Now we ne mot to-geder goo, Al mywele is turned to woo.
Who so kouth wele his craft þare might it kith,’ Minot v.
D reads, in wele ⁊ in senne; J vnwreste · and eke false were.
Of al thy state thou shalt him sey, And aske him counseil how thou may Do any thing that may hir plese; For it to thee shal do gret ese, 2870 That he may wite thou trust him so, Bothe of thy wele and of thy wo.
What wonder is then, thogh that I besette My servise on suche oon, that may me knette To wele or wo, sith hit lyth in hir might?
For ever the body must be lad Aftir the herte; in wele and wo, 1795 Of force togidre they must go.
This litel writ, proverbes, or figure 25 I sende you, tak kepe of hit, I rede: Unwys is he that can no wele endure.
Come neighbour Beech, lets have our mornings draught And wele go drinke it at yong Merries house: They say he hath the best in all this towne, Besides they say he is an honest man, And keepes good rule and orders in his house.
Then be not [so] iniurious to thy selfe, To wast thy strength in lamentation, But tell thy case; weleseeke some remedie.
Ma dame, I am a man of thyne, That in thi Court have longe served, And aske that I have deserved, 170 Some wele after my longe wo.
Thus com sir Orfeo out of his care; God graunt ous alle wele to fare!
A morwe the under tide is come And Orfeo hath his armes y nome, And weleten hundred knightes with him, Ich y armed stout and grim; And with the quen wenten he, Right unto that ympe tre.
O riche marchaunts, ful of weleben ye, O noble, o prudent folk, as in this cas!
The trompes, with the loude minstralcye, The heraudes, that ful loude yolle and crye, Been in hir wele for Ioye of daun Arcite.
O flesh they been, and o flesh, as I gesse, 1335 Hath but on herte, in wele and in distresse.
O noble Sampson, strongest of mankinde, 3265 O whylom Iuge in glorie and in richesse, Now maystow wepen with thyn yën blinde, Sith thou fro wele art falle in wrecchednesse.
Ne never, for no wele ne no wo, Ne shal the gost with-in myn herte stente To love yow best with al my trewe entente.
For I wele be crownede kinge, 2976 retire, as he wished I shalle yoᶙ alle wele rewarde, to be king himself.
So were thay alle wele at ease, 2316 Thus were thai refresshed botħ moost & lest And weren bifore in grete disese.
For he so wele hade I-spedde, Thay did him grete reuerence.
There thai hitten̄, it was wele sene; To sle eche other was here entente.
Woot no wight what werre is Ther that pees regneth, Ne what is witterly wele Til weylawey!
When eld me wol aweld, mi wele is awai; Eld wol keld, and cling so the clai.
But woldest thou for Godes love Lerne me my Crede, 800 I shulde don for the wil, Whan I wele hadde.
And I shal preve," quod Pees, "Hir peyne moot have ende, And from wo intowele Mowe wenden at the laste.
For-thi God of his goodnesse The firste gome Adam Sette hym in solace, And in sovereyn murthe; And siththe he suffred hym synne, Sorwe to feele, To wite what wele was Kyndeliche and knowe it.
Youre sorwe into solas Shal turne atte laste, And out of wo into wele Youre wyrdes shul chaunge.
For hadde thei wist of no wo, Wele hadde the noght knowen.
For how hit evere be y-wonne, Bote hit be wel dispended, Worliche wele is wuked thynge To hym that hit kupeth.
Item, me thynkyth for quiete of the cuntre it were most worchepfull that as wele Berney as Grey shuld get a record of all suche that myght spend xls.
I wolde be to them as lowyng and as wele willyng as I gan, so I fynde cause, and other I wolnot be to my fadre, and he weere a liffe.
Maister Filongley, and I fonde hym right wele disposid to doo that may please yow in all our materes; and take noo money of hym as yette, for we have noo nede to spend ony sumes as yette, ner with Gods grace shall not have.
Snoryng, and on soche as was cause of Thomas Denyssys dethe, and for many and gret horebyl robryys; and as for the costs ther of the cuntre wele pay therfor, for they be sor aferd but [i.
It were right wele don ye awayted upon hes man comyng, that ye myght knowe the redy entent of my Lordes writyng.
And for sothe, we wer weleand trewly bette; and my Lord hathe sent for mor scheppis, and lyke to fyzthe to gedyr agayne in haste.
It is no grete maistre to gader up that mony, if it wer wele labord.
I prey yow, as ever I may do yow service or be yowre bedeman that yewele sende me yowre avise.
And no trost what my maister wele do, for I can right evele beleve that he wele bere owt the cost of the tyncte whan he maket straunge to ley dowun the condempnacion, &c.
Tho my welebe lovyd son, John Paston, be this delyvered in haste.
Thu art my suete childe, and par amoure Ful wele in herte do I the loue.
And as I conceive to my grete comfort and gladnesse, my saide brother is wele recovered and amended, thanked be God.
God wysyth [visiteth] zow as yt plesythe Hym in sundery wyses; He woole ze xuld know Hym, and serve Hym better than ze have do be for thys tyme, and than He wull send zow the mor grace to do wele in ale other thynggs.
Item, for De Regimine Principum, which conteyneth xlv^ti leves, aftir a peny a leef, which is rightwele worth iijs.
I maye do it otherwise; but as to sey that they schall be rescuyd if all the lands that I have in Ingelond and frendys maye do it, they shall, and God be frendly, and that as schertly as it may goodlely and wele be brout abut.
And [if] the Kyng and the lordis were wele enformed thei wuld considere the redilyer your hurtis.
I movid this mater to Sir Thomas[1-3] late, and he tolde me he wolde move your maistirship therein, which Sir Thomas desirid me to remembir wele what I have had in money at soondry tymes of hym.
Thanne seide the Prest, i will the telle, For alle my good i wele the selle, For alle the synnes that thou hast don, I graunte the hem alle sone anon.
Thus arre they hogges; and drynkyn wele ataunt [so much]; Farewel, Flemynge!
And for I can sowele wasche and so wele bowke, Godde has made me his chaumberere.
And vndrestand{e} wele that all{e} nombres betwix .
And note wele that in makyng{e} of dyvysio{u}n ther ben .
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