If yewoll any more of it, To tell it woll I fonde.
This is taken from Chaucer-- "But one thing warn I you, my frendis dere, I woll no old wife have in no manere.
She shall not passin sixtene yere certeine, Old fish, and yong flesh woll I have full faine.
For whanne ye purpoos to goo on your disportes in fysshyng ye wollnot desyre gretly many persones wyth you, whiche myghte lette you of your game.
And therefore now woll I chose of foure good disportes and honest gamys, that is to wyte: of huntynge: hawkynge: fysshynge: and foulynge.
I woll that ye delyver hit to the countroller of my howshold.
I suppose Mr. Lawes woll speke to you of thes mater.
I lent unto my son Sir Edward Ponynges, I woll that it be distributyd by the discrecion of myn executours and overseers among souche as been knowen my servauntys at the day of my discease.
And lordes lyves they woll lede, And moche take, and give but small; But he it so get, from it shall shede, 275 And make such false right foul fal!
They ben clerkes, hir courtes they oversee, Hir pore tenaunts fully they flyte; The hyer that a man amerced be, The gladlyer they woll it wryte.
For ye ben out of charite And wilneth vengeaunce, as did Nero; 1250 To suffren I woll redy be; I drede not that thou canst do.
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!
For Christ hir king they woll forsake, And knowe him nought for his povert; 430 For Christes love they woll wake, And drink pyment [and] ale apart.
They give hir almesse to the riche, To maynteynours, and to men of lawe; For to lordes theywoll be liche, An harlottes sone nat worth an hawe!
He wol have tythinge and offringe, 885 Maugre who-so-ever it gruche; And twyes on the day woll singe; Goddes prestes nere none suche!
By hir service such woll live, And trusse that other in-to tresour; 750 Though all hir parish dye unshrive, They woll nat give a rose-flour.
Wende forthe, syrs, on your waye, And doth do more to me, Tyll ye wytte our kynges wyll, What he woll say to the.
The [s]entens here now woll I the defyne [Sidenote: The leech without medicine is also God.
But ther hartes serve them not to take a manys gode, while he is present, and woll defende it.
That's the stooan at devides Yorksher an' Lankysher, an' aw think this a 'varry fit time to say a few words woll yo ease yor legs a bit.
I pray yow that ye woll send me word in hast, if ye woll have red to your levery as ye wer avysid, and if ye woll not, &c.
And therfore herein men must hold fote as manhod woll wyth wysdom; and ellis novissimus error pejor priori.
Prayng yow that ye woll yeve credens to the berer herof, and be his gode mayster in cas any man make any qwarell to hym.
I pray yow if ye have an other sone that you woll lete it be named Herry, in remembrans of your brother Herry;[95.
I pray yow that yewoll vouchesaff to send me an other sugor loff, for my old is do; and also that ye well do make a gyrdill for your dowgter, for she hath nede therof.
Item, as for a dey at Mauteby we can non geete, for Wynston woll not of it in no wice.
I send to yow a letter be Colynys of Frawnceys Costard what dedis hewoll don.
Ther be many of them woll do her parte, and ther ben summe that wull not passe ther upon, for thei ben aferd that the werd [world] shuld turne.
Whych lettre I woll ye breke to undrestand my wrytyng and the substaunce off it the more.
I pray yow that ye wollsend me dats and synamun as hastyly as ye may.
The true and lyuely historyke Pvrtreatures of the woll Bible (with the arguments of eache figure, translated into english metre by Peter Derendel): Lyons; by Jean of Tournes.
Ynglishe and Frenche;” and in 1553, from the same city, Peter Derendel gave in English metre The true and lyvely historyke Portreatures of the woll Bible.
I woll ye telle me your name, or I ryde any farter in your company.
The compas mon hallowit be With aspergis me Domine; The haly writ schawis als Thair man be hung about your bals Pricket in ane woll poik Of neis powder ane grit loik.
But, and He [Clarence] or Richart Erle of Warrewyk our Rebell and Traytour come into oure seid Land wewoll .
Men tolde hym that they were ffrowarde karlys butte he wolde nott beleve it and yitt men seye that he woll to them ageyn.
But good enough, let me alone: I woll be even with them every-chone.
I am called Jack Juggler of many an one, And in faith I woll play a juggling cast anon.
This cast do I use, I woll not with you feign; Therefore I wonder if he be I, certain.
That if to come again percase he shall refuse, I woll continue as I am, and let him choose; And but he come the sooner, by our lady bright, He shall lie without the doors all night.
But I woll not give for that boy a fly, That hath not all times in store one good lie, And cannot set a good face upon the same: Therefore Saint George thee borrow, as itwoll let him frame.
Mistress, woll I say, I am bound by my duty To see that your womanhood have no injury; For I hear and see more than you now and then, And yourself partly know the wanton wiles of men.
For he hath no money but what he doth steal, And that woll he play away every deal.
I woll name none particular, but set them all together Without any exception; for I pray you show me one Amongst all in the world that seeth not such fashion.
For I woll shit[209] up the gate, and get me to-bed, For I promise you I have a very giddy head.
Go with me to my chamber at yon lane-end, And I woll a dish of costards unto her send.
So woll I nought, that any time Be lost, of that thou hast do byme.
His Highnes also woll that ye shall moue the gret maister in that behalf For I assure you his maiestye moche tenderyth the aduauncement & prefferment of this Freer and thus hertelye Fare ye well.
Englande berith love or favor to my Lorde Pryvee Seale by cause he is soo great a taker of money, for he woll speke, solicite, or doo for noo man, but all for money.
And this matier the kinges highnes woll haue you chiefly prosecute, leving to Sir John Wallop only the sute for the moneye, bicause the promyse therof was made vnto him.
Neuertheles if your lordshippe woll haue me eftsones to travail in it I shall doo asmoche more therin as your self shall at your cummyng thinke mete for me.
Neuertheles we doubt not but you woll both conforme your owne mynde to fynde out the good order whiche we haue therin determyned and cause other by your good meane to perceyve the same.
Cromwell wrote to Sir Thomas Wyatt at the Spanish Court, directing him to ‘declare how the frenche men show themselfes so ernest to put al in the kinges hand that they offer vpon any significacion that themperour woll make .
For surely we woll not be bounde of a necessitie to be serued there with lordes, But we wolbe serued with such men what degre soeuer they be of as we shall appointe to the same[498].
I trust that ye woll instructe hyme soo fruteffully that he shall not nede to be further reconsiled to amend his lyvynge Wherby ye shall doo averay good & charitable dede as knoeth god who kepe yow Add.
What is it maks a gaumless muff Grow rich, an roll i' lots o' stuff, Woll better men can't get enough?
I woll that the other honest preeste be a discrete man, and coning in gramer.
Why, woll a chap lives he con alter his mind, connot he?
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