He caste him in the fire al hote; For sothe he hadde a rigħt gode cloute.
Non de solo, ich seyde, For sothe vivit homo, Nec in pane et pabulo, The paternoster witnesseth.
And also I see coveitise Catel to fongen, 290 That Christ hath clerliche forboden, And clenliche destrueden; And sayde to his sueres For sothe on this wyse, 'Nought thy neighbors good Coveyte in no tyme.
For whan a werkman hath wroght, Than many men se the sothe What he were worthi for his werk, And what he hath deserved; And noght to fonge bifore, For drede of disalowyng.
Thou mayst the sothe of it not witen, Though in thee it were writen.
I wol noght serven Venus ne Cupyde For sothe as yet, by no manere wey.
Thou felle in mischeef thilke day, Whan thou didest, the sothe to say, Obeysaunce and eek homage; 4645 Thou wroughtest no-thing as the sage.
Of large langage / for sotheye must be shent And whan ye speke / speke ye with good entent [Sidenote: and that pleasantly.
And shortly, al thesothe for to seye, He was so fallen in despeyr that day, That outrely he shoop him for to deye.
Now wryte hir thanne, and thou shalt fele sone A sothe of al; ther is no more to done.
Therfor, yif that Fortune spake with thee for hir-self in this manere, for-sothe thou ne haddest nat what thou mightest answere.
And fynally, the sothe for to seyne, 1035 He refte hir of the grete of al hir peyne.
And at the laste, yif that any wight wene a thing to ben other weyes thanne it is, it is nat only unscience, but it is deceivable opinioun ful diverse and fer fro the sothe of science.
But shortly, lest thise tales sothe were, She dorste at no wight asken it, for fere.
The sothe is, that the twinninge of us tweyne Wol us disese and cruelliche anoye.
For wel sit it, the sothe for to seyne, A woful wight to han a drery fere, And, to a sorwful tale, a sory chere.
Thus he likneth in his logik The leeste fowel oute, {244} And wheither he be saaf or noght saaf The sothe woot no clergie, Ne of Sortes ne of Salomon No scripture kan telle.
And fro thens to Suhthampton, unto that strond, For sothe he wold no longer there dwell: XV hundryd shippys redy there he fond, With riche sayles and heye topcastell.
Who can the sothe gesse 620 Why Troilus hath al this hevinesse?
Johne toke the munkes horse be the hed, For sotheas I yow say, So did Muche the litulle page, For he shulde not stirre away.
Johne toke his leve at oure kyng, The sothe as I yow say; 235 The next way to Notyngham To take he zede the way.
He robbyt me and my felowes bothe Of xx marke in serten; If that false owtlay be takyn, For sothe we wolde be fayne.
Thus Johne gate Robyn Hode out of prisone, Sertan withoutyn layne; When his men saw hym hol and sounde, 320 For sothe they were ful fayne.
Johne, and Moche, and Wylle Scathlok, For sothe as I yow say, Thir slew oure men vpon oure wallis, And sawtene vs euery day.
When the scheref was on-slepe Dronken of wine and ale, Litul Johne and Moche for sothe Toke the way vnto the jale.
Thryes thorow at them he ran, Then for sothe as I yow say, And woundyt many a modur sone, And xii he slew that day.
Thomas rathly up he rase, And ran ouer mountayn hye, If it be sothe the story says, He met her euyn at Eldyn Tre.
Bot now it stant al otherwise; 2580 Thei speken faste of thilke Ston, Bot hou to make it, nou wot non After the sothe experience.
This king out of his swefne abreide, And he upon the morwe it seide Unto the clerkes whiche he hadde: Bot non of hem the sothe aradde, Was non his swevene cowthe undo.
Mi Sone, I have it left for schame, Be cause I am here oghne Prest; Bot for thei stonden nyh thi brest Upon the schrifte of thi matiere, Thou schalt of hem the sothe hiere: And understond nou wel the cas.
Wherof as thanne he knew non other, 1730 Bot sodeinly the jugge he nom, Which corrupt sat upon the dom, In such a wise and hath him pressed, That he the sothe him hath confessed Of al that hath be spoke and do.
