What doth he sometyme cowcheth an hogeshed, somtime he doth nothing but stande and laughe at me, other whyle takethe hys Lute wheron is scarslie three strynges layenge on that as fast as he may dryue because he would not here me.
Lay al this mene whyle Troilus, 50 Recordinge his lessoun in this manere, 'Ma fey!
But al-thogh the norisshinges of ditee of musike delyteth thee, thou 25 most suffren and forberen a litel of thilke delyte, whyle that I weve to thee resouns y-knit by ordre.
Pandare answerde and seyde, 'allas thewhyle 1275 That I was born; have I not seyd er this, That dremes many a maner man bigyle?
And therupon a wonder wyle He wroghte: for at thilke whyle It fell so that of his lignage He hadde a clergoun of yong age, 2850 Whom he hath in his chambre affaited.
Although mirthe a whyle be taried, it shal come at suche seson, that thy thought shal ben joyed.
But of my disese me list now a whyle to speke, and to enforme you in what maner of blisse ye have me thronge.
Than gan I to studyen a whyle on these thinges, and made a countenaunce with my hande in maner to ben huisht.
Now al this whyle that ye here tary stil, Your own maters ye may wel have in mind.
His scole-maister had suche auctorite That, al the whyle he bood stille in the place, Speke coude he nat, but upon her beaute He loked stil, with right a pitous face.
So shal thy highe mede be reserved To him, whiche al shal quyten atte laste; For this lyf here may no whyle laste.
Though he be gilty of the dede, And that he [yet] may money pay, 350 All the whyle his purse woll blede He may use it fro day to day!
There be nacions that fashion their chyldren to fiercenesse of warre whyle they be yet redde frõ the mother.
But nowe wyth what compasses, and hardenesse be chyldren troubeled whyle they learne wythout the booke the names of the letters before they knowe what manner letters they bee?
Do they not teach euen straight way the plãtes whyle they be yet tender, to put awaye theyr wylde nature by graffynge, and wyll not tarye tyll they be waxen bygge and myghtye?
And they do not onlye take heede that the litle tree grow not croked or haue any other faute, but if ther be anye, they make haste to amend it, whyleit wyll yet bowe, and folowe the hande of the fashioner.
Agayne: Bowe downe the necke of thy chylde in youth, and beate hys sydes whyle he is an infante very yonge.
They shewe them the praye whyle it is yet alyue, and teache them to catche it by leapyng, and at last to eate them.
A litel whyle after when the yong manne was forced of his father that was come to him, to returne agayne to his old vertue, he brake his necke out of a garret.
He wyll therfore be taught nothyng soner then vertue, and abhorre from nothynge sooner then folyshenesse, if so be the diligence of the parentes wyll incontinent set aworke the nature whyle it is emty.
Whyle they be compelled in the declinynge of nownes and verbes to can by roote in howe manye cases, moodes and tenses one worde is put: as muse in the genetiue and datiue singuler, the nominatiue and vocatiue plurel?
Thus fond I sitting this goddesse, 1415 In nobley, honour, and richesse; Of which I stinte a whyle now, Other thing to tellen yow.
Nay, I perhapps, ere they can drye there smocks, Will putt th'affayre in motion, whyle these are Att solleme mattens.
Whyle they are brablinge in the cittye I am sent backe to the villadge to cheire up the too younge mermaydes; for synce theire throates have bin rincht with salt water they singe with no lesse sweatenes.
Fayre Alice folowed him as a lover true, With a pollaxe in her hande; "He shal be dead that here cometh in Thys dore, whyle I may stand.
Now lete we that monke be styll, 225 And speke we of that knyght: Yet he came to holde his day, Whyle that it was lyght.
Mr. Hill and Bilingsley, I doe nether know, nor can learn any thing worth teling you.
At last king James prickt him, and Ben came to his majestie and told him he 'had prickt him to the heart' and then explaynd himselfe (innuendo Sir W.
The steward gives Vp he rose, and went therto, in, "Better ys me þus to doo Whyle yt must nedys be do.
Consider a whyle sir, I beseech you, the Nature and secrecye of loue.
All this whyle the Gentlemen of the kinge's Traine were searching round aboute the Countrey to fynde his Maiesty, makyng Cryes and Hues, that he myghte heare them.
But whyle the snowe lyes on a mountayns topp, Consumeinge with the heat which comfortts all Excepte it selfe, the fyer may be blowne Into a second flame.
But reade it, doe, that whyle you seeme to reede You may make readye for another worlde.
In the meane whyle that the knyghte thus thought/ the Esquyer demaunded of hym/ wherof he was so pensyf/ P.
And Ioseph coude no longer refrayne before all them that stode aboute him/ but commaunded that they shuld goo all out from him/ and that there shuld be no man with him/ whyle he vttred him selfe vnto his brethern.
Whyle he yet talked with th[~e]/ Rahel came with hir fathers shepe/ for she kepte them.
And when he was come in to hys stalle, he stode a whyle trembelyng and pantyng, and sone after he fel doune to the grounde, and lay styll as dede a longe tyme without felyng or sturyng.
And in that place fulle besyly I walked whyle I myght enduer, And saw how dame enevy In every corner had grete cure; Sche bare the keyes of many a dore.
And says she knewe not howe many of hir susters went forthe whyle she come intoo the dorter; saynge that she cannot fynde in hir hert nor wyll not accepte and take my lady Snawe as priores" (an amusing comment on her vote in 1529).
One whyle then the page he went, 115 Another whyle he ranne; Till he had oretaken king Estmere, Iwis he never blanne.
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