Of Phrygye By his owne folysshe desyre With paynfull hunger, his lyfe breth dyd expyre This kynge Mydas of whom I haue youtolde Of god desyred with prayer dylygent.
Yea, ye may see ye nere take me to good cheere with you, If ye had, I coulde haue tolde you hir name now.
But the messengers returning vnto their lord, tolde him of the situation of Irland, of the beautie thereof, of the fruitfulnesse of the soile, and of the holesomnesse of the aire.
And when he was come to himselfe againe, being asked what was the matter, he vp and tolde this strange relation.
Octher tolde his lord king Alfred that he dwelt furthest North of any other Norman.
The Biarmes tolde him a number of stories both of their owne countrey, and of the countreys adioyning.
This answer misliked the Emperor yet so much more, as that he tolde the Ambassadour, that were he not an ambassador, he would throw him out of the doores.
This Emperour al that he tolde Hath herd, and thilke unkindenesse 205 He seide he wolde himself redresse.
Also like you to wete that I had sent you a letter be my ladde from London, and he tolde me he myght not speeke with you, ther was made so gret awayte upon hym and upon you boothe.
Lovell, for I tolde hym that I was in hope to fynde suche a freende that wolde lende me Cli.
I tolde my mayde that she lyed off me, and that I never spake with hyr in my lyff, ner that I wolde not wedde hyr to have with hyr iij^ml.
Parr goode cheer as I cowde ffor yowr sake; and hetolde me, that ye made hym haulte cheer, &c.
I fownde my oncle William no sewerte therffor, as Playter and my brother John bothe cowde enfforme yow; it was never desyryd of me, ner the tolde me nott that any suche pledge laye for it, but that ye hadd dyschargyd me of xxli.
I tolde hym as for the condempnacion uppon the accion off trespasse I thoght it nowther good ner worshypfull.
I tolde my seyde Lady that I feeryd that my power sholde natt be ther aftre to gyff so large a plesyr, for at that tyme I was in hope that the Bysshop of Wynchester sholde have payd it, thoghe it hadde drawen a Cli.
I tolde hym I hopyd weell; hetolde me that he undrestood that I had the Cli.
The interpreter tolde all this truely, the which fewe times before he had done, as hath beene tolde you.
And at euyn a sertyn man suppyd with me and tolde me that the patent[256.
Circumspecte agatis, and be war of lordis promysses, for it is toldeme in counseil ther is a writte of forcyble entre[159.
Sidenote: 1450] After that myn letter was wretyn, I spak with Maister Yelverton, and tolde hym the substance of my letter to yow.
I xal sende my modyr a tokyn that sche toke me, for I sopose the time is cum that I xulde sendeth her, yf I kepe the be hest that I have made; I sopose I have tolde yow wat it was.
And wan the Vycar toldeme I wyste ther of no worde, nor zet do be Sir Roberde, for he syth he were loth to make any stryfe.
I spake with White; and he tolde me that he hadde the letter that ye sewed for from .
William Norwych tolde me that he durste undertake for to brynge yow un to my Lord, and make hym your ryght good Lord; and, Sir, my mayster counceyllyd yow that ze shuld not spare, but gete yow hese good Lordshep.
And, Sir, uppon Fryday last passyd, Blake, the Kynges secratory, tolde me that there was delyvered a supersedyas for all men in that sute.
And Maister Yelverton hath tolde a man of the Kyngges Benche called Styrop, whiche is a man of the Lord Moleyns, the trouth that nothir he ner noon of his is endited, and Stirop is now in to Wiltshire, and shall telle it to the Lord M.
And also he tolde us, and as ferr as we can conceyve and feel, the Shereff wille panell gentylmen to aquyte the Lorde, and jowroures to a quyte his men; and we suppose that it is be the mocion and meanes of the othir party.
Dorstestow that I tolde hir in hir ere Thy wo, sith thou darst not thy-self for fere, And hir bisoughte on thee to han som routhe?
