O Blisful light, of whiche the bemes clere 1 Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire!
My thridde book now ende ich in this wyse; And Troilus in luste and in quiete Is with Criseyde, his owne herte swete.
And ever in love a cheef traitour he was; And wedded yit the thridde wyf anon, 1660 That was the doghter of the king Creon.
Come thanne agayn the thridde or the ferthe night next folwing; for thanne shaltow aperceyve wel the moeving of a planete, whether so he moeve forthward or bakward.
The two defautes bringen in the thridde Of miscreants, that seen how we debate; Between the two, they fallen in a-midde Wher now al-day they fynde an open gate.
And then I thoghte, anon as it was day, I wolde go som whider to assay If that I might a nightingale here; For yet had I non herd of al this yere, And hit was tho the thridde night of May.
The thridde is: "Which is of most cost, And lest is worth and goth to lost?
Thus was with him bot only left The thridde part, and yit god eft His Angel sende and seide this To Gedeon: "If it so is That I thin help schal undertake, Thou schalt yit lasse poeple take, Be whom mi will is that thou spede.
The thridde wif was hote Alceste, 2640 Which whanne Ametus scholde dye Upon his grete maladye, Sche preide unto the goddes so, That sche receyveth al the wo And deide hirself to yive him lif: Lo, if this were a noble wif.
The thridde point of Theorique, Which cleped is Mathematique, Devided is in sondri wise And stant upon diverse aprise.
Bot nou to mi matiere forth, 2690 As forto speken overmore After the Philosophres lore, The thridde point of Policie I thenke forto specifie.
The king thes thre demandes axeth, And to the knyht this lawe he taxeth, That he schal gon and come ayein The thridde weke, and telle him plein 3110 To every point, what it amonteth.
The seconde lynage is clept Tanghot; the thridde Eurache; the 4 Valair; the 5 Semoche; the 6 Megly; the 7 Coboghe.
Of 3 Weyes to Jerusalem; on be Londe and be See; another more be Londe than be See; and the thridde Weye to Jerusalem, alle be Londe.
And men may well lykne that bryd unto God; be cause that there nys no God but on; and also, that our Lord aroos fro dethe to lyve, the thridde day.
And the first day next aftre, men fynden in the ashes a worm; and the secunde day next aftre, men fynden a brid quyk and perfyt; and the thridde day next aftre, he fleethe his wey.
And the sege of the thridde wif is also more lowe, be a degree, than the seconde wif.
The thridde seed that Piers sew Was spiritus fortitudinis.
The thridde kyng tho kam Knelynge to Jhesu, And presented hym with pitee, Apperynge by mirre.
O blisful light, of which the bemes clere Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire!
He speaks of Mars as "the thridde hevenes lord above"[10] and of Venus as presiding over the "fifte cercle.
The thridde ryvere, that is clept Tigris, is as moche for to seye as faste rennynge: for he rennethe more faste than ony of the tother.
And thethridde weye is that comethe fro Comanye, and than to go be the grete see and be the kyngdom of Abchaz.
For suche a chaunce is me befalle, That I shall er this thridde day Lese all that ever I lese may, My life and all my good therto.
And touchend of the remenaunt, Which is the thridde of your axinges, What lest is worth of alle thinges, And costeth most, I telle it pride, Which may nought in the heven abide.
To the knight this law he taxeth: That he shall gone, and comen ayein The thridde weke, and tell him pleine To every point, what it amounteth.
O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere 1 Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire!
This yere Edward the firste begeten sone of kyng Edward the thridde was born at Wodstoke, the day of seynt Viti and Modest'.
And the thridde day of Septembre folwynge the kyng began the sege of Caleys, whiche sege he contynued unto the thridde day of August next folwynge.
In this yere was the thridde pestilence,[64] in whiche deyde dame Blaunche of Lancastre.
And thus oure kyng conqueryd the feld, Through the grace of God omnipotent; He toke his prisoners yonge and olde, And faire to Caleys ward thanne he went: The yere of his regne the thridde this was.
In this yere was the thridde grete pestilence, in whiche dyed the honorable knyght Edward lord Spenser, and lythe beryed at Tewkesbery.
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.
The thridde arowe he gan to shete, 1800 Whan best his tyme he mighte espye, The which was named Curtesye; Into myn herte it dide avale.
For whan he woot his secree thought, The thridde shal knowe ther-of right nought; For tweyn in nombre is bet than three In every counsel and secree.
The thridde was called Swete-Loking, That now is lorn, without lesing.
The thridde is, for to eschewe lecherye and vileinye.
The thridde is, gladly to assente to good conseil.
And to the thridde knight right thus he seyth, 2040 'Thou hast nat doon that I comanded thee.
The thridde spece of Glotonye is, whan a man devoureth his mete, and hath no rightful manere of etinge.
Lat us now examine the thridde point that Tullius clepeth "consequent.
The thridde manere is venial sinne, and trewely scarsly may ther any of thise be with-oute venial sinne, for the corrupcion and for the delyt.
The thridde cause that oghte moeve a man to Contricion, is drede of the day of dome, and of the horrible peynes of helle.
The thridde manere of chastitee is [634] virginitee, and it bihoveth that she be holy in herte and clene of body; thanne is she spouse to Iesu Crist, and she is the lyf of angeles.
The thridde defaute is, that men fallen in venial sinnes after hir baptisme, fro day to day.
That oon of hem is solempne, another is commune, and the thridde is privee.
The thridde partie of Penitence is Satisfaccioun; and that stant most generally in almesse and in bodily peyne.
An is thes cniht the we nu embe spraecon, odher waes anes ealdormannes dohtor, thridde waes Lazarus, Marthan brodher and Marian.
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