My Lord Wenlok, Sir John Cley, and the Dean of Seynt Severyens, have abiden at Cales thise iij.
My maister can doo no thing, the which shall come in open audience at thise deies, but it shalbe called your dede.
But it were for an old appalled wight, As been thise wedded men, that lye and dare As in a forme sit a wery hare, Were al for-straught with houndes grete and smale.
By thise resons that I have seid un-to yow, and by manye othere resons that I coude seye, / I graunte yow that richesses been goode to hem that geten hem wel, and to hem that wel usen tho richesses.
The mayde hath broght thise men to blisse above; The world hath wist what it is worth, certeyn, Devocioun of chastitee to love.
Another estaat is thestaat of grace, in which estaat he is holden to werkes of penitence; and certes, to alle thise thinges is Accidie enemy and contrarie.
And in this wyse thise lordes, alle and some, Ben on the Sonday to the citee come (1330) Aboute pryme, and in the toun alight.
Thise fauconers upon a fair river, That with hir haukes han the heron slayn.
They wiste how sotilly they coude assayle 255 Hem, and what falshood they in herte mente; And thise clerkes they in hir daunger hente.
No charge is, what-so that thise clerkes seyn; Of al hir wrong wryting I do no cure; Al hir travayle and labour is in veyn.
Men beren eek thise wommen upon honde That lightly, and withouten any peyne, 275 They wonne been; they can no wight withstonde That his disese list to hem compleyne.
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.
The world hir malice may not comprehende; As that thise clerkes seyn, it hath non ende.
Now is it no doute thanne that thise weyes ne ben a maner misledinges to blisfulnesse'; Ch.
What wight is that can shape remedye Ageynes thisefalsly purposed thinges?
And the next news is that these cooks, of whom Chaucer wrote prophetically Thise cookes, how they stampe, and streyne, and grynde, And turnen substaunce into accident!
In which text the proclamation ends with these words, and is followed by the usual words addressed to the Chancellor as his authority for making out the proclamation: 'And thise oure lettres shall be your sufficient warrant in that behalve.
The assendent sothly, as wel in alle nativitez as in questiouns and elecciouns of tymes, is a thing which thatthise Astrologiens gretly observen'; &c.
Natheles, thise ben observauncez of iudicial matiere and rytes of payens, in which my spirit ne hath no feith.
The thridde deceyt of thise ordris is that thei passen othere in preyeris, bothe for tyme thei preyen and for multitude of hem'; Wyclif's Works, ed.
It is immaterial, as thise Somnours includes the particular Somnour who was one of the party.
And thise assisours, that comen to shire and to hundred, Damneth men for silver, and that nis no wonder.
We shuld haue a good feest, were thise floodis flyt So spytus.
Thise thoners and levyn downe gar fall Full stout Both halles and bowers, Castels and towres.
When all thise floodis ar past, and fully gone away.
Spare me not, I pray the, bot euen as thou thynk, Thise grete wordis shall not flay me.
So me thoght, as I stode; we ar in grete drede; 425 Thise wawghes ar so wode.
Thise floodis not afright all this warld so wide Has mevid with myght on se and bi side.
This is a nobull gyn, Thise nayles so thay ryn Thoro more and myn Thise bordis ichon.
Thise floodis so thay ryn, Therfor, moder, come in.
And yet remued they never out of the house, While they saw all thise sights merveillous: But in his studie ther his bookes be, They saten still and no wight but this three.
The tradition was broken; in the literary past one went back to the Conquest, and thence without transition to "thise olde gentil Britons.
Gooth to the glose of thise vers, 9770 Ye grete clerkes; If I lye on yow to my lewed wit, Ledeth me to brennyng.
The rote of thise sinnes than is pride, the general rote of alle harmes.
Why dispisest thou thus Thise sely pore freres, 1340 None other men so mychel, Monkes ne prestes, Chanons ne charthous That in chirche serveth?
Loke now, leve man, Beth nought thise y-lyke Fully to the Pharisens, In fele of these poyntes.
I pray, parceyve now The pursut of a frere, In what mesure of a mekenesse Thise men deleth.
But natheles, som tyme is everiche ofthise planetes under the same lyne.
And god wot, that in alle thise langages, and in many mo, han thise conclusiouns ben suffisantly lerned and taught, and yit by diverse rewles, right as diverse pathes leden diverse folk the righte wey to Rome.
But the contrarie of thise parties is of the cours of the mone; for sothly, the mone moeveth the contrarie from othere planetes as in hir episicle, but in non other manere.
Thus seyn thiseyonge folk, and up they kille These hertes wilde, and han hem at hir wille.
And by thise samples folwinge in special, maystow wirke for sothe in every signe of the 5 zodiak.
Thise lordes, which that wonen me besyde Wil me destroyen only for your sake.
And whanthise ydel wordes weren sayd, The colde wal they wolden kisse of stoon, And take hir leve, and forth they wolden goon.
And yif thilke delices mowen maken folk blisful, than by the same cause moten thise bestes ben cleped blisful; 10 of whiche bestes al the entencioun hasteth to fulfille hir bodily Iolitee.
But nathelees, as he best mighte, he seyde From Troilus thise wordes to Criseyde.
And yit more-over, yif it so were that thise dignitees or poweres hadden any propre 55 or natural goodnesse in hem-self, never nolden they comen to shrewes.
And certes, amonges thise thinges I ne trowe nat that the prys and grace of the poeple nis neither worthy to ben remembred, ne cometh of wyse Iugement, ne is ferme perdurably.
Now loke up-on thise herbes and thise trees; they wexen first in swiche places as ben covenable to hem, in whiche places they ne mowen nat sone dyen ne dryen, as longe as hir nature may deffenden hem.
Thise ben thanne the causes of the abregginge of fortuit hap, the which abregginge of fortuit hap comth of causes encountringe and flowinge to-gidere to hem-self, and nat by the entencioun of the doer.
Amonges thise thinges sitteth the heye maker, king and lord, welle and biginninge, lawe and wys Iuge, to don equitee; and governeth and enclyneth the brydles of thinges.
And of thise thinges, certes, everich of hem is declared and shewed by other.
Two thinges ther ben in whiche the effect of alle the dedes of mankinde standeth, that is to seyn, wil and power; and yif that oon of thise two fayleth, ther nis nothing that may be don.
Thise wordes seyd, she on hir armes two Fil gruf, and gan to wepe pitously.
Thise portours been unkonninge ever-mo; And I wol doon hem holden up the yate 1140 As nought ne were, al-though she come late.
But shortly, lest thise tales sothe were, She dorste at no wight asken it, for fere.
Wel worth of dremes ay thise olde wyves, And treweliche eek augurie of thise foules; 380 For fere of which men wenen lese her lyves, As ravenes qualm, or shryking of thise oules.
The owle eek, which that hight Ascaphilo, Hath after me shright alle thise nightes two.
Delyte not in wo thy wo to seche, As doon thise foles that hir sorwes eche 705 With sorwe, whan they han misaventure, And listen nought to seche hem other cure.
This is no litel thing of for to seye, This passeth every wit for to devyse; For eche of hem gan otheres lust obeye; 1690 Felicitee, which that thise clerkes wyse Commenden so, ne may not here suffyse.
Thise wommen, that thus wenden hir to plese, Aboute nought gonne alle hir tales spende; Swich vanitee ne can don hir non ese, As she that, al this mene whyle.
The wydeste of thisethree principal cercles is cleped the Cercle of Capricorne, by-cause that the heved of Capricorne turneth evermo consentrix up-on the same cercle.
Preye hir she go no faster cours than ye, I seye, preyeth your suster that she go No faster cours than ye thise yeres two.
In his proem to the first book he invokes one of the furies to aid him in his task: "Thesiphone, thou help me for tendyte Thise woful vers, that wepen as I wryte!
Ther thise goddes laye and slepe, Morpheus, and Eclympasteyre, That was the god of slepes heyre, That slepe and did non other werk.
Ye been also the coroune of Beautee; 75 And certes, if ye wanten in thise tweyne, The world is lore; ther nis no more to seyne.
Then leve I al thise virtues, sauf Pite, 50 Keping the corps, as ye have herd me seyn, Confedred alle by bonde of Crueltee, And been assented that I shal be sleyn.
Thise tyraunts putte hem gladly nat in pres, No wildnesse, ne no busshes for to winne Ther poverte is, as seith Diogenes, 35 Ther as vitaile is eek so skars and thinne That noght but mast or apples is ther-inne.
He saw, when voided were the wilde dere, departed Thise faukoneres upon a faire rivere, That with hir haukes han the heron slein.
The "sely widwe" and her daughters who own the hen-yard Herden thise hennes cry and maken wo, And out at dores steten they anoon, with the result that Chauntecleer is saved.
Holz-- "But right so as thise holtes and thise hayis, That han in winter dede ben and dreye, Revesten hem in grene whan that May is.
Ac thanne swoor Symonye, 1220 And Cyvylle bothe, That somonours sholde be sadeled And serven hem echone, And late apparaille thise provisours In palfreyes wise, Sire Symonye hymself Shal sitte upon hir bakkes.
Thanne Symonye and Cyvylle Stonden forth bothe, And unfoldeth the feffement That Fals hath y-maked, And thus bigynnen thise gomes To greden ful heighe: Sciant praesentes et futuri, etc.
Ther is moore mys-shapen peple Amonges thise beggeres, Than of alle manere men That on this moolde walketh.
And thus Fals and Favel 1250 Fareth forth togideres, And Mede in the middes, And alle thise men after.
And now ben thise as sovereyns With seintes in hevene, {199} Tho that wroughte wikkedlokest In world tho thei were.
Swiche motyves thei mene, Thise maistres in hir glorie, And maken men in mys-bileve That muse muche on hire wordes, Ymaginatif herafterwarde 5840 Shal answere to hir purpos.
And maketh of Lyere a lang cart To leden alle thise othere, As freres and faitours, That on hire feet rennen.
And but if ye be sibbe To some of thise sevene, It is ful hard, by myn heed!
Curteisly the knyght thanne 3860 Comsed thise wordes; "By my power, Piers!
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