| AND..............295 | |
| MkT 1993 And fillen so that ther nas no remedie | 2 |
| MkT 1998 Be war by thise ensamples trewe and olde. | 8 |
| MkT 2000 And nat a man, at hym wol I bigynne. | 10 |
| MkT 2009 And nat bigeten of mannes sperme unclene, | 18 |
| MkT 2010 And welte al paradys savynge o tree. | 20 |
| MkT 2014 To labour, and to helle, and to meschaunce. | 24 |
| MkT 2014 To labour, and to helle, and to meschaunce. | 24 |
| MkT 2017 And was to God Almyghty consecrat, | 26 |
| MkT 2018 And stood in noblesse whil he myghte see. | 28 |
| MkT 2020 To speke of strengthe, and therwith hardynesse; | 30 |
| MkT 2025 He slow and al torente the leoun, | 34 |
| MkT 2027 His false wyf koude hym so plese and preye | 36 |
| MkT 2028 Til she his conseil knew; and she, untrewe, | 38 |
| MkT 2030 And hym forsook, and took another newe. | 40 |
| MkT 2030 And hym forsook, and took another newe. | 40 |
| MkT 2032 And alle hir tayles he togydre bond, | 42 |
| MkT 2033 And sette the foxes tayles alle on fire, | 42 |
| MkT 2035 And they brende alle the cornes in that lond, | 44 |
| MkT 2036 And alle hire olyveres, and vynes eke. | 46 |
| MkT 2036 And alle hire olyveres, and vynes eke. | 46 |
| MkT 2038 And hadde no wepen but an asses cheke. | 48 |
| MkT 2042 And sende hym drynke, or elles moste he deye; | 52 |
| MkT 2043 And of this asses cheke, that was dreye, | 52 |
| MkT 2050 And on his bak ycaryed hem hath hee | 60 |
| MkT 2052 O noble, almyghty Sampsoun, lief and deere, | 62 |
| MkT 2059 And fully twenty wynter, yeer by yeere, | 68 |
| MkT 2065 And falsly to his foomen she hym solde. | 74 |
| MkT 2066 And slepynge in hir barm upon a day, | 76 |
| MkT 2068 And made his foomen al his craft espyen; | 78 |
| MkT 2069 And whan that they hym foond in this array, | 78 |
| MkT 2070 They bounde hym faste and putten out his yen. | 80 |
| MkT 2076 O whilom juge, in glorie and in richesse! | 86 |
| MkT 2081 And made hym as hire fool biforn hem pleye; | 90 |
| MkT 2082 And this was in a temple of greet array. | 92 |
| MkT 2084 For he two pilers shook and made hem falle, | 94 |
| MkT 2085 And doun fil temple and al, and ther it lay -- | 94 |
| MkT 2085 And doun fil temple and al, and ther it lay -- | 94 |
| MkT 2085 And doun fil temple and al, and ther it lay -- | 94 |
| MkT 2086 And slow hymself, and eek his foomen alle. | 96 |
| MkT 2086 And slow hymself, and eek his foomen alle. | 96 |
| MkT 2088 And eek thre thousand bodyes, were ther slayn | 98 |
| MkT 2091 Beth war by this ensample oold and playn | 100 |
| MkT 2096 Syngen his werkes laude and heigh renoun; | 106 |
| MkT 2098 He slow and rafte the skyn of the leoun; | 108 |
| MkT 2104 And made his hors to frete hym, flessh and boon; | 114 |
| MkT 2104 And made his hors to frete hym, flessh and boon; | 114 |
| MkT 2107 And he slow Cacus in a cave of stoon; | 116 |
| MkT 2109 He slow the grisly boor, and that anon; | 118 |
| MkT 2110 And bar the hevene on his nekke longe. | 120 |
| MkT 2114 What for his strengthe and for his heigh bountee, | 124 |
| MkT 2115 And every reawme wente he for to see. | 124 |
| MkT 2121 And as thise clerkes maken mencioun, | 130 |
| MkT 2122 She hath hym sent a sherte, fressh and gay. | 132 |
| MkT 2123 Allas, this sherte -- allas and weylaway! -- | 132 |
| MkT 2132 And whan he saugh noon oother remedye, | 142 |
| MkT 2144 The glorious ceptre, and roial magestee | 154 |
| MkT 2150 In which his glorie and his delit he hadde. | 160 |
