Kyng Estmere threwe the harpe asyde, And swith he drew his brand; 270 And Estmere he, and Adler yonge, Right stiffe in stour can stand.
No; deare Syon, if I yet Do forget Thine affliction miserable, Let my nimble joynts become Stiffe and numme, 35 To touch warbling harpe unable.
I got barkes to goe out againe to tow ship into harbour, yf it remeaned calme, or else to bring good ashore; but the wind was so stiffe all day that they could doe nothing.
This mornyng very cold wether, being a greate snowe, the greatest I saw since our arivall in Japon, with a stiffe gale wind northerly, rack from W.
Again she kickt and prickt, and sate so stiffe and well, The Devill was not so plagu'd a hundred years in hell.
Sterne was their looke, like wild amazed steares, Staring with hollow eyes, and stiffe vpstanding heares.
So forth they rowed, and that Ferryman 2 With his stiffe oares did brush the sea so strong, That the hoare waters from his frigot ran, 4 And the light bubbles daunced all along, Whiles the salt brine out of the billowes sprong.
And a gyant that was both stiffe [and] strong, He lope now them amonge, And vpon his squier fiue heads he bare, Vnmackley made was hee.
Then they turned their horsses round about, To run the race more egarlye; Lord Phenix he was stiffe and stout, He has runn Thomas quite thorrow the thye.
Kyng Estmere threwe the harpe asyde, And swith he drew his brand, And Estmere he and Adler Yonge Right stiffe in stour can stand.
The Normans espying the aduantage to be ripe, made a stiffe stand, redoubled vpon the English, and pressing on with a furie equall to their fauourable fortune, with a cruell butchery brake into them.
For these causes and especially for inuesting and receiuing homage of Prelats, he had a stiffe strife with Anselme Archb.
Now the meanes whereby this victory was[21] assured, were the very same whereby it was atchieued; euen by a stiffe and rigorous hand.
Ffor when I came to Tearne Wadling, A bold barron there I fand, With a great club vpon his backe, Standing stiffe and strong; 10.
And when he came to the Tearne Wadling The baron there cold he finde, With a great weapon on his backe, Standing stiffeand stronge.
And there with him queene Guenever, 5 That bride so bright in bowre: And all his barons about him stoode, That were bothstiffe and stowre.
And syngle in a kyrtyll he stode, And abode the lyon fyers and wode, With that came the jaylere, And other men that wyth him were, And the lyon them amonge; His pawes were stiffe and stronge.
She witchd my brother to a carlish boore, And made himstiffe and stronge; And built him a bowre on magicke grounde, 155 To live by rapine and wronge.
He bare his clubbe upon his backe, Hee stoode bothe stiffe and stronge; 130 And, when he had the letters reade, Awaye the lettres flunge.
Besides, whereas vpon the stiffeclay it is conuenient to take as large furrowes as you please, vpon this kinde of gray clay you shall take as small furrowes as is possible.
VIII ‘Ther beene bold yeomen in merry England, Husbandmen stiffeand strong; Sharpè swords they done weare, Bearen bowes and arrowes longe.
II And there he hath with him Queene Genever, That bride soe bright in bower, And all his barons about him stoode, That were both stiffe and stowre[189].
XXIII And when he came to the Tearne Wadling, The baron there co’ld he finde, With a great weapon on his backe, Standing stiffe and stronge.
IX ‘Ffor when I came to Tearne Wadling, A bold barron there I fand, With a great club upon his backe, Standing stiffeand strong.
XI ‘To fight with him I saw noe cause; Methought it was not meet; For he was stiffe and strong with-all, His strokes were nothing sweete.
Helena, but we could not see the Portingal ship, still sayling with a stiffe Southeast wind, and about euening we were vnder the Island, which is very high lande, and may be seene at the least 14.
Ffor when I came to Tearne Wadling, A bold barron there I fand, With a great club vpon his backe, Standing stiffe and strong.
To fight with him I saw noe cause; Methought it was not meet; For he was stiffe and strong with-all, His strokes were nothing sweete.
And there he hath with [him] Queene Genever, That bride soe bright in bower, And all his barons about him stoode, That were both stiffeand stowre.
And when he came to the Tearne Wadling, The baron there cold he finde, With a great weapon on his backe, Standing stiffe and stronge.
She witch'd my brother to a carlish boore, And made him stiffe and stronge; And built him a bowre on magicke grounde, To live by rapine and wronge.
And there with him queene Guenever, That bride so bright in bowre; And all his barons about him stoode, That were both stiffe and stowre.
But make you ready yourstiffe bats and clubs, Rome, and her Rats, are at the point of battell, The one side must haue baile.
The King is mad: How stiffe is my vilde sense That I stand vp, and haue ingenious feeling Of my huge Sorrowes?
Lend me thy sword, Many a Nobleman lies starke and stiffe Vnder the hooues of vaunting enemies, Whose deaths are vnreueng'd.
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