to myn aunt, for there is a good fesician, and he shal loke to hym.
And for as moche as we purpose with grace of Jesu to be at London within bryff tyme, we pray you that your place ther may be redy for us, for we wole sende our stuff thedir to for [tofore, i.
Item, sere, please youre maystership hit was leten me wete in ryght secrete wyse that a pyssaunce is redy to aryve in thre parties of this londe, by the meane of Kyng Herry and the Quene that wes, and by the Dewk Somercete and others, of vi.
Sir, that I may worchepfulli doo for you, ye shal fynde me redy be the grace of Jesu, whom I hertely beseche to have you in Hise mersyfull kepyng.
And twenty comb Hew Awstyns man had doun cartyd redy for to have led it to Yarmowth.
Like it you to do delyvere the pore man his goods ageyn, I am redy to answer you for elde and new as right wol.
Alnewyk, and he rydyth dayly to all thes castelys for to overse the segys; and if they want vataylys, or any othyr thyng, he is redy to pervey it for them to hys power.
I am the same man; I have sith I cam geten th'evidences in to myn handes, and I am redy to shewe them what lerned man her that ye wol assigne.
Sir Roger Dallyng after the disease of my fader, whiche is redy to be shewed.
Caleyse sworn contrary to the Kyngs well, and for defaute of there wages; and that Qwen Marget was redy at Boleyn with myche sylver to paye the soudyers, in cas they wold geve here entresse.
Loke, ye be redy alle and some, as a signal for the For that sha[l~l] ye welle knowe.
I prey yow beredy with all the acomptanttys belongyng to my Lady, at the ferthest within viij.
Therfore purvey an redy remedy, or ellis ye lese the tenauntis hertis and ye gretly hurt; for it is gret pety to here the swemefull[10-2] and petowse compleyntis of the pore tenauntis that come to me for comfort and socour sometime vi.
Also, modyr, I beseche yow that Dollys and his felawe may be sent to, that I may have my money redy ayenst that I come home, whyche is dew to be payid, for thys mater hathe cost me the settyng over.
And if ze shuld selle all this wode togedyr for redy sylver never lesse in the summa paste v.
My modyr wold fayn have yow at Mawtby; she rode thydyr ought of Norwyche on Saturday last past, to purvey your lodgyng redy ayenst your comyng.
And at my comyng home to my poore house, I sent for Robart Bernard, and shewid on to hym that I had mevyd your lordshepp for hym; and he in lyek forme is agreable to be redy by the xiiij.
And also, for as moche as I have not sufficient redy money, and that my dettis cannot be redely levied, therfore I will that money be made of all suche plate as I have for the haste of contentacion of my dettes that I owe of my buriallis.
And therfor, cousyn, I praye yow that ye wol not fayle for to be here, and what I canne do for yow, ye shall fynde it redy with Godes grace, Who have yow in His most blessed and assured kepyng.
Therefore I pray you that with alle diligence ye make you redy and com hidder, and bring with you six talle felaws in harnesse, and ye shall not lyse yowr labour, that knoweth God, Whoo have you in His keping.
Where un to for our old acquayntance to gedyr, ye shal fynde me ful redy after my powere, by the grace of our Lorde, Who ever kepe you, and send you myche worship and long prosperite.
Item, that Berney and Richard Wright geve suche folkys warnyng as wyll compleyne to be redy with her billes if thei list to have any remedy.
And yet it woll be thought ryght straunge of hem that have waged pepill to wage any more, for every towne hath waged and sent firth, and are redy to send forth, as many as thei ded whan the Kyng sent for hem be fore the feld at Lodlowe;[266.
It were right wele don ye awayted upon hes man comyng, that ye myght knowe the redyentent of my Lordes writyng.
And of yowr goode wyll and favour herynne I pray yow to late me have wetyng, and I schall beredy to wayte on yow at ony tyme and place wher ye wull assyne.
The said the Kyng hade wreton to dyvers persones here quych hade promysed men, queruppon I promysed a man, quych chall be redy at such tyme I have knowelege quere the shippyng chall be, to waite uppon yow, or quane the Kyng comaundes.
But, sire, syn ze have shewed me so kyndely zour gode maystership, I praye zou I may have your felaship redy at a nothir tyme to help to execute a commyssion touchyng Blake, and that thei may be redy withinne ij.
Please hit your right good maistership to wyte that on Sonday laste I sent yow many and divers lettres and writynges, by Lampet, of all matiers that I hadde knowlege at that tyme redy to answere.
Hewe at Fen, and was bide to makeredy the names, &c.
I hafe a rolle redy of the inditements, that they were indityd for trespase and extorsyon and oppressyon done to my Mayster Fastolff, in the keping of W.
And yef the processe may have so redy sped that it myght be had be fore my Maystyr Yelwerton in this vaccacyon tyme, it wer a gret counfort, &c.
I pray you be as good a mene for hym as ye may in this be halfe, as my verry trust is in you, and I schal be redy at all tymes to doo that may be to your plesur.
And Abraham ran vnto his beastes and fett a calfe that was tendre and good/ and gaue it vnto a yonge man which made it redy attonce.
And Abraha went a pace in to his tent vnto Sara ad sayde: make redy attonce thre peckes of fyne meale/ kneade it and make cakes.
And if I mowe in aught thy joye encrese, by my trouthe, on 190 my syde shal nat be leved for no maner traveyle, that I with al my mightes right blythly wol helpe, and ever ben redy you bothe to plese.
For ye ben out of charite And wilneth vengeaunce, as did Nero; 1250 To suffren I woll redy be; I drede not that thou canst do.
Who can the craft such craftes to espye But man, whos wit ayredy is t'aplye To thing that souneth in-to hy falshede?
For ever sobbinges and complayntes be redy refrete in his meditacions, as werbles in manifolde stoundes comming about I not than.
And if offence or wrything in hem be, Thou art ay redy upon hir wo to rewe, And hem receyvest with herte ful trewe.
Thai war governit full wittely; For it semit ay thai war redy For till defend thame at thar mycht, Gif thai assalyheit war in ficht.
And or thai cummyn in bataill be, 'We sall speid us swagat that we 'Sall be all redy till assembill.
Morte Arthure: "Ryde thrughte all the rowtte, rerewarde and other, Redy wayes to make, and rennkes full rowme.
Engynys alsua for till cast 625 Thai ordanit, and maid redy fast, And set ilk man syne till his ward.
Schir Edward went him for to se; About him slayne lay his menyhe All in a lump, on athyr hand, And he, redy to dey, throwand.
Thair schippys to the se thai set; And maid redy but langer let, 690 Ankyrs, rapys, bath saile and ar, And all that nedyt to schipfar.
The other story is of "a ladi that dwelled faste by the chirche, that toke every day so long time to make her redy that it made every Sunday the person of the chirche and the parisshenes to abide after her.
And on the xxi day of the moneth of May, accordyng as it had been publisshed, there the French knyghtes were redy in the place to furnish their enterprise.
The Tuesday, after masse, all suche as shulde just that day or wolde gyve the lookyng on, rode out of Calis and came to the place appoynted, and the Frenchmen were redy there to recyve them: the day was fayre and hot.
Wo was his cook but if his sauce were Poynaunt and sharpe and redy al his geere.
His table dormant in his hal alway Stood redy covered al the longe day.
Ipomydon' 245-6: They com to the castelle-gate, The porter wasredy there at.
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