But the using of such gentill fashions toward them, wyth frendly prayer of their assistance in his necessitie, so tempted theim, that they could not otherwise do, but frankely and frely yelde and geve hym a reasonable reward.
The sheryf had his leve itake, And went hym on his way; And Robyn Hode to grene wode [went] Upon a certayn day.
Robyn toke a full grete horne, And loude he gan blowe; Seven score of wyght yonge men Came redy on a rowe.
Anone then sayd good Robyn, 85 To that lady fre, "What man hath your lorde itake?
Their goodes were common betwene them, and the mariage did yelde no cause to hinder their assured amitie.
Eke whan he useth his wyf, withouten sovereyn desyr of engendrure, to the honour of god, or for the entente to yelde to his wyf the dette of his body.
I have,' quod he, 'had a despyt this day, God yelde yow!
Why sholde men elles in hir bokes sette, That man shal yelde to his wyf hir dette?
Gamelyn · 'and if it so be, And thou thenke as thou seyst · god yelde it thee!
And I answerid ful humbly, 'Gladly, sir; at your bidding, 1945 I wol me yelde in alle thing.
Thyn herte was Ioly, but not sage, Whan thou were brought in sich a rage, To yelde thee so redily, And to Love, of his gret maistry.
Hoolly and pleyn I yelde me, 1970 Withoute feyning or feyntyse, To be governed by your empryse.
If thou wolt yeldethee hastily, Thou shalt [the] rather have mercy.
O ye that ar put to wronge and Iniury If ye intende for to yelde the same agayne It is great foly to warne your ennemye Or hym to threten with bostynge wordes vayne.
And yf it were possyble for me to dye an C tymes, I had leuer to dye so ofte, than yelde me to the, for though I lacke wepen, I shalle lacke no worship.
And though povere men profre yow Presentes and giftes, Nyme it noght, an aventure Ye mowe it noght deserve; For thow shaltyelde it ayein 3880 At one yeres tyme, In a ful perilous place, Purgatorie it hatte.
And yet wole I yelde ayein, If I so much have, 3400 Al that I wikkedly wan Sithen I wit hadde.
You see him lost, so as your amitie Vnto his euills can yelde no more reliefe.
Hoo, Olyvere, I yelde me to the, Ferumbras implores And here I become thy man.
That Ferumbras aspied welle, He rode a-waye than ful faste 1216 And tiede him to a grene hasel, but Ferumbras rides And come ayen to him in haste off and ties it to And saide “nowe yelde the to me!
He ranne for an othir redyly He runs for another And saide “Olyuere, yelde the to me and asks Oliver to And leve thy Cristen̄ laye, 1340 surrender.
Knele down̄ and yelde the here anoon̄, And eles here I woole the sloo.
Yelde the to me” he saide, “Thy life shalle I safe.
That this westerne voyadge will yelde unto us all the commodities of Europe, Affrica and Asia, as far as wee were wonte to travell, and supplye the wantes of all our decayed trades.
Yelde thee, Cloudesle,’ sayd the justise, ‘And thy bowe and thy arrowes the fro.
And yelde it to his mayster, Be it never so fyne; For no man wyll I spare, So drynke I ale or wyne; 400.
And yet not able to geue it ouer: And determining rather to die, then to yelde to such wicked loue or to discouer the same to any man.
The bysshoppe herde those words, and stepte to hym, and sayde, Lynsay, ye are taken; yelde ye to me.
Truce, hold your hands, truce for a pissing while or twaine: Nay how say you Custance, for sauing of your life, Will yeyelde and graunt to be this gentmans wife?
Mary God yeldehis mashyp what euer he be, It is gentmanly spoken.
God yelde you sir, chad not so much ichotte not whan, Nere since chwas bore chwine, of such a gay gentleman.
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