First I lerned to lye, A leef outher tweyne; Wikkedly to weye Was my firste lesson; 2880 To Wy and to Wynchestre I wente to the feyre, With many manere marchaundise, As my maister me highte.
That Gybbe hadde meschaunce, Than though I hadde this wouke y-wonne A weye of Essex chese.
Footnote 93: "so that a noble shuld weye but iiij d.
A drye tisyk makith oold men ful feynt; Reediest weye to renewe ther corage, Is a fresshe dragge of no spycis meynt, But of a briht plate, enpreentyd with coignage.
I had almost spoke with Mestresse Ann Hault, but I dyd not; nevyrthelesse thys next terme I hope to take on weye with hyr or other; sche is agreyd to speke with me, and sche hopythe to doo me ease as sche saythe.
Pykenham fro the Wonges to Walsyngham Weye is lxxx.
Item, the most parte off the sowdyors that went over with Sir Robert Green have leeff, and be comyn hom, the hyghe weye ffull; my cariage was behynd me ij.
Item, that ther be a weyetaken with the fermores for the undrewood, so that I lesse not the ferme therffore yerly.
Syr John off Parre and William Berkeley com thys weyeto Flaundrs ward to by them horse and herneys, and [I] made Sir J.
The tother weye is for to go fro the citee of Turquesten, be Persie: and be that weye, ben manye iourneyes be desert.
And the thridde weye is that comethe fro Comanye, and than to go be the grete see and be the kyngdom of Abchaz.
For he hathe amonges hem many of the prophetes, and alle weye hathe had.
The seconde ryvere is clept Nilus or Gyson: for it is alle weye trouble: and Gyson, in the langage of Ethiope, is to seye trouble: and in the langage of Egipt also.
Another tyme imaginen he wolde That every wight that wente by the weye 625 Had of him routhe, and that they seyen sholde, `I am right sory Troilus wole deye.
For dred thee not that she nil finden weye To come ayein, my lyf that dorste I leye.
Was noon so hardy that wente by the weye That with hir dorste rage or ones pleye, But-if he wolde be slayn of Simkin With panade, or with knyf, or boydekin.
As ever mote I drinke wyn or ale, Who-so be rebel to my Iugement Shal paye for al that by the weye is spent.
For Piers Alfonce seith: "ne tak no companye by the weyeof a straunge man, but-if so be that thou have knowe him of a lenger tyme.
And happed, as they wente by the weye Toward the place ther he sholde deye, (320) The knight cam, which men wenden had be deed.
To teche zou theWeye out of Englond to Constantinoble.
And after that, men comen out of Surrye, and entren in to wyldernesse, and there the weye is sondy.
It nedethe not to telle zou the names of the cytees, ne of the townes that ben in that Weye: for the weye is comoun, and it is knowen of many naciouns.
In that weye also ben manye chirches of Cristen men, be the whiche men gon towardes the cytee of Jerusalem.
And his eldest sone gothe be anotherweye in another chariot, in the same manere.
Of 3 Weyes to Jerusalem; on be Londe and be See; another more be Londe than be See; and the thridde Weye to Jerusalem, alle be Londe.
And whoso wil go be another weye fro Babiloyne, than men gothe be the Rede See, that is an arm of the see occean.
But there is a grete weyefrom that on to that othre, and a gret deep valeye betwene hem.
Lord the Kyng, as of your seid besecher and his seid feffees, and every of hem, or of ony othir of the Kyngges lieges: atte reverence of God, and in weye of charite.
Like it yow to witte that on the Soneday next after the Ascencion of oure Lord, in the high weye betwex Cambrigge and the Bekyntre toward Newmarket, I fonde a purs with money ther inne.
And the seyd Warnys wyfe with a lowd vosse seyd All the deuyllys of hell drawe her sowle to hell for the weye that she hat mad.
I stagger yet Beetwixt despayer and hope, and canott guesse Which weye my fate will swaye mee; oh speake, speake!
Purificationis, but I have that weye that his presence is recondet for al this terme.
I recomawnde me to your good mastreschep, besechyng yow in the weye of charyte, and as I maye be your bedeman and servaunt, that ye wyll lete me have wetyng hoghe I maye be rewelyd ageyns the next schyer.
Make ye redy theweye of the Lord, make ye his pathis rihtful.
I send myn angel bifore thi face, that schal make thi weye redy before thee.
Galeren sayth in Alexandrye/ yf yre or wrath ouercome the whan thou sholdest gyue Iugement/ weye all thinge in y'e balance so that thy Iugement be not enclyned by loue ne by yeste/ ne fauour of persone torne not thy corage.
Another tyme imaginen he wolde That every wight that wente by the weye 625 Had of him routhe, and that they seyen sholde, 'I am right sory Troilus wol deye.
And have it brought to swich plyt as thou wost, So that, thorugh me, thow stondest now in weye To fare wel, I seye it for no bost, And wostow why?
But certes, al be thou fer fro thy contree, thou nart nat put out of it; but thou hast failed of thy weyeand gon amis.
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