But mighte me so fair a grace falle, That ye me for your servaunt wolde calle, So lowly ne so trewely you serve Nil noon of hem, as I shal, til I sterve.
Tristan's rose-bush twined itself around the pillars, the pillars are lacking now, and the clusters of flowers trail on the ground.
Listeth, lordes, in good entent, And I wol telle verrayment Of mirthe and of solas, &c.
Therfor my herte for ever I to hir hette; 185 Ne trewly, for my dethe, I shal not lette To ben hir trewest servaunt and hir knight.
But the servaunt traveileth in vayne, That for to serven doth his payne 2110 Unto that lord, which in no wyse Can him no thank for his servyse.
Ye, sir, from hennes forewardis; Hadde never your fader herebiforn 7305 Servaunt so trewe, sith he was born.
And this yere was bisshop Pecock abiurid, and his bokes brent at Paulis.
This is the only circumstance mentioned under the 1st Hen.
Custarde Roial with a leparde of golde sittyng theryn.
Also this same yere, the ix day of Jull, deyde quen Jane kyng Herry the forthe wyf, that before was duchesse of Bretayne.
And he recomaundith hym to yow, and said to me he was right glad that ye wold send to hym for anyservaunt ye had, saying that if he coud do any thyng for yow, and for any servaunt of yours, he wold do it feithfully.
Item, as ffor other means, I have sente my servaunt Richard Toring to London, whyche I hope shall brynge me goode tydyngs ageyn, and with in iiij.
Now therfore let me thyservaunt byde here for y^e lad/ & be my lordes bondman: & let the lad goo home with his brethern.
For I thy servaunt became suertie for the lad vnto my father & sayde: yf I bringe him not vnto the agayne.
And when we came vnto thyservaunt oure father/ we shewed him what my lorde had sayde.
So shall we thy serva[~u]tes brynge the gray hedde of thy servaunt oure father with sorow vnto the grave.
And yf it may be so, I am and shalbe yourservaunt in that I can or may, that knoith our Lord Jesu, whom I besech save and sende you a gode ende in all your maters, to your pleiser and worship everlastyng.
Paryse, my trusty frend and servaunt, and for the soule of John Kyrtlyng, parson of Arkesey, my right trusty chapeleyn and servaunt domysticall xxx.
And after that he was departed from me, ther cam a servaunt from my cosyn Twyer, and seid that his maister hade a letter from you that ze have set to be at Blakeney uppon Munday next comyng.
He that wille dysseyve hys servaunt yn maryage for so litell a thyng, he wold disseyve another frende yn a gretter thyng.
Thomas Hoddeson, a trusty servauntof myne, John Lyndford, and William Gunnour.
My servaunt tolde me ye desired to knowe what my Lord of Norffolk seid to me whan I spake of you; and he seid in asmeche as Howard[39.
And ther ys one Yon', a servaunt of the Lord Wyllughbye, whych pursewed thys mater; yff he were yn London, he coude geve gode enformacion uppon thys mater.
Ferthermore We do you to understonde that Roger Tillyngton, Skynnere, our welbeloved servaunt desurth gretly to be freman and enfranchised amongs you at þis tyme.
John Case, servaunt of the forseid Nicholas, and Henry Becham, servaunt of the seide Nicholas, and Thomas Page of Beston, sende gretyng in oure Lorde.
Also my servaunt Maryot wyll go fro my wyfe to my ryght gret hurte.
The covetous man is servaunt and nat mayster vnto riches: and the waster will nat longe be mayster therof.
This daie Willm̃ ffoster was fyned at xx{s} for his evell practize upon his patient being a servaunt of my Lord grace of Cant.
To Richard Neel my servaunt a cloak, doublett and hose.
To John Edwards my servaunt my white canvas Dublett that is at the parke with my Rownde velvett hose and my pheasaunt colored cloake with the sleeves and cape faced with russett velvett.
Also I give unto my servaunt John Edwards my Case with all the Instrumentes therein which is in my Chest which I have appointed for Deighton.
And yif thou wolt leden thy lyf in delices, every wight shal despisen thee and forleten thee, as thou that art thral to thing that is right foul 15 and brotel; that is to seyn, servaunt to thy body.
And som tyme we ben servaunt unto man As to the Erchebisschop Saynt Dunstan; And to the Apostolis servaunt was I.
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