This woful Cleopatre hath mad swich routhe (90) That ther nis tonge noon that may hit telle.
This is to seyn, that as long is that day in that monthe, as was swich a day in swich a month; ther varieth but lite.
For this werk is al of another tunne, Of olde story, er swich stryf was begunne.
And yif the altitude of the planete be heyere than the degree of the sonne, than is the planete north fro 5 the wey of the sonne swich a quantite of latitude as sheweth by thyn almikanteras.
O, have ye men swich goodliheed 330 In speche, and never a deel of trouthe?
Trewly she was to myn ye The soleyn Fenix of Arabye, For ther lyveth never but oon, Ne swich as she ne knew I noon.
Where sholde men fynde swich a frend, With so fre an herte?
Ich highed to her house, To herken of more; And when I came to that court, I gaped aboute, 310 Swich a bild bold Y-buld upon erthe heighte Say I nought in certeyn Syththe a long tyme.
Swich a gome Godes wordes Grysliche gloseth; I trowe he toucheth nought the text, But taketh it for a tale.
Gif the lakke liiflode, Lene the ich wille Swich good as God hath sent; Go we, leeve brother.
Ther is non heraud that hath Half swich a rolle, Right as a rageman Hath rekned hem newe.
They shulden maken abbots Her owen bretheren childre, Other of som gentil blod, And so yt best semed, 1510 And fostre none forytoures, Ne swich false freres, To maken fat and fulle And her flesh combren.
Ther wol noman drinke of tho welles Whiche as he wot is puyson inne; And ofte swich as men beginne Towardes othre, swich thei finde, That set hem ofte fer behinde, Whan that thei wene be before.
Swich was the confessioun of the Magdelene, that ne spared, for no shame of hem that weren atte feste, for to go to oure lord Iesu Crist and biknowe to him hir sinnes.
The same deeth that taketh the cherl, swich deeth taketh the lord.
Hoste tho, 'Now swich a wyf I pray god kepe me fro!
In swich estaat as god hath cleped us I wol persevere, I nam nat precious.
Ye shul also han in suspect the conseilling of swich folk as conseille yow a thing prively, and conseille yow the contrarie openly.
Never erst er now herde I of swich matere; 2220 I trowe the devel putte it in his minde.
I trowe men wolde deme it necligence, If I foryete to tellen the dispence Of Theseus, that goth so bisily To maken up the listes royally; That swich a noble theatre as it was, 1885 I dar wel seyn that in this world ther nas.
O quike deeth, O swete harm so queynte, How may of thee in me swich quantitee, But-if that I consente that it be?
Herde al this thing Criseyde wel y-nough, 1590 And every word gan for to notifye; For which with sobre chere hir herte lough; For who is that ne wolde hir glorifye, To mowen swich a knight don live or dye?
Why ne hadde I swich on with my soule y-bought, Ye, or the leeste Ioye that was there?
And al this nas but his malencolye, That he hadde of him-self swich fantasye.
And therefore positif lawe and swich decree Is broke al-day for love, in ech degree.
Though Mars shal helpe his knight, yet nathelees Bitwixe yow ther moot be som tyme pees, Al be ye noght of o complexioun, That causeth al day swich divisioun.
Says Chaucer: "And eek to me hit is a greet penaunce, Sith rym in English hath swich scarsitee, To folowe word by word the curiositee Of Graunson, flour of hem that make in Fraunce.
And therfor, thogh I highte to expresse 5 The sorwe and wo that is in mariage, I dar not wryte of hit no wikkednesse, Lest I my-self falle eft in swich dotage.
That trewly Cassandra, that so Bewayled the destruccioun Of Troye and of Ilioun, Had never swich sorwe as I tho.
Hast thou not seyd, in blaspheme of this goddes, 15 Through pryde, or through thy grete rakelnesse, Swich thing as in the lawe of love forbode is?
The note, I trowe, maked was in Fraunce; The wordes wer swich as ye may heer finde, The nexte vers, as I now have in minde.
But swich a fairnesse of a nekke Had that swete, that boon nor brekke 940 Nas ther non sene, that mis-sat.
Hire array me ravysshed, Swich richesse saugh I nevere; I hadde wonder what she was, And whos wif she were.
Loke thow werche it in werk, That thi word sheweth, Swich as thow semest in sighte Be in assay y-founde.
Ac it semeth now soothly To the worldes sighte, That Goddes word wercheth noght On lered ne on lewed, But in swich a manere As Marc meneth in the gospel: Dum caecus ducit caecum, ambo in foveam cadunt.
Swich a meschief Mede made Saul the kyng to have, {60} That God hated hym for evere, And alle hise heires after.
And kynde kenned the pecok To cauken in swich a kynde; And kenned Adam To knowe his pryve membres, 7890 And taughte hym and Eve To helien hem with leves.
For the beste book in oure hous, Theigh brent gold were the leves, And I wiste witterly Thow were swichas thow tellest.
I Wrathe reste nevere, That I ne moste folwe This wikked folk, For swich is my grace.
Maketh swich lawe, and for aught may befalle, 30 Observe it wel; ther-to be ye dettour.
A wikked tree good fruit may noon forth bring, For swich the fruit is, as that is the tree.
And of mercy hath every man swich nede That, cessing that, farwel the joye of man!
And wher men seyn, 'in man is stedfastnesse, And woman is of her corage unstable,' Who may of Adam bere swich witnesse?
Her heped vertu hath swich excellence That al to lene is mannes facultee To declare it, and therfor in suspence Her due preysing put mot nedes be.
Thanne comth the sinne of worldly sorwe, swich as is cleped tristicia, that sleeth man, as seint Paul seith.
Wherfore swich sorwe shorteth ful ofte the lyf of a man, er that his tyme be come by wey of kinde"[926].
For certes swich sorwe werketh to the deeth of the soule and of the body also; for therof comth, that a man is anoyed of his owene lyf.
Wherfor we preyen yow, a-rowe, That our fame swich be-knowe In alle thing right as it is.
But juggeth, ye that han ben at the feste Of swich gladnesse.
Bromholm, and so adnulled the ground of his processe ageyn me, and also the tyme of his grevaunce pretendid, and the tyme of his sute he was apostata, and I trowe is yet, and so unable to sue any swich processe.
It were right good that al swich thing were knowe.
The bride answers with a disquisition on true nobility:-- But for ye speken of swich gentillesse As is descended out of old richesse, And that therfore sholden ye be gentil men, Swich arrogance is nat worth a hen.
The young man is complaining to himself most piteously:-- Hit was gret wonder that nature Might suffre(n) any creature To haveswich sorwe and be not deed.
Having described the fall of Sampson, for instance, no more inspiring reflection occurs to him than That no men telle hir conseil til hir wyves Of swich thing as they wolde han secree fayn, If that it touche hir limmes or hir lyves.
This wyn of Spayne crepeth subtilly In othere wynes, growing faste by, Of which there ryseth swich fumositee That when a man hath dronken draughtes three And weneth that he be at hoom in Chepe, He is in Spayne, right at the toune of Lepe.
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