And hou it stant of that degree Yit mai a man the sothe se: God mai amende it, whan he wile, I can ther to non other skile.
Thus myht thou se the sothe plein, That of tomoche and of tolyte Upon the Princes stant the wyte.
And thus the sothe experience To themperour yaf such credence, That al his trist and al his feith So sikerliche on hem he leith, Of that he fond him so relieved, That thei ben parfitli believed, As thogh thei were goddes thre.
As an old ballad expresses it: Than for sothe that knyght comely, In Agincourt feld he faught manly; Thorow grace of God most mighty, He had bothe the felde, and the victory.
XLIII ‘He robbyt me and my felowes bothe Of twenti marke in serten; If that false owtlay be takyn, Ffor sothe we wolde be fayn.
The work deals with the Ten Commandments, the seven deadly sins, informs us that "the sothe noblesse comth of the gentyl herte .
I am a sofereyn semely, that ye se butt seyld; Non swyche onder sonne, the sothe for to say .
And by thise samples folwinge in special, maystow wirke for sothe in every signe of the 5 zodiak.
AB; in general C; yn special P; the reading sonne points to sothe, and makes it very probable that for sothe is the true reading.
Soothly, the preest that haunteth deedly sinne, he may be lykned to the aungel of derknesse transformed in the aungel of light; he semeth aungel of light, but for sothe he is aungel of derknesse.
A theef he was for sotheof corn and mele, And that a sly, and usaunt for to stele.
For sothe he was a worthy man with-alle, But sooth to seyn, I noot how men him calle.
For if it were reson that a man sholde haten his enemy, for sothe god nolde nat receiven us to his love that been hise enemys.
Ben they, us sely men for to deceyve, And from a sothe ever wol they weyve; By this Marchauntes Tale it preveth weel.
And for comers hereafter shullen fully, out of denwere, al the sothe knowe of these thinges in acte, but as they wern, I have put it in scripture, in perpetuel remembraunce of true meninge.
Shal not the loos of thy frendes ayenward dequace thilke enfame, and saye they graunted a sothe without a stroke or fighting?
For many men they maken shende; 850 They weten well, the sothe I say, But the divell hath foule hem blend.
But now it greveth me to remembre these dyvers sentences, in 160 janglinge of these shepy people; certes, me thinketh, they oughten to maken joye that a sothe may be knowe.
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.
But ye see wel that false opinion of the people for my trouthe, in telling out of false conspyred maters; and after the jugement of these clerkes, I shulde not hyde the 190 sothe of no maner person, mayster ne other.
Who-so list not byleve, whan a sothe tale is shewed, a dewe and a deblys his name is entred.
So may a man the sothewite and knowe, That pees is good for every king to have; The fortune of the werre is ever unknowe, 290 But wher pees is, ther ben the marches save.
The line, as printed in Thynne, stands thus: 'denwere al the sotheknowe of these thinges.
Thus with suche thinges the tonges of yvel shal ben stilled; els fully to graunte thy ful meninge, for-sothe ever was and ever it shal be, that myn enemyes 80 ben aferde to truste to any fightinge.
But of this [the] contrarie of al lovers is bileved, and for a sotheopenly determined 20 to holde.
It is said in the Psalm, and ful sothe hit is bihire.
I read in books, thauh ic thonne that sothe repie.
Natheles the sothe is this, that Tartarynes and thei that duellen in the grete Asye, thei camen of Cham.
Than for sothe that knyyt comely In Agincourt feld he fauyt manly, Thorow grace of God most myyty 20 He had bothe the felde, and the victory.
Thou hast lore thin cardinals at thi meste nede; 114 Ne keverest thou hem nevere for nones kunnes mede, For sothe y the telle.
Johne toke his leve at cure kyng, The sothe as I yow say; The next way to Notyngham To take he zede the way.
Thus Johne gate Robyn Hode out of prisone, Sertan withoutyn layne; When his men saw hym hol and sounde, For sothe they were ful fayne.
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