And that thow be trewe of thi tonge, And tales that thow hatie, But if thei ben of wisdom or of wit Thi werkmen to chaste.
For ther nys no tresour, for sothe, To a trewe wille.
And sithen he counseiled the kyng 2570 His commune to lovye; "It is thi trewe tresor, And tryacle at thy nede.
And if I myght be recommaunded unto my speciall maister and youres, with all loliness and trewe service I beseech you hertely as I can.
Almyghty Jesu preserve yow, myn worshipfull mayster, to youre desyre after his pleser and youre trewe entent.
And ther for I may repent the tyme that ever I promysyd my trewe and good wyll to that entent.
Robert Fitzraf, for hese good, trewe and long servise to me doon and contynwyd, and alsoo be reson of my consanguynite and kynred.
This philosopher was so Juste and trewe that he had leuyr dye/ than to lyue longe and be a fals flaterer wyth the sayd kynge.
Thou shalt in worde be trewe alsso; And fals wytnes thou shalt none bere: Loke thow not lye for frende nor foo Lest thow they saull full gretely dere.
Though originally a member of the Presbyterian Church, Ladylands had made "defectioun and apostacie fra the said trewe religioun".
Tell me thê what you call the trewe carienge of the gospell boke aboute with a man.
To thys question in thys fashion framed if he will aunswere trewe Englishe he may not aunswere ye but he must answere yes, and say yes marry be they, bothe the translation and the translatour, and al that wyll hold wyth them.
To this question if he will aunswere trewe Englishe, he must aunswere no and not nay.
And many a goodly damosel in innocence beguiles Her owne trewe love with sweet discourse and divers plaisaunt wiles.
Wherfore I wolde not drede, were it put in the consideracion of trewe and of wyse.
But thou, maker of light (in winking of thyn eye the sonne is queynt), wost right wel that I in trewe name was never thus herberowed.
Certes, trewelovers 105 wenen ever therof to litel to have.
Verily it is proved that richesse, dignite, and power ben not trewe way to the knotte, but as rathe by suche thinges the knotte to be unbounde; wherfore on these thinges I rede no wight truste to gette any good knotte.
Also manye tonges of greet false techinges in gylinge maner, principally in my tymes, not only with wordes but also with armes, 40 loves servauntes and professe in his religion of trewe rule pursewen, to confounden and to distroyen.
For Catoun seith: "if thou hast nede of help, axe it of thy freendes; / for ther nis noon so good a phisicien as thy trewe freend.
And therfore seith a philosophre in this wyse: "ther is no wight parfitly trewe to him that he to sore dredeth.
Thanne shal man looke and considere, that if he wole maken a trewe and a profitable confessioun, ther moste be foure condiciouns.
Under his tonge a trewe love he beer, For ther-by wende he to ben gracious.
But nathelees I see your trewe entente, And truste upon your wit, and have don ay; Wherfor of my free wil I wol assente 150 To wedde me, as sone as ever I may.
For, by that lord that sit in heven above, Lever ich hadde dyen on a knyf, Than thee offende, trewe dere wyf!
And right anon they token hir wey to the court of Melibee, / and token with hem somme of hir trewe freendes, to maken feith for hem and for to been hir borwes.
For sith I yaf to yow my maydenhede, And am your trewe wyf, it is no drede, God shilde swich a lordes wyf to take Another man to housbonde or to make.
I see a serpent or a theef, That many a treweman hath doon mescheef; Knightes Tale, 467 (A.
I was wroght, And for certeyn effectes hider broght 165 By him that lordeth ech intelligence, I yaf my trewe servise and my thoght, For evermore--how dere I have hit boght!
Fortune hath discovered to thee the thoughtes of thy trewe freendes;.
They helden hem apayed with the metes that the trewe feldes broughten furthe.
And in generalle, alle the men of tho yles and of alle the marches there abouten, ben more trewe than in ony othere contrees there abouten, and more righte fulle than othere, in alle thinges.
And therfore seye I of this folk, that ben so trewe and so feythefulle, that God lovethe hem.
Thei beleven wel in the Fadre, in the Sone and in the Holy Gost: and thei ben fulle devoute, and righte trewe on to another.
Every man thynke on hys trewe love, And marke hym to the Trenite; For to God I make myne avowe Thys day wyll I not fle.
For hit is deyntee to us men to finde 920 A man that can in love be trewe and kinde.
But er I go, thus muche I wol thee telle, *Ne shal notrewe lover come in helle.
And of Criseyde thou hast seyd as thee liste, That maketh men to wommen lasse triste, That ben as trewe as ever was any steel.
Of trewe men I finde but fewe mo In alle my bokes, save this Piramus, And therfor have I spoken of him thus.
These olde wemen kepte so hir name, *That in this world I trow men shal nat finde *A man that coude be so trewe and kinde, *As was the leste woman in that tyde.
There must have been something juvenile or timid in her own epistle, as one ostensibly coming from a man, she declared to herself; for Trewe quite adopted the tone of an elder and superior in this reply.
I forgot to tell you that Mr. Trewe sent a note just before lunch to say I needn't get any tea for him, as he should not require the books, and wouldn't come to select them.
Trewe is a curious fellow, you know, Mrs. Marchmill.
You could very well meet Mr Trewe then, if you'd like to be in the way!
The obtuse and single-minded landscape-painter never once perceived from her conversation that it was only Trewe she wanted, and not himself.
Robert Trewe took no interest in her house, in her poems, or in their writer.
Her correspondent and his friend Trewewould have much satisfaction in accepting her invitation on their way southward, which would be on such and such a day in the following week.
That day Mrs. Marchmill inquired if Mr. Trewewere likely to call at any other time.
Ella would have been more hurt at this than she was if she had not known that Trewe laboured under the impression that she was one of his own sex.
I hight him, as I was trewe man̄, To holden̄ it, while I lyve.
An Harborovve for faithfull and trewe subiectes, agaynst the late blowne Blaste, concerninge the Gouernmente of VVemen wherin he confuted all such reasons as a straunger of late made in that behalfe, with a breife exhortation to Obedience.
Therfore the postle bringith hem to mynde of his conuersacion andtrewe preching of the gospel, and excitith hem to be stidfast in the trewe witt and loue of Crist, and to be of oo wil.
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