Swiche as han, 'such as castles and other kinds of edifices have.
Men of lawe leest pardon hadde, That pleteden for Mede; For the Sauter saveth hem noght, Swiche as take giftes, And nameliche of innocentz That noon yvel ne konneth.
For we have no lettre of oure lif, How longe it shal dure, Swiche lessons lordes sholde Lovye to here, And how he myghte moost meynee {179} Manliche fynde.
Thus thei gyven hire gold Glotons to kepe, And leveth inswiche losels As leccherie haunten.
Of manye swiche I may rede, 7540 Of men and of wommen, That wise wordes wolde shewe, And werche the contrarie.
As Salomon dide, andswiche othere That shewed grete wittes; Ac hir werkes, as holy writ seith, Were evere the contrarie.
The Sauter seith the same By swichethat doon ille: 5650 Ecce ipsi peccatores abundantes in saeculo obtinuerunt divitias.
And somme chosen chaffare; Thei cheveden the bettre, As it semeth to our sight That swiche men thryveth.
Who so can contreve deceites And conspire wronges, And lede forth a love-day To lette with truthe, He that swiche craftes can To counseil is cleped.
And go hunte hardiliche To hares and to foxes, To bores and to brokkes That breken doun myne hegges; And so affaite thi faucons Wilde foweles to kille; For swiche cometh to my croft, And croppeth my whete.
And held after his gestes ay his pas; And aftir swiche answeres as he hadde, 1350 So were his dayes sory outher gladde.
The same prys of Troilus I seye, God help me so, I knowe not swiche tweye.
To have mo floures, swiche seven As in the welken sterres be.
Bot for al that I am relieved, Of that mi will was good therto, That love soffreth it be so That I schal swiche a bridel were.
Thise ladies ne thise gentils, nevertheles, 260 Were noon of tho that wroughten in this wyse; But swiche filthes as were vertules They quitten thus thise olde clerkes wyse.
Ne I ne may nat, for swiche honours, iugen 20 hem worthy of reverence, that I deme and holde unworthy to han thilke same honours.
For manye han had ful greet 5 renoun by the false opinioun of the poeple, and what thing may ben thought fouler than swiche preysinge?
Ne it was nat convenient, ne no nede, to taken help of the foulest spirites; I, that thou hast ordeined and set in swiche excellence that thou makedest me lyk to god.
Thanne,' quod she, 'ne sholden men nat by no wey seken blisfulnesse in swiche thinges as men wene that they ne mowen 100 yeven but o thing senglely of alle that men seken.
Wher-fore this devyne prescience ne chaungeth nat the nature ne the propretee of thinges, but biholdeth swiche thinges present to him-ward as they shullen bityde to yow-ward in tyme to comen.
But whether swiche men ben frendes at nede, as ben conseyled by fortune and nat by vertu?
But we that ben heye aboven, siker fro alle tumulte and wode noise, warnestored and enclosed in swich a 55 palis, whider as that chateringe or anoyinge folye ne may nat atayne, we scorne swiche ravineres and henteres of fouleste thinges.
But O, wel ben they 175 worthy of merite (as who seith, nay), ther mighte never yit non of hem be convict of swiche a blame as myne is!
Ac he suffrede in ensample {311} That we sholde suffren also, And seide to swiche that suffre wolde, That patientes vincunt.
I hold it greate synne To gyven hem any good, Swiche glotones to fynde, To mayntaynen swiche maner men That michel good destruieth.
For Christ seyde hymselfe To swiche as him folwede: 'Y-blissed mot they ben That mene ben in soule;' And alle power in gost God hymself blisseth.
Leveth swiche wrechen, And leveth swych lorels For her lowe wordes.
I se it by ensaunple In somer tyme on trowes: Ther some bowes ben leved, 9800 And some bereth none, Ther is a meschief in the morre Of swiche manere bowes.
Lewed counseil have ye, To gyve from youre heires That youre aiels yow lefte, And gyveth it to bidde for yow Fo swiche that ben riche, And ben founded and feffed ek To bidde for othere.
The Host is made to interrupt the story: "'Myn eres aken of thy drasty speche; Now swiche a rym the devel I beteche!
Now have I therto this condicioun That, of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun.
The poet hastily protests against any such desire, and explains that he has come for-- Tydinges, other this or that Of love, or swiche thinges glade.
For it was, on to beholde As thogh the erthe envye wolde To be gayer than the heven To have mo floures, swiche seven As in the welken sterres be.
Of clooth-making she hadde swiche an haunt, She passed hem of Ypres and of Gaunt.
Of avarice and of swiche cursednesse Is al my preching, for to make hem free To yeve hir pense and namely unto me.
As cold as any frost now wexeth she; For pite by the herte her streyneth so, And dreed of death doth her so moche wo, 2685 That thryes doun she fil in swiche a were.
Chaucer uses it thus near the end of the Persones Tale (I 1052); 'Also in weringe of heyres or of stamin or of haubergeons on hir naked flesh for Cristes sake, and swiche manere penances.
In swiche wordes gan to pleyne Dido of hir grete peyne, As me mette redely; Non other auctour alegge I.
I am in a doute of swiche þinges as herbes or trees þat ne han no fely{n}g soule.
And blysfulnesse] is swiche a goode þat who so haþ geten it he ne may ouer þat no þing more desiire.
But wheþir swiche men ben frendes at nede as ben conseiled by fortune {and} nat by vertue.
For whiche I wondre 1204 gretly þat men merueilen on swiche þinges.
And swiche is þe nat{ur}e of p{ar}ties or of membris.
I trowe þat we sholden first enquere forto witen yif þat any swiche manere goode as þilke goode þat þou hast diffinissed a lytel her byforne.
For certes, swiche scorneres faren lyk the foule tode, that may nat endure to smelle the sote savour of the vyne whanne it florissheth.
And therfor he, of ful avysement, Nolde never wryte in none of his sermouns Of swicheunkinde abhominaciouns, Ne I wol noon reherse, if that I may.
Wherfore I seye, that swiche wikked delytes and wikked thoghtes been subtile bigyleres of hem that shullen be dampned.
Swiche preestes been the sones of Helie, as sheweth in the book of Kinges, that they weren the sones of Belial, that is, the devel.
Colours ne knowe I none, with-outen drede, But swiche colours as growen in the mede, Or elles swiche as men dye or peynte.
Biforn hem stoode swiche instruments of soun, 1715 That Orpheus, ne of Thebes Amphioun, Ne maden never swich a melodye.
Ipocrite, is he that hydeth to shewe him swiche as he is, and sheweth him swiche as he noght is.
And by this same resoun shul ye clepen to your conseil, of your freendes that been of age, swiche as han seyn and been expert in manye thinges, and been approved in conseillinges.
Also in weringe of heyres or of stamin, or of haubergeons on hir naked flesh, for Cristes sake, and swiche manere penances.
Algates I greve, whanne that scorchours I mete That riden reccheles adoun the strete: I praie, bethynke yow, swiche diversioun Ben weel for mayde of mene condicioun, But ladye fayre in brekes al ydighte Certes meseems ne verray semelye sighte.
Ye had a great chertee Toward mankind; but how then may it be That ye swiche menez make, it to destroyen, Which menez don no good, but ever anoyen?
But war thee wel that swiche manere penances on thy flesh ne make nat thyn herte bitter or angry or anoyed of thy-self; for bettre is to caste awey thyn heyre, than for to caste away the sikernesse of Jesu Crist.
Chaucer, Legend of Good Women, 2686: "Thryes doun she fil in swiche a were.
I wold have swiche stoan a xx^ti tunne tight caried to Moneslee[19.
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