So whan it lyked hir to goon to reste, And voyded weren they that voyden oughte, She seyde, that to slepe wel hir leste.
She nas nat with the leste of hir stature, But alle hir limes so wel answeringe Weren to womanhode, that creature Was neuer lasse mannish in seminge.
And most of love and vertu was his speche, And in despyt hadde alle wrecchednesse; And doutelees, no nede was him biseche To honouren hem that hadde worthinesse, And esen hem that weren in distresse.
And ofte tyme, I finde that they mette With blody strokes and with wordes grete, Assayinge how hir speres weren whette; 1760 And god it woot, with many a cruel hete Gan Troilus upon his helm to bete.
In the faireste lond huy weren · that evere mighte beo.
So cler and so light it was · that joye thare was i-nogh; Treon thare weren fulle of fruyt · wel thicke ever-ech bough .
Thus shulden popis be suget to kynges, for thus weren bothe Crist and Petre.
Wyde wonders ouer all 8 Of that same hornes great vertues weren told, Which had approued bene in vses manifold.
Parsons and parisshe preestes Pleyned hem to the bisshope, That hire parisshes weren povere Sith the pestilence tyme, To have a licence and leve At London to dwelle, 170 And syngen ther for symonie; For silver is swete.
Of ðo ðe werento ðiſ red, The number slain were about 3000.
Two pilches the angels wrought for Adam and Eve, Two pilches weren ðurg engeles wrogt, And to adam and to eue brogt, so that their shame might be hid.
So there weren with us 2 worthi men, Frere Menoures, that weren of Lombardye, that seyden, that zif ony man wolde entren, thei wolde gon in with us.
There weren enclosed 22 kynges with hire peple, that duelleden betwene the mountaynes of Sythye.
And zee schulle undirstonde, that whan my fellows and I weren in that vale, wee weren in gret thought, whether that wee dursten putten oure bodyes in aventure, to gon in or non, in the proteccioun of God.
And so we wisten nevere, whether that oure fellowes weren lost, or elle turned azen for drede: but wee ne saughe hem never after: and thoweren 2 men of Grece and 3 of Spayne.
And thei ben so chast, and leden so gode lif, as tho thei weren religious men: and thei fasten alle dayes.
And I merveylled moche, that there weren so manye, and the bodyes all hole, with outen rotynge.
And thanne aftre is Armenye, in the which weren wont to ben 4 kyngdomes: that is a noble contree, and fulle of godes.
And the schipmen tolde us, that alle that was of schippes, that weren drawen thidre be the adamauntes, for the iren that was in hem.
For er the bisshop caughte hem with his hook, They weren in the erchedekenes book.
She therefore begs that he may be forgiven, and in token of true contrition he shall spend the most part of his time In making of a glorious Legende Of Gode Women, maidenes and wyves, That weren trewe in lovinge al hir lyves.
Avoutrie in Latin is for to seyn, approchinge of other mannes bed, thurgh which tho that whylom weren o flessh abaundone hir bodyes to othere persones.
Un-to the goldsmith with thise teynes three They wente, and putte thise teynes in assay To fyr and hamer; mighte no man sey nay, But that they weren as hem oghte be.
They werenhise approwours prively; He took him-self a greet profit therby; His maister knew nat alwey what he wan.
The coles right anon weren y-fet, And this chanoun took out a crosselet Of his bosom, and shewed it the preest.
For er the bisshop caughte hem with his hook, They weren in the erchedeknes book.
Swich was the confessioun of the Magdelene, that ne spared, for no shame of hem that weren atte feste, for to go to oure lord Iesu Crist and biknowe to him hir sinnes.
Whan Melibeus hadde herd that the gretteste partie of his conseil weren accorded that he sholde maken werre, anoon he consented to hir conseilling, and fully affermed hir sentence.
Swiche preestes been the sones of Helie, as sheweth in the book of Kinges, that they weren the sones of Belial, that is, the devel.
Gledes and bosardes weren hem by; Whyt molles and puttockes token hir place; And lapwinges, that wel conneth ly, This felowship han for-gerd hir grace.
But and ye willen not praye specially for all other that weren not mad youre brethren or sistren, than were ye not in right charite; for that ought to be commune, and namely in goostly thinges.
And if thyne eyen weren as good as the lynx, that may seen thorow many stone walles, bothe fayre and foule, in their entrayles, of no maner hewe shulde apere to 105 thy sight; that were a foule sight.
Also Pauly[n] of Rome was crowned, that by him the maynteyners of Pompeus weren knowen and distroyed; and yet 20 toforn was this Paulyn cheef of Pompeus counsaile.
And whan thise ydel wordes weren sayd, The colde wal they wolden kisse of stoon, And take hir leve, and forth they wolden goon.
Hire hosen weren of fyn scarlet reed, hose Ful streyte yteyd, and schoos ful moyst and newe.
And eke þis ma{n} was wont to telle þe dyuerses causes of nature þat weren yhid.
For-why in syche an vnp{ro}fitable man myne ententes weren no þing endamaged.
And there weren in that place many dyverse thinges, and many dyverse stories: and of bestes and of bryddes that songen fulle delectabely, and moveden be craft that it semede that thei weren quyke.
And thus wenten many dyverse lusty Bacheleres for to sle grete Lords, in dyverse Countrees, that weren his enemyes, and maden hemself to ben slayn in hope to have that Paradys.
Of twelve Apostles, one a traitor was; The remenant yet good weren and true.
These Ladies, ne these gentles ne'ertheless, Where none of those that wroughten in this wise; But such women as weren vertueless They quittin thus these old Clerkis wise.
The chambres and the stables weren wide, And wel we weren esed ATTE BESTE.
Bot when we weren goon, and Perys of Legh fast in Rysyng Castell, then the yates of Lynne, by the Bysshop comaundement weren fast sperred [shut] and keped with men of armes.
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