Fortune him hadde enhaunced so in pryde That verraily he wende he mighte attayne Unto the sterres, upon every syde, 3775 And in balance weyen ech montayne, And alle the flodes of the see restrayne.
For wende I never, by possibilitee, That swich a monstre or merveille mighte be!
Of gooth the skin an hande-brede aboute, The hole culter brende so his toute, And for the smert he wende for to dye.
And with the staf she drough ay neer and neer, And wende han hit this Aleyn at the fulle, 4305 And smoot the miller on the pyled skulle, That doun he gooth and cryde, 'harrow!
But atte laste, whan that thise lordes wende To sitten doun to mete, he gan to calle Grisilde, as she was bisy in his halle.
And whan this olde man wende to enforcen his tale by resons, wel ny alle at-ones bigonne they to ryse for to breken his tale, and beden him ful ofte his wordes for to abregge.
Under his tonge a trewe love he beer, For ther-by wende he to ben gracious.
I have an half acre to erie 3800 By the heighe weye; Hadde I eryed this half acre, And sowen it after, I wolde wende with yow, And the wey teche.
For seint Thomas shryne; Truthe wolde love me the lasse A long tyme therafter; Ac if yow wilneth to wende wel, This is the wey thider.
And alle that werchen with wrong, Wende thei shulle, After hir deth day And dwelle with that sherewe.
So whan she saw al-utterly, That he wolde hir of trouthe faile, And wendefro hir to Itaile, She gan to wringe hir hondes two.
Wende han loren, he supposed to have lost, he supposed that he had lost.
I wende no Bretones walde bee basschede for so lyttille And fore bare-legyde boyes that one the bente houys.
I wille noghte wonde for no werre, To wende whare me likes.
And whan I felte I was aqueynt 3080 With Bialacoil, and so prive, I wende al at my wille had be.
But whan I com out of swoning, And hadde wit, and my feling, I was al maat, and wende ful wel Of blood have loren a ful gret del.
Than Shame cam forth ful simply; She wende have trespaced ful gretly; Humble of hir port, and made it simple, Wering a vayle in stede of wimple, As nonnis doon in hir abbey.
Heo was arise are ich were, Ich wende hire habbe ifunde þere.
Vorþ he wende mid al his mayn, Þat he com þer hei boþe leie.
For him newende hi neu{er}e mo Eft to sen; ne dude hi no.
Baronage gaf~ him reed Þat he shuld wende hoom~, And fonge his feire kyngdoom~.
Now lat hir wende un-to hir owne place, And torne we to Troilus a-yein, That gan ful lightly of the lettre passe, 220 That Deiphebus hadde in the gardin seyn.
For, by my trouthe, I sey it nought a-game, To wende as now, it were to me a shame.
For wiste he that ye ferde in this manere, He wolde him-selve slee; and if I wende To han this fare, he sholde not come here 920 For al the good that Pryam may despende.
Stood on a day in his malencolye This Troilus, and in suspecioun Of hir for whom he wende for to dye.
Now lat hir wende un-to hir owne place, And torne we to Troilus a-yein, That gan ful lightly of the lettre passe 220 That Deiphebus hadde in the gardin seyn.
And thilke that ought thee money no penny wolde paye; they wende thy returne hadde ben an impossible.
And thus, by this waye, he shal come to the knotte, and to the parfit selinesse that he wende have had in bodily goodes outforth.
I wende and moost supposed to have had ful answere of my contrary thoughtes, sodaynly it was vanisshed.
Mi fader hier hath bot a lite Of warison, and that hewende Hadde al be lost; bot now amende 3350 He mai wel thurgh your noble grace.
Bot therof was sche noght the ner, As no fortune may be weyved; With Falssemblant sche was deceived, That whan sche wende best have wonne, Sche lost al that sche hath begonne.
So longe here lecoun thei recorden, Til ate laste thei acorden Be nihtes time forto wende Al one out fro the tounes ende, 1380 Wher was a welle under a Tree; And who cam ferst, or sche or he, He scholde stille there abide.
I wende I hadde his love boght, And so deserved ate nede, Whan that he stod upon his drede, 5450 And ek the love he me behihte.
Whan thei him povere and nedy se, Thei lete him passe and farwel he; Al that he wende of compainie Is thanne torned to folie.
Lichorida for hire office Was take, which was a Norrice, To wende with this yonge wif, To whom was schape a woful lif.
Thus he says-- 'With wepend eye and woful herte She tok out thilke vnhappy sherte, As she that wende wel to do.
Tho nicht efter thet aperede an ongel of hevene in here slepe ine metinge, and hem seide and het, thet hi ne solde ayen wende be herodes, ac be an other weye wende into hire londes.
Wende forthe, syrs, on your waye, And doth do more to me, Tyll ye wytte our kynges wyll, What he woll say to the.
Up they sterte all in hast, Theyr bowes were smartly bent; 170 Our kynge was never so sore agast, He wende to have be shente.
Wende here non it on hiſ mod, Oc Ioſep al it under-ſtod.
The Frenssh men̄ drewe hem̄ al ayene, They are going to Thay wende the kinge hade bene dedde.
I wende ye were a yemen trewely: truly Ye have a mannes schap as wel as I.
Sche wende he wold han slayen it right tho; believed, then But natheles sche neyther weep ne sikede, nevertheless, sighed Conformyng hir to that the marquis likede.
Ey, Goddis precious dignite, who wende supposed Today, that we schuld have so fair a grace?
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