| MkT 2153 And maked ech of hem to been his thral. | 162 |
| MkT 2160 Sixty cubites long and sevene in brede, | 170 |
| MkT 2161 To which ymage bothe yong and oold | 170 |
| MkT 2162 Comanded he to loute, and have in drede, | 172 |
| MkT 2167 This kyng of kynges proud was and elaat; | 176 |
| MkT 2171 And lyk a beest hym semed for to bee, | 180 |
| MkT 2172 And eet hey as an oxe, and lay theroute | 182 |
| MkT 2172 And eet hey as an oxe, and lay theroute | 182 |
| MkT 2175 And lik an egles fetheres wax his heres; | 184 |
| MkT 2178 And yaf hym wit, and thanne with many a teere | 188 |
| MkT 2178 And yaf hym wit, and thanne with many a teere | 188 |
| MkT 2179 He thanked God, and evere his lyf in feere | 188 |
| MkT 2181 And til that tyme he leyd was on his beere | 190 |
| MkT 2182 He knew that God was ful of myght and grace. | 192 |
| MkT 2186 For proud he was of herte and of array, | 196 |
| MkT 2187 And eek an ydolastre was he ay. | 196 |
| MkT 2189 But Fortune caste hym doun, and ther he lay, | 198 |
| MkT 2190 And sodeynly his regne gan divide. | 200 |
| MkT 2192 Upon a tyme and bad hem blithe bee; | 202 |
| MkT 2193 And thanne his officeres gan he calle: | 202 |
| MkT 2197 And to oure hye goddes thanke we | 206 |
| MkT 2199 Hys wyf, his lordes, and his concubynes | 208 |
| MkT 2202 And on a wal this kyng his eyen caste | 212 |
| MkT 2203 And saugh an hand, armlees, that wroot ful faste, | 212 |
| MkT 2204 For feere of which he quook and siked soore. | 214 |
| MkT 2206 Wroot Mane, techel, phares, and namoore. | 216 |
| MkT 2210 And seyde, " Kyng, God to thy fader lente | 220 |
| MkT 2211 Glorie and honour, regne, tresour, rente; | 220 |
| MkT 2212 And he was proud and nothyng God ne dradde, | 222 |
| MkT 2212 And he was proud and nothyng God ne dradde, | 222 |
| MkT 2213 And therfore God greet wreche upon hym sente, | 222 |
| MkT 2214 And hym birafte the regne that he hadde. | 224 |
| MkT 2217 And eet hey as a beest in weet and drye | 226 |
| MkT 2217 And eet hey as a beest in weet and drye | 226 |
| MkT 2218 Til that he knew, by grace and by resoun, | 228 |
| MkT 2220 Over every regne and every creature; | 230 |
| MkT 2221 And thanne hadde God of hym compassioun, | 230 |
| MkT 2222 And hym restored his regne and his figure. | 232 |
| MkT 2222 And hym restored his regne and his figure. | 232 |
| MkT 2224 And knowest alle thise thynges verraily, | 234 |
| MkT 2225 And art rebel to God, and art his foo. | 234 |
| MkT 2225 And art rebel to God, and art his foo. | 234 |
| MkT 2227 Thy wyf eek, and thy wenches, synfully | 236 |
| MkT 2229 And heryest false goddes cursedly; | 238 |
| MkT 2234 Dyvyded is thy regne, and it shal be | 244 |
| MkT 2235 To Medes and to Perses yeven, " quod he. | 244 |
| MkT 2236 And thilke same nyght this kyng was slawe, | 246 |
| MkT 2237 And Darius occupieth his degree, | 246 |
| MkT 2242 She bereth awey his regne and his richesse, | 252 |
| MkT 2243 And eek his freendes, bothe moore and lesse. | 252 |
| MkT 2243 And eek his freendes, bothe moore and lesse. | 252 |
| MkT 2246 This proverbe is ful sooth and ful commune. | 256 |
| MkT 2249 So worthy was in armes and so keene | 258 |
| MkT 2256 Office of wommen, and to wode she wente, | 266 |
| MkT 2257 And many a wilde hertes blood she shedde | 266 |
| MkT 2260 And whan that she was elder, she wolde kille | 270 |
| MkT 2261 Leouns, leopardes, and beres al torente, | 270 |
