For that thing is appourtenant 7740 To trouthe and causeth to be fre After the reule of charite, Which ferst beginneth of himselve.
To speke as it is nou befalle, Ther is a feith aboven alle, In which the trouthe is comprehended, Wherof that we ben alle amended.
And thus fortrouthe of his decre 1970 Zorobabel was most commended, Wherof the question was ended, And he resceived hath his mede For trouthe, which to mannes nede Is most behoveliche overal.
And thei that herde Hou wysly that the king ansuerde, It was to hem a newe lore; Wherof thei dradden him the more, And broghten nothing to his Ere, Bot if it trouthe and reson were.
And I for schame Ne wiste what I scholde ansuere; And natheles I gan to swere That be my trouthe I knew him noght; So ferr it was out of mi thoght, Riht as it hadde nevere be.
Shew forth thy swerd of castigacioun, Dred God, do law, love trouthe and worthinesse, And wed thy folk agein to stedfastnesse.
For if men shulde trouthe seche, And found it nought within a king, It were an unfittende thing The worde is token of that within; There shall a worthy king begin To kepe his tunge and to be trewe, So shall his price ben ever newe.
Cocks are crowing a merry mid-larf, I wat the wild fule boded day; Gie me my faith and trouthe again, And let me fare me on my way.
Give me my faith and trouthe again, A wat, trew-love, I gied to thee.
So the mayster forgaue hym hys saynge, all thoughe he saydtrouthe peraduenture.
So whan she saw al-utterly, That he wolde hir of trouthe faile, And wende fro hir to Itaile, She gan to wringe hir hondes two.
For unto Phillis hath he sworen thus, 2465 To wedden her, and her his trouthe plighte, And piked of her al the good he mighte, Whan he was hool and sound and hadde his reste; And doth with Phillis what so that him leste.
And who-so seith of trouthe I varie, Bid him proven the contrarie.
This is the meed of loving and guerdon That Medea received of Iasoun Right for her trouthe and for her kindenesse, That loved him better than her-self, I gesse, 1665 And lafte her fader and her heritage.
Upon my trouthe I sey yow feithfully, That ye ben of my lyf and deeth the quene; For with my deeth the trouthe shal be sene.
Daunte[82] thyself, that dauntest otheres dede; And troutheshal delivere, hit is no drede.
Go now forth, Lytell Johan, The trouthetell thou me; Yf there be no more but ten shillings, Not one peny that I se.
And after the juges undrestod the trouthe he gave the baly of Cossey befor me and many other a passyng gret rebuke, seyng without he amended hes condicion and governaunce, thei wuld enforme the Kynge and helpe that he schuld be punyschet.
I am deseyvid of many men; be my trouthe there is owyng me in thys town xl.
Why no syr by my trouthe durst I not, excepte I were mynded before to chaûge halfe a dosen drye blowes with hym.
By mytrouthe and ye wyll beleue me I neuer yet assayed nor proued whether I coulde do it or no.
Almighty god, oftrouthe sovereyn, Wher is the trouthe of man?
But natheles, my trouthe I shal sustene Unto my deth, and that shal wel be sene.
And thus in poverte is in dede Trouthe declared fro falsehede; For feynte frendis it wol declare, And trewe also, what wey they fare.
Trouthe is put doun, resoun is holden fable; 15 Vertu hath now no dominacioun, Pitee exyled, no man is merciable.
Daunte thy-self, that dauntest otheres dede; And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede.
And for as moche as my wrytynges that makyth mencion of that delyveraunce of the said Mautbye be not in my warde, y pray you that ye wolle undre your seelys certyffye me the trouthe how the said Mautbye was delyveryd by my moyen.
Blackletter: The trouthe for to do Justice right wysly,] etc.
They callen love a woodnesse or folye, But it shal falle hem as I shal yow rede; They shul forgo the whyte and eke the rede, And live in wo, ther god yeve hem mischaunce, 1385 And every lover in his trouthe avaunce!
Criseyde, al quit from every drede and tene, As she that iuste cause hadde him to triste, Made him swich feste, it Ioye was to sene, Whan she his trouthe and clene entente wiste.
For now is clene a-go My name of trouthe in love, for ever-mo!
Ye may hir gilt in othere bokes see; And gladlier I wole wryten, if yow leste, Penolopees troutheand good Alceste.
That so bitraysed were or wo bigoon As I, that alle trouthe in yow entende.
More probably wyth Trouthe asyde means at the side of Truth.
And within a ten days after, they knewe the trouthe thereof, by such as had been at the busynesse, and there they shewed every thinge as it was fortuned at Juberoth.
Fraunce and Normandie and of the counte of Mayne, thoroughe umbre of the said fenied colour of trewes, ayenst alle honoure and trouthe of knighthode.
Also it is to be noted that was one of the gret causis that the princes Romayns were so gret conquerours and helde the straunge roiaumes so long in subjeccion, but only using of trouthe and justice keping in here conquestis.
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