And, with that worde, he brast out for to wepe (110) So tendrely, that routhe hit was to sene.
Than shalt thou sighe and wepe faste, 2580 And say, "Dere god, what thing is this?
Thus for your deth I may wel wepe and pleyne With herte sore and ful of besy peyne.
For thogh I wepe of teres ful a tyne, Yet may that wo myn herte nat confounde; 10 Your seemly voys that ye so smal out-twyne Maketh my thoght in Ioye and blis habounde.
For she that mighte me out of this bringe Ne reccheth nat whether I wepe or singe; So litel rewthe hath she upon my peyne.
To-broken been the statuts hye in hevene That creat were eternally to dure, Sith that I see the brighte goddes sevene Mow wepe and wayle, and passioun endure, As may in erthe a mortal creature.
This courtear, that perceuyng, spake to the merchaunt and seyd: sir, quod he, pray why do ye wepe now?
Wherfore, whan his sermon was done, he called the woman to hym, and asked what was the cause of her wepynge, and whether his wordes moued her to wepe or nat?
The maidens that shoulde haue dressed theyr maisters suppers, they wepe and crye; boyes and prentises sorow and lament; they wote not what to say, whan thei come home.
By thys tale ye may se that the olde prouerbe ys trew, that it is as great pyte to se a woman wepe as a gose to go barefote.
Thanne ran Repentaunce, And reherced his teme: And garte Wille to wepe Water with hise eighen.
Ac hir sauce was over sour, And unsavourly grounde In a morter post mortem Of many a bitter peyne, But if thei synge for tho soules, And wepe salte teris.
Esto sobrius," he seide, And assoiled me after, And bad me wilne to wepe My wikkednesse to amende.
So is after poverte or penaunce Paciently y-take; For it maketh a man to have mynde 7090 In God, and a gret wille To wepe and to wel bidde, Wherof wexeth mercy, Of which Crist is a kernelle To conforte the soule.
Thise wordes seyd, she on hir armes two Fil gruf, and gan to wepe pitously.
Ne she neither hereth ne rekketh of wrecchede wepinges; and she is so hard that she laugheth and scorneth the wepinges of hem, the whiche she hath maked wepe with hir free wille.
With this he stente, and caste adoun the heed, And she bigan to breste a-wepe anoon.
But I, that never felte in my servyse A frendly chere or loking of an ye, Lat me thus wepe and wayle, til I dye.
Now may I wepe allone many a tere, And graspe aboute I may, but in this place, Save a pilowe, I finde nought tenbrace.
Criseyde loveth the sone of Tydeus, And Troilus mot wepe in cares colde.
The thridde signe is, how that thy shrift sholde be ful of teres, if man may; and if man may nat wepe with hise bodily eyen, lat him wepe in herte.
Thus hath this robbour and this homicyde, That many a man made to wepe and pleyne, Swich guerdon as bilongeth unto pryde.
But ther I lete him wepe y-nough and pleyne, Til fresshe May wol rewen on his peyne.
And whan a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne, 1320 Though in this world he have care and wo: With-outen doute it may stonden so.
For I mot wepe and wayle, whyl I live, 1295 With al the wo that prison may me yive, And eek with peyne that love me yiveth also, That doubleth al my torment and my wo.
For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte.
For which resoun this noble wyf Prudence suffred hir housbond for to wepe and crye as for a certein space; / and whan she saugh hir tyme, she seyde him in this wyse.
I wrecche, which that wepe and waille thus, Was whylom wyf to king Capaneus, That starf at Thebes, cursed be that day!
And whan thou hast for-goon thy freend, do diligence to gete another freend; and this is more wysdom than for to wepe for thy freend which that thou hast lorn; for ther-inne is no bote.
To here how men wolde wepe and crye; (491) And slow his brother, and by his sister lay.
O good precious Margaryte, myne herte shulde wepe if I wiste ye token hede of suche maner speche; but trewly, I wot wel, in that your wysdom shal not asterte.
In such swering ther is no stedfastnesse, And these wrecches, that have ful trust therto, After, they wepe and waylen in distresse.
And although the clippinges and kissinges of Rachel shulde seme to me swete, yet is she so barayne that gladnesse ne joye by no way wol springe; so that I may wepe with Rachel.
I nil nat hate myn hert for others sake; Wepe they, laugh they, or sing, this I waraunt, 730 For this mater so wel to undertake That non of you shal make therof avaunt!
Ther was ynowh to wepe and crie Among the Modres, whan thei herde Hou wofully this cause ferde, Bot natheles thei moten bowe; And thus wommen ther come ynowhe With children soukende on the Tete.
This man goth in, bot so it ferde, Whan he hire wofull pleintes herde And he therof hath take kepe, Him liste betre forto wepe Than don oght elles to the game.
Wepe my companions, wepe, and from your eies Raine downe on him of teares a brinish streame.
Tho lay sche stille attelast, And gan to wepe swithe[86] fast, And seyd thus the king to: Allas!
For joie thai wepe with her eighe; That hem so sounde y comen seighe.
Than Abraham came to morne Sara and to wepefor her.
And Ioseph made hast (for his hert dyd melt apon his brother) and soughte for to wepe/ & entred in to his chambre/ for to wepe there.
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