| MkT 2262 And in hir armes weelde hem at hir wille. | 272 |
| MkT 2264 And rennen in the montaignes al the nyght, | 274 |
| MkT 2265 And slepen under a bussh, and she koude eke | 274 |
| MkT 2265 And slepen under a bussh, and she koude eke | 274 |
| MkT 2266 Wrastlen, by verray force and verray myght, | 276 |
| MkT 2274 And ye shul understonde how that he | 284 |
| MkT 2277 They lyved in joye and in felicitee, | 286 |
| MkT 2278 For ech of hem hadde oother lief and deere, | 288 |
| MkT 2283 And also soone as that she myghte espye | 292 |
| MkT 2286 Eft-soone, and nat but oones, out of drede. | 296 |
| MkT 2287 And if she were with childe at thilke cast, | 296 |
| MkT 2293 It was to wyves lecherie and shame, | 302 |
| MkT 2296 The whiche she kepte in vertu and lettrure. | 306 |
| MkT 2299 And wys therwith, and large with mesure, | 308 |
| MkT 2299 And wys therwith, and large with mesure, | 308 |
| MkT 2300 So penyble in the werre, and curteis eke, | 310 |
| MkT 2305 She was al clad in perree and in gold, | 314 |
| MkT 2306 And eek she lafte noght, for noon huntyng, | 316 |
| MkT 2308 Whan that she leyser hadde; and for to entende | 318 |
| MkT 2311 And shortly of this storie for to trete, | 320 |
| MkT 2312 So doghty was hir housbonde and eek she, | 322 |
| MkT 2316 Of Rome, and with strong hond held hem ful faste, | 326 |
| MkT 2320 Agayn Sapor the kyng and othere mo, | 330 |
| MkT 2321 And how that al this proces fil in dede, | 330 |
| MkT 2322 Why she conquered and what title had therto, | 332 |
| MkT 2323 And after, of hir meschief and hire wo, | 332 |
| MkT 2323 And after, of hir meschief and hire wo, | 332 |
| MkT 2324 How that she was biseged and ytake -- | 334 |
| MkT 2328 The regnes heeld, and with hire propre hond | 338 |
| MkT 2334 To been in pees, and lete hire ride and pleye. | 344 |
| MkT 2334 To been in pees, and lete hire ride and pleye. | 344 |
| MkT 2345 And Hermanno and Thymalao | 354 |
| MkT 2345 And Hermanno and Thymalao | 354 |
| MkT 2350 To wrecchednesse and to mysaventure. | 360 |
| MkT 2354 And with his legions he took his weye | 364 |
| MkT 2355 Toward Cenobie, and shortly for to seye, | 364 |
| MkT 2356 He made hire flee, and atte laste hire hente, | 366 |
| MkT 2357 And fettred hire, and eek hire children tweye, | 366 |
| MkT 2357 And fettred hire, and eek hire children tweye, | 366 |
| MkT 2358 And wan the land, and hoom to Rome he wente. | 368 |
| MkT 2358 And wan the land, and hoom to Rome he wente. | 368 |
| MkT 2360 Hir chaar, that was with gold wroght and perree, | 370 |
| MkT 2366 And ful of perree charged hire clothynge. | 376 |
| MkT 2368 Dredeful to kynges and to emperoures, | 378 |
| MkT 2370 And she that helmed was in starke stoures | 380 |
| MkT 2371 And wan by force townes stronge and toures, | 380 |
| MkT 2371 And wan by force townes stronge and toures, | 380 |
| MkT 2373 And she that bar the ceptre ful of floures | 382 |
| MkT 2379 And after, at a seege, by subtiltee, | 388 |
| MkT 2380 Thou were bitraysed and lad unto his tente, | 390 |
| MkT 2382 Succedynge in thy regne and in thy rente. | 392 |
| MkT 2385 He brew this cursednesse and al this synne. | 394 |
| MkT 2388 Of trouthe and honour, but of Armorike | 398 |
| MkT 2395 And for no thyng but for thy chivalrie | 404 |
| MkT 2397 Thus kan Fortune hir wheel governe and gye, | 406 |
| MkT 2398 And out of joye brynge men to sorwe. | 408 |
| MkT 2400 God of delit and scourge of Lumbardye, | 410 |
