That faste by the sonne, as hye As kenne mighte I with myn ye, Me thoughte I saw an egle sore, But that hit semed moche more 500 Then I had any egle seyn.
Atte laste I saugh a man, 2155 Which that I [nevene] naught ne can; But he semed for to be A man of greet auctoritee.
Wel semed ech of hem a fair burgeys, To sitten in a yeldhalle on a deys.
Anon ther is a noyse of peple bigonne 2660 For Ioye of this, so loude and heigh with-alle, It semed that the listes sholde falle.
A male tweyfold on his croper lay, It semed that he caried lyte array.
He semed freendly to hem that knewe him noght, But he was feendly bothe in herte and thoght.
Than semed it ye hadde a greet chiertee Toward mankinde; but how than may it be That ye swiche menes make it to destroyen, Whiche menes do no good, but ever anoyen?
Than semed me ther was a parlement 2970 At Athenes, up-on certeyn poynts and cas; Among the whiche poynts y-spoken was To have with certeyn contrees alliaunce, And have fully of Thebans obeisaunce.
Ye semed by your speche and your visage The day that maked was our mariage!
His hakeney, that was al pomely grys, So swatte, that it wonder was to see; 560 It semed he had priked myles three.
These were his wordis by and by; It semed he loved me trewly.
Hir throte, as I have now memoire, 945 Semed a round tour of yvoire, Of good gretnesse, and noght to grete.
Whan thou hast lost bothe drede and fere, It semed wel she was not here.
Hir eyen semed anoon she wolde Have mercy; fooles wenden so; But hit was never the rather do.
She was euer full of payne, and it semed to her, as though her hart would haue burst: she strayned up much fleamy and bloudy matter.
After abundance of meate her belly semed neuer the fuller, that she marueiled which waye it went.
Then went it with such a flash of fyer out of the windowe, that all the Parlor semed on fyer, to her onlye.
Who also as it semed Iudged adulterie as moste horrible and detestable, in his .
Whan the hermyte had rehersed manye of the dukes seruantes wyues, and the secretarye merely laughenge had writen them, he semed as he had al said.
The man laye stylle in the floore, and so helde his brethe, and closed his eies, that hesemed for certayne to be deade.
Wel semed ech of hem a fair burgeys To sitten in a yeldhall[191] on a deys.
Ye semed by your speche and your visage The day that maked was our mariage; and surely no direct accusation of cruelty could show with equal clearness how deeply she has suffered.
Yet hoved ther an hundred In howves of selk, Sergeantz it bi-semed 420 That serveden at the barre, Pleteden for penyes And poundes the lawe; And noght for love of our Lord Unclose hire lippes ones.
I seigh somme that seiden Thei hadde y-sought seintes; 100 To ech a tale that thei tolde Hire tonge was tempred to lye, Moore than to seye sooth, It semed bi hire speche.
This Troilus, with herte and eres spradde, Herde al this thing devysen to and fro; And verraylich him semedthat he hadde The selve wit; but yet to lete hir go 1425 His herte misforyaf him ever-mo.
And because that this might the better be brought to passe, it semed good vnto him, to alter their names, naming the son Perotto, and the doughter Gianetta.
After this debating of the matter, the Iudges wayed with argumentes of both parts whiche semed so doubtfull vnto them, that knowing not howe to giue sentence, they suspended the processe.
Claudius the plaintife began to renewe his sute: and before the father of the mayden could make answere to that plea, Appius gaue sentence that the mayde was bonde: which sentence semed so cruell, as it appalled the whole multitude.
But after she had searched an infinite number of meanes to come to that which she desired, there was one that semed moste expedient for that purpose, and of least perill aboue other.
The matter semed to Abdolominus like a dreame, and demaunded of theim, if their wittes were sounde, that did deride him in that sorte.
The bordes were spred in right litel space; The ladies sat, ech as hem semed best.
And with these wordes I brast out to wepe, that every teere of myne eyen, for greetnesse semed they boren out the bal of my sight, and that al the water had ben out-ronne.
Power me thought that I had to kepe fro myne enemyes, and me semed to shyne in glorie of renome as manhood asketh in mene; for no wight in myne administracion coude non yvels ne trechery by sothe cause on me putte.
To feste hem al he did his diligence, And wel he couth, right as it semed me.
But he semed as though he had mocked/ vnto his sonnes in law.
Rahel/ and they semed vnto him but a fewe dayes/ for the loue he had to her.
Then she sayde vnto Abraham: put awaye this bondemayde and hyr sonne: for the sonne of this bondwoman shall not be heyre with my sonne Isaac: But the wordessemed verey greavous in Abrahams syghte/ because of his sonne.
And it semed by her countenaunce, that al the paynes she had indured were most pleasaunt pastimes, for that she suffred the same for his sake, whome she loued best.
Long time continued this perfect frendship: betwene whom there was but one will and one woorde, no difference in either of them: in so muche as they not onely semed to be two brethren, but also they appeared in al semblances to be but one man.
And because the offence of my wife semed so great as the doing of her to death was not sufficient to punish her, I deuised a torment which in mine opinion is worse vnto her than death.
Nowe Emerentiana, whiche earnestly had marked those sweet and pleasaunt woordes, like a wyse gentlewoman, semed to geue no eare thereunto, and made him no aunswere at all.
In his honde he helde a fawchon all blody ¶ It semed by his chere as he wold make a frai ¶ A baudryck of Isykles about his necke gaye ¶ He had and aboue on hygh on his hede.
He sauoured lyke a fyssher of hy{m} i spak before ¶ It semedby his clothes as they had be wet.
However the latter project semed to be more desperate then the former.
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