Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse Embrouded[52] was he, as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe floures, whyte and rede.
Here he meets a handsome young man Of the age of four and twenty yeer And he was clothed al in blakke.
But first were chosen foules for to singe As yeer by yere was always hir usaunce To singe a roundel at hir departinge To do Nature honour and pleasunce, and the whole ends with the charming roundel:-- Now welcom somer with thy sonne softe.
Chaucer enhances the pathos by telling us that The eldeste scarsly fyf yeer was of age.
A nother cause is this; that sothly, in any tretis of the Astrolabie that I have seyn, there ben some conclusiouns that wole nat in alle thinges performen hir bihestes; and some of them ben harde to thy tendre age of ten yeer to conseyve.
A-nother cause is this; that sothly, in any tretis of the Astrolabie that I have 15 seyn, there ben some conclusions that wole nat in alle thinges performen hir bihestes; and some of hem ben to harde to thy tendre age of ten yeer to conseyve.
And now, if any woman helpe thee, (71) Wel oughtestow her servant for to be, And been her trewe lover yeer by yere!
I know ye can't speak; but shet yeer eyes, an' thet says `No.
But I kim a better trick then thet on the Orleens people 'bout five yeer ago--jest 'fore I jined the Rangers.
An ye doan't, ye'll be havin' yeer ride for nothin'.
Keep yeer places; and behave jest the same, as if nuthin' 'd been sayed about our separatin'!
I reckon my nerves are 'bout as they wuz six yeer ago when I fust took my stan' here to larn this settlement how to shoot.
For it is told me that rather thanne he shuld fayle of a shiref this yeer comyng for his entent, he wole spende m^{l.
Some of them hee also observes to be bred of the eggs of other Caterpillers: and that those in their time turn to be Butter-flies; and again, that their eggs turn the following yeer to be Caterpillars.
She was heviest onter me the fust yeer I ever owned a Umbrellar.
I was going on 18 yeer old then, and praid for rane as bad as any dride-up farmer.
Is it yeer orders that ye won't mind, nor a warning given?
Talk like yeerself, dear, and it's no fool of a tongue that ye've got in yeer own head.
I don't think it's very 'asy he would have been under yeer knife.
Hastow not lived many a yeer biforn With-outen hir, and ferd ful wel at ese?
By thise same causes the flouryyeer yildeth swote smelles in the firste 20 somer-sesoun warminge; and the hote somer dryeth the cornes; and autumpne comth ayein, hevy of apples; and the fletinge reyn bideweth the winter.
Comen I wol, but yet in swich disioynte I stonde as now, that whatyeer or what day That this shal be, that can I not apoynte.
The yeer hath eek leve to apparailen the visage of the erthe, now with floures and now with fruit, and to confounden hem som-tyme 30 with reynes and with coldes.
Given at the Court at Whitehall, the first day of May, in the fourteenth yeer of His Majesties Reign.
Given at His Majesties Court at Whitehall the nineteenth day of August, in the fifteenth yeer of His Majesties Reign.
Given at Our Court at Whitehall the five and twentieth day of March, in the fourteenth yeer of Our Reign.
Given at Our Court at Whitehall, this fourteenth day of March, in the thirteenth yeer of Our Reign.
And mynstrales and messagers Mette with hym ones, And helden hym an half-yeer And ellevene dayes.
O set your foot on yon sea stane, And was yeer hands in the sea foam.
And so hit laste into the yeer Of Albert and of Berenger; 780 Bot thanne upon dissencioun Thei felle, and in divisioun Among hemself that were grete, So that thei loste the beyete Of worschipe and of worldes pes.
And for the goodschipe of this dede Thei granten him a lusti mede, That every yeer as for truage To him and to his heritage Of Maidens faire he schal have thre.
For of hire hand ther is no drede: So wel I knowe hir wommanhede, That in hire is nomore oultrage Than in a child of thre yeer age.
It sit a man be weie of kinde To love, bot it is noght kinde A man for love his wit to lese: For if the Monthe of Juil schal frese 4300 And that Decembre schal ben hot, The yeer mistorneth, wel I wot.
Dere can't no lobster come into dis yeer kitchen," said Phillis, attempting to close the door.
At Cristemasse merie may ye dance," And in the Newe Yeer han gret plesance: So fare now wel, myn hertes queene; I praie R.
Imprinted at London, in the yeer that the Powers of Heaven and Earth was, is, and shall be shaken, yea damned, till they be no more for ever.
London, Printed in the grand yeer of hypocriticall and abominable dissimulation.
The first yeer of England's declared Freedom, by the lying and false pretended Conservators thereof, that never intended it.
The first is of the animal kingdom, and varyin in size from a 3 yeer old snappin' turtle, to a lode of hay.
It is then flavored with earysipelas and 7 yeer itch, when it is ready to lay out it's man.
But you see it's been four yeer sence I said it over, an' a man o' my age oughtn't to be expected to know a thing like a younger person.
My white folks seh ten yeer ergo dat Marse Geo'ge never will res' satisfied till his po' brother is flat on his back destitute.
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