| MkT 2404 For he thy nevew was and sone-in-lawe, | 414 |
| MkT 2411 And with hym been his litel children thre; | 420 |
| MkT 2419 And putten hym to prisoun in swich wise | 428 |
| MkT 2420 As ye han herd, and mete and drynke he hadde | 430 |
| MkT 2420 As ye han herd, and mete and drynke he hadde | 430 |
| MkT 2422 And therwithal it was ful povre and badde. | 432 |
| MkT 2422 And therwithal it was ful povre and badde. | 432 |
| MkT 2423 And on a day bifil that in that hour | 432 |
| MkT 2427 And in his herte anon ther fil a thoght | 436 |
| MkT 2441 And seyde, " Farewel, fader, I moot dye! " | 450 |
| MkT 2442 And kiste his fader, and dyde the same day. | 452 |
| MkT 2442 And kiste his fader, and dyde the same day. | 452 |
| MkT 2443 And whan the woful fader deed it say, | 452 |
| MkT 2445 And seyde, " Allas, Fortune, and weylaway! | 454 |
| MkT 2445 And seyde, " Allas, Fortune, and weylaway! | 454 |
| MkT 2448 That he his armes gnow, and nat for wo, | 458 |
| MkT 2449 And seyde, " Fader, do nat so, allas! | 458 |
| MkT 2452 And ete ynogh " -- right thus they to hym seyde, | 462 |
| MkT 2453 And after that, withinne a day or two, | 462 |
| MkT 2454 They leyde hem in his lappe adoun and deyde. | 464 |
| MkT 2467 Bothe est and west, [south], and septemtrioun. | 476 |
| MkT 2467 Bothe est and west, [south], and septemtrioun. | 476 |
| MkT 2468 Of rubies, saphires, and of peerles white | 478 |
| MkT 2469 Were alle his clothes brouded up and doun, | 478 |
| MkT 2481 To heere how that men wolde wepe and crie; | 490 |
| MkT 2482 And slow his brother, and by his suster lay. | 492 |
| MkT 2482 And slow his brother, and by his suster lay. | 492 |
| MkT 2492 And drank anon -- noon oother wo he made. | 502 |
| MkT 2496 To teche hym letterure and curteisye, | 506 |
| MkT 2499 And whil this maister hadde of hym maistrye, | 508 |
| MkT 2500 He maked hym so konnyng and so sowple | 510 |
| MkT 2506 Discreetly, as by word and nat by dede -- | 516 |
| MkT 2508 Be vertuous and hate tirannye -- " | 518 |
| MkT 2518 And thus hath Nero slayn his maister deere. | 528 |
| MkT 2524 In heigh degree, and emperour hym calle. | 534 |
| MkT 2528 For his defaute, and whan he it espied, | 538 |
| MkT 2530 Allone, and ther he wende han been allied | 540 |
| MkT 2531 He knokked faste, and ay the moore he cried | 540 |
| MkT 2534 And wente his wey; no lenger dorste he calle. | 544 |
| MkT 2535 The peple cried and rombled up and doun, | 544 |
| MkT 2535 The peple cried and rombled up and doun, | 544 |
| MkT 2539 And to his goddes pitously he preyde | 548 |
| MkT 2542 And ran into a gardyn hym to hyde. | 552 |
| MkT 2543 And in this gardyn foond he cherles tweye | 552 |
| MkT 2544 That seten by a fyr, greet and reed. | 554 |
| MkT 2545 And to thise cherles two he gan to preye | 554 |
| MkT 2546 To sleen hym and to girden of his heed, | 556 |
| MkT 2550 Of which Fortune lough, and hadde a game. | 560 |
| MkT 2557 So likerously, and ladde hym up and doun | 566 |
| MkT 2557 So likerously, and ladde hym up and doun | 566 |
| MkT 2570 And yet, for al his pompe and al his myght, | 580 |
| MkT 2570 And yet, for al his pompe and al his myght, | 580 |
| MkT 2572 Slepynge, his heed of smoot, and from his tente | 582 |
| MkT 2574 And with his heed unto hir toun she wente. | 584 |
| MkT 2580 And rede the proude wordes that he seyde, | 590 |
| MkT 2581 And why he fil fro heigh prosperitee, | 590 |
| MkT 2582 And in an hill how wrecchedly he deyde. | 592 |
