Away they gonne it for to bere, For they ne durste not answere By exposicioun ne glose 7145 To that that clerkis wole appose Ayens the cursednesse, y-wis, That in that boke writen is.
And in this boke were writen fables That clerkes hadde, in olde tyme, And other poets, put in ryme To rede, and for to be in minde 55 Whyl men loved the lawe of kinde.
Myn herte foryetith therof right nought, It is so writen in my thought; And depe graven it is so tendir That al by herte I can it rendre, 4800 And rede it over comunely; But to my-silf lewedist am I.
The printed edition of 1651 has this heading--'These verses next folowing were compiled by Geffray Chauser, and in the writen copies foloweth at the ende of the complainte of petee.
These verses next folowing were compiled by Geffray Chauser, and in the writen copies foloweth at the ende of the complainte of petee.
These olde Philosophres wise Thei writen upon thilke while, That he mai best a man beguile In whom the man hath most credence; And this befell in evidence Toward this yonge lord of Rome.
Bot whan that thei have hiede take, And rad that writen is withinne, So gret a sorwe thei beginne, As thei here oghne Moder sihen Brent in a fyr before here yhen: Ther was wepinge and ther was wo, Bot finaly the thing is do.
The sexte suiende after this Be name Canis minor is; The which sterre is Mercurial Be weie of kinde, and forth withal, As it is writen in the carte, Complexion he takth of Marte.
Writen at your saide cite of London under þe seal of þe Mairalte þerof þe ij day of Augst.
Writen at your said citee of London under þe seal of mairalte þerof the vie day of September.
Writen at London in the yeldehall the ix day of Maij.
Writen at Gravesende under þe seal of mayralte of your sayd cite London on þe day of þe Nativite of our Lady the Blisful Mayde [8 Sept.
And god have you in his keping Writenunder oure signet at Rouen þe xxvj day of Octobre.
Writen at þe sayd Citee London under þe seal of Mairalte þerof þe vje day of September.
In witnesse wherof to thise same presentz we have put our comon seal writen at London aforesaid the xvj day of July the xxxviijth yeer of the reign of King Henry the vjte [1460].
This Ioye may not writen been with inke, This passeth al that herte may bithinke.
But he that parted is in every place 960 Is no-wher hool, as writen clerkes wyse; What wonder is, though swich oon have no grace?
Criseyde, which that felte hir thus y-take, As writenclerkes in hir bokes olde, Right as an aspes leef she gan to quake, 1200 Whan she him felte hir in his armes folde.
But that the same two places of the apostle may the better he vnderstand: it is to be noted, that in the latter, which is writen in the first epistle to the Corinthes the 14.
I have seen also there a chartor of King Edward writen affor the Conquest.
And in this boke were writen fables That clerkes hadde, in olde tyme, And other poets, put in ryme.
The names 5 of the sterres ben writen in the margin of the riet ther as they sitte; of whiche sterres the smale poynt is cleped the Centre.
Why noldest thou han writenof Alceste, 530 *And leten Criseide been a-slepe and reste?
And by him stoden alle these clerkes, That writen of Romes mighty werkes, That, if I wolde hir names telle, 1505 Al to longe moste I dwelle.
And yf hit so be that hit be more, loke how many yeres hit passeth, and with so many entere into thy tables in the first lyne ther-as is writen anni collecti et expansi.
I 5 soughte in the bak-half of myn Astrolabie, and fond the cercle of the dayes, the which I knowe by the names of the monthes writen under the same cercle.
Thanne plukkede he forth a patente, A pece of an hard roche, Wheron were writen two wordes On this wise y-glosed.
Mairi she will be writen a letter to you to-morrow, Miss Sheila, and she will be telling you all the news of the house.
Writen in the manoir of the Mor[20-3] the vij^th daye of Maye.
Wherupon I have writen unto him, if he may soo doo, to licence you to come over unto me ayen.
I have every hope for a speedy change for the better in my condition, and I never dreamed Id' have a Ladys Writen Desk truly, or haven one would make me oh so Happy.
I ever thank you for given me this lovely Writen Desk.
And writen shalt thou fynde in right fruteful sentence That neuer wyseman loued ouer great honour.
And y^e rather because amongst y^e rest they found a letter of one of their confederats, in w^ch was writen that M^r.
That which I have writen is treue, & many things more which I have forborne.
Uncass be heard & ordered, and till these artickles be under writen at Boston, by Jenemo & Wipetock.
Whan the hermyte had rehersed manye of the dukes seruantes wyues, and the secretarye merely laughenge had writen them, he semed as he had al said.
Whiche my counsel I wold ye had folowed, rather than to haue writen thes letteres to me excusing your self as thoughe there were no maner of defaute in you.
And what so euer the kinges grace hath sayed or writen vnto you heretofore, yet that notwithstonden, ye were neverthelesse bounden to vtter to him thees pernicious reuelations.
As towching the speking of your conscience, it is thought that ye haue writen and haue spoken as muche as ye can .
A Copie of a lettere writen into Scotland in the favour of one Thomas miller of london 91.
And thus Jhu kepe youwriten the xix^{th} daie of June at London in the xxiiii yere of the Reigne of oure Soueraien Lorde the Kinge Henry the Eight.
In the holy scripture it is writen / Let a man proue hym selfe.
Ne me list not th' opinions to tell Of them, though that they writen where they dwell; Arcite is cold, there Mars his soule gie.
And the lettre of his grete seel, writen abouten, is this, Deus in Celo, Chan super Terram, ejus fortitudo.
For thei han Gospelles and the prophecyes and the Byble, writen in here langage.
And other men han told me, that he that syngethe the masse for the prelate that is ded, he schalle fynde upon the awtier the name writen of him that schalle be prelate chosen.
And undre the emperoures table, sitten 4 clerkes, that writen alle, that the emperour seythe, be it good, be it evylle.
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