She gan eek telle him how that either brother, Ethyocles and Polimyte also, At a scarmyche, eche of hem slough other, And of Argyves wepinge and hir wo; And how the town was brent she tolde eek tho.
The Dutchmen tolde me that they had made a good yeere of this, but the Kerils complained of it because they could not sell all their fish, and that which they sold was as pleased the Dutchmen, and at their own price.
They tolde me that they should be faine to goe to Wardhouse with one lading, and lay it on land there, and so come againe and fetch another.
They tolde me that they had bene to seeke meate among the rockes, saying, If wee get no meate, wee eate none.
I tolde him, that by the grace of God the next yeere, one English ship should come thither.
The Dutchmen tolde me that the best stockfish is made at Kegor.
I tolde him that a king could do nothing without his treasury, this curtizan was my purs-bearer, my countenance and supporter.
God wot I was a rawe young squier, and my master dealt iudasly with me, for he tolde mee but euerie thing that she and he agreed of.
Zacharie came running to Zadochs in sack cloth and ashes presently after his goods were confiscated and tolde him how he was serued, and what decree was comming out against them all.
Soone he rigorously reuiued her, & tolde her yt he had a charter aboue scripture, she must yeld, she should yeld, see who durst remoue her out of his hands.
Vpon Sent Androwe lowde can they crye, And thrysse they schowte on hyght, And syne merked them one owr Ynglysshe men, As I haue tolde yow ryght.
Wente in to a wirme, andtolde eue a tale; And ſenkede hire hure aldre bale.
I spake with a Persian that was three yeeres in that citie of Lanchin, and he tolde me that it was a great Citie and of great importance.
And the schipmen tolde us, that alle that was of schippes, that weren drawen thidre be the adamauntes, for the iren that was in hem.
And it was toldeme that there were foure such men in the sayd kingdome.
Going out of the valley of Iosaphat we came to mount Oliuet, where Christ praied vnto his father before his death: and there is to be seene (as they tolde me) the water and blood that fell from the eyes of Christ.
My servaunt tolde me ye desired to knowe what my Lord of Norffolk seid to me whan I spake of you; and he seid in asmeche as Howard[39.
I tolde my Lord of Norffolk atte London that I labored diverse men for Sir Roger Chaumberleyn, and they seid to me they wolde have hym, but not Howard, in asmeche as he hadde no lyvelode in the shire, nor conversement [i.
I tolde Harry Wylton the demeanyng betwix the kyng and hym; it war to long to wrythe.
My nevew John tolde me also that he supposed ther were out proclamacions against yow, &c.
And after all oder talkyngs he tolde me he shulde be with yow at Lundon hastyly, and that he wolde sey good worde to yow to releve our poor place.
And my Lord of Caunterbury tolde me that the Frenche men have ben before yow, and that ye shotte many gonnes; and so he tolde all the Lords.
Also he that tolde me this seid that it were better for yow to come up than to be fotte out of your house with streingth, and to abide the Kings judgement therin, for he will take your contumacy to great displeasure.
I asked them hom they wolde have, and they seid they wolde have you, and thus I tolde hym.
Maister Brakle shall preche at Poules on Sunday next comyng as he tolde me, and he told me, that for cause Childermesse day[280.
And wyrch þan as I haue tolde þe in þe secunde case.
Which being concluded among them, they durst not make knowen to any man, neither did they credite vs so much, as to shew vs their mindes therein, although they tolde vs all whatsoeuer they knew.
Iuly the Sabander came abord, and he was our great friend, for that after we found it so, hee tolde vs what waight the sackes of Pepper were, and what prises they bare, counselling vs to buy.
The Iesuites still tolde them that they should be sent prisoners into Portugall, wishing them to leaue off their trade of marchandise, and to become Iesuites, promising them thereby to defend them from all trouble.
Hee tolde them moreouer, that Holland was a free countrey, and that euery man there was his owne Master, and that there was not one slaue or captiue in the whole land.
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