| MkT 2586 And in balance weyen ech montayne, | 596 |
| MkT 2587 And alle the floodes of the see restrayne. | 596 |
| MkT 2588 And Goddes peple hadde he moost in hate; | 598 |
| MkT 2589 Hem wolde he sleen in torment and in payne, | 598 |
| MkT 2591 And for that Nichanore and Thymothee | 600 |
| MkT 2591 And for that Nichanore and Thymothee | 600 |
| MkT 2595 And swoor, and seyde ful despitously | 604 |
| MkT 2595 And swoor, and seyde ful despitously | 604 |
| MkT 2601 That in his guttes carf it so and boot | 610 |
| MkT 2603 And certeinly the wreche was resonable, | 612 |
| MkT 2605 But from his purpos cursed and dampnable, | 614 |
| MkT 2608 And sodeynly, er he was of it war, | 618 |
| MkT 2609 God daunted al his pride and al his boost. | 618 |
| MkT 2611 That it his limes and his skyn totar, | 620 |
| MkT 2614 Al forbrused, bothe bak and syde. | 624 |
| MkT 2617 And therwithal he stank so horribly | 626 |
| MkT 2621 In this meschief he wayled and eek wepte, | 630 |
| MkT 2622 And knew God lord of every creature. | 632 |
| MkT 2623 To al his hoost and to hymself also | 632 |
| MkT 2626 And in this stynk and this horrible peyne, | 636 |
| MkT 2626 And in this stynk and this horrible peyne, | 636 |
| MkT 2628 Thus hath this robbour and this homycide, | 638 |
| MkT 2629 That many a man made to wepe and pleyne, | 638 |
| MkT 2637 The pride of man and beest he leyde adoun, | 646 |
| MkT 2640 Bitwixe hym and another conquerour; | 650 |
| MkT 2642 He was of knyghthod and of fredom flour; | 652 |
| MkT 2644 Save wyn and wommen, no thing myghte aswage | 654 |
| MkT 2645 His hye entente in armes and labour, | 654 |
| MkT 2648 Of Darius, and an hundred thousand mo | 658 |
| MkT 2650 Whiche he conquered, and broghte hem into wo? | 660 |
| MkT 2662 And for thee ne weep she never a teere. | 672 |
| MkT 2664 The deeth of gentillesse and of franchise, | 674 |
| MkT 2666 And yet hym thoughte it myghte nat suffise? | 676 |
| MkT 2669 False Fortune, and poyson to despise, | 678 |
| MkT 2671 By wisedom, manhede, and by greet labour, | 680 |
| MkT 2674 That wan al th' occident by land and see, | 684 |
| MkT 2676 And unto Rome made hem tributarie; | 686 |
| MkT 2677 And sitthe of Rome the emperour was he | 686 |
| MkT 2683 Thou thurgh thy knyghthod hast hem take and slawe, | 692 |
| MkT 2692 Of Julius, and hym the heed he broghte. | 702 |
| MkT 2701 And caste the place in which he sholde dye | 710 |
| MkT 2705 And in the Capitolie anon hym hente | 714 |
| MkT 2706 This false Brutus and his othere foon, | 716 |
| MkT 2707 And stiked hym with boydekyns anoon | 716 |
| MkT 2708 With many a wounde, and thus they lete hym lye; | 718 |
| MkT 2712 And so wel lovede estaatly honestee, | 722 |
| MkT 2716 And as he lay of diyng in a traunce, | 726 |
| MkT 2717 And wiste verraily that deed was hee, | 726 |
| MkT 2720 And to Swetoun, and to Valerius also, | 730 |
| MkT 2720 And to Swetoun, and to Valerius also, | 730 |
| MkT 2721 That of this storie writen word and ende, | 730 |
| MkT 2723 Fortune was first freend, and sitthe foo. | 732 |
| MkT 2730 And to be brent men to the fyr hym ladde. | 740 |
| MkT 2732 That slow the fyr, and made hym to escape; | 742 |
| MkT 2740 And eek a sweven upon a nyght he mette, | 750 |
| MkT 2741 Of which he was so proud and eek so fayn | 750 |
| MkT 2744 Ther Juppiter hym wessh, bothe bak and syde, | 754 |
| MkT 2745 And Phebus eek a fair towaille hym broughte | