Than bespake a proude fostere, That stode by our kyngës kne: ‘Yf ye wyll see good Robyn, Ye must do after me.
Have here the best, Alyce my wyfe,’ Sayde Wyllyam of Cloudeslye, ‘By cause ye so boldly stode me by Whan I was slayne full nye.
Up thenstode that gentyll knyght, To the abbot sayd he, ‘To suffre a knyght to knele so longe, Thou canst no curteysye.
All men voyded, that them stode nye, Whan the justice fell to the grounde, And the sherife fell nye hym by; Eyther had his deathës wounde.
All the people of Notyngham They stode and behelde; They sawe nothynge but mantels of grene That covered all the felde.
Robyn stode in Bernesdale, And lenyd hym to a tre; And bi him stode Litell Johnn, A gode yeman was he.
Whan they had theyr bowes i-bent, Theyr takles fedred fre, Seven score of wyght yonge men Stode by Robyn’s kne.
The mayre of Carlile forth com was, And wyth hym a full great route: These three yemen dred hym full sore, For theyr lyvës stode in doute.
The abbot sayd to his covent, There he stode on grounde, ‘This day twelfe moneth came there a knyght And borowed foure hondred pounde.
The boteler was full uncurteys, There he stode on flore; He start to the botery And shet fast the dore.
Still stode the proude sherief, A sory man was he; ‘Wo the worthe, Raynolde Grenelefe, Thou hast betrayed nowe me.
Scarlok stode full stil and loughe, And sayd, ‘By God Almyght, Johnn may gyve hym gode mesure, For it costeth hym but lyght.
And whanne the seid lord Moleyns man delyvered these wrettys, Lomnour stode be side and aspied it.
Thomas stode up in the stede, And behelde the lady gay, Her heyre hang down about hyr hede, The tone was blak, the other gray.
Dyvers knyghtes and squyers, that were there present, and herde hym say so, stode styll, and durst nat speke, but they remembered his wordes.
Thomas stode as still as stone, And behelde that ladye gaye; Than was sche fayr and ryche anone, And also ryal on hir palfreye.
XXVI But Robyn toke out a two-hond sworde, That hangit down be his kne; Ther as the Schereff and his menstode thyckust, Thethurwarde wolde he.
XXXIX Litull John stode at a wyndow in the mornyng, And lokid forth at a stage[987]; He was war wher the munke came ridyng, And with hym a litul page.
Caesar at this sentence stode so stil, as whilom dyd the wyfe of Loth, by seing the City on fire, and consume into ashes: by the sight whereof she was conuerted into a stone of Salt.
And when he saw no man else, but the seat royal, where his father was wont to sitte readye furnished, with a sorrowful heart stode stil, and at length demaunded where his Father was.
Pietro, not able to imagine what was his maister's intent, stode somewhat aloofe to beholde his maister's gestes and Countenance.
At those words Angelica stode so astonned and confused, and so besides hir selfe, like as wee see one distraught of sense that feeleth himself attached with some amaze of the Palsey.
The sonne not able to abide the discourse of his parents affaires, could not comprehend any thing at that pitiful meting: but stode stil so astonned, as though he had bin fallen from the clouds.
Both the armies stode in readines before their campes, rather voyde of present perill then of care: for the state of either of their Empires, consisted in the valiance and fortune of a fewe.
And he toke butter & mylcke and the calfe which he had prepared/ and sett it before them/ and stode hymselfe by them vnder the tree: and they ate.
And he sayde vnto them heare I praye yow this dreame which I haue dreamed: Beholde we were makynge sheues in the felde: and loo/ my shefe arose and stodevp right/ and youres stode rounde aboute and made obeysaunce to my shefe.
But Abraham stode yet before y^e LORde/ & drewe nere & sayde Wylt thou destroy the rightwes with the wyked?
Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: in my dreame me thought I stode by a ryvers syde/ and there came out of the ryver vij fatt fleshed ad well fauored kyne/ and fedd in the medowe.
And Abraham stode vp from the coorse and talked with the sonnes of heth saynge: I am a straunger ad a foryner amonge yow/ geue me a possession to bury in with you/ that I may bury my dead oute of my sighte.
Abraham rose vp early and got him to the place where he stode before the LORde/ and loked toward Sodome and Gomorra and toward all the londe of that contre.
And he dreamed: and beholde there stode a ladder apon the erth/ and the topp of it reached vpp to heau[~e].
In my dreame me thought there stode a vyne before me/ and in the vyne were .
And Ioseph coude no longer refrayne before all them that stode aboute him/ but commaunded that they shuld goo all out from him/ and that there shuld be no man with him/ whyle he vttred him selfe vnto his brethern.
And Iacob stode vp early in the mornynge and toke the stone that he had layde vnder his heade/ and pitched it vp an ende and poured oyle on the topp of it.
And se/ the angells of God went vp and downe apon it/ yee ad the LORde stode apon it and sayde.
And he lyfte vp his eyes and looked: ad lo/ thre men stode not farr from hym.
And in this state stode this passionate Louer a longe time, tormented with the exceeding hote Loue and fealtie that he bare her.
The rauisher seeing the Duke to be earnest, could not tell at the first Face, of what Woode to make his arrowes, stode stil astonned, and was surprysed wyth a newe feare.
The Jewes with the payens hadden werre, But they among hem-self stode ever in pees; Why shulde than our pees stonde out of herre, 185 Which Crist hath chose unto his owne encrees?
The kyng at the yate stode And other knyght{es} and lordys good To se the squiers play.
In the havyn~ of Portyngale, There stode shippes of hede vale 2135 Of Irun and of tree.
Erlis and Barons, that were good, 1795 By-fore the kyng knelid and stode For that lady free.
There he stode and smote adown~ And leyd sege to the town~, Six yere there he lay.
The quene, hir moder, was nere wode For hir doughter, that gentyll fode, Knyghtes stode wepynge.
On me he cald, and bad me bide; Well stille y stode ay litel space; Fra Lanchestre the parke syde Yeen he come, wel fair his pase.
Have here the best, Alyce, my wyfe, Sayde Wyllyam of Cloudeslye; By cause ye so bouldly stode by me 35 When I was slayne full nye.
The blodye Harte in the Dowglas armes, 65 Hys standerde stodeon hye; That every man myght full well knowe: By syde stode Starres thre.
The ancient arms of Douglas are pretty accurately emblazoned in the former stanza, and if the readings were, The crowned harte, and Above stode starres thre, it would be minutely exact at this day.
The stonderds stode styll on eke syde, With many a grevous grone; Ther the fowght the day, and all the nyght, 115 And many a dowghty man was 'slone.
To London brigge whan he com ryght, Upon the gate ther stode on hy, A gyaunt that was full grym of syght, To teche the Frensshmen curtesye.
So longe he waiteth to and fro, Til ate laste he fond hem tuo, 140 In prive place wher thei stode To speke and have here wordes goode.
I required the Surgien to put hys fynger in his mouth, and to pull out his toung, and so he dyd, not withstanding he held strongly a prety whyle; at the length he pluckt out the same, to the great admiration of many that stode by.
Mavon, He tolde him the case of þat myschefe, 280 How it stode at that ilke tyde.
Alagolofure stode there byfore, That many a man hade slawene.
Next whom stode Moyses with his tables two ¶ Aaron and Vrre his armes supportynge ¶ Ely in a brennyng chare was there also.
Wyth pyllyo{n}s on ther hedes stode lyke doctors ¶ Bernard wyth Amselme and as I suppose.
But at that word, ther was one of the gentlemê that stode by, that could not forbere lawghynge, for the which I was very sory.
Dyuerse of ye monks stode ther aboute with greate reuerence, the couer takyn a way, all we kneled downe and worshyped.
The weder was unto them a payne, For alle that tyme stode most by rayne.
That was a syght of solempnyte, To beholde eyther other parte, To se hir pavylyons in hir araye The pepylle that on the wallys laye, And oure pepylle that was with owte, Howe thycke they stode and walkyd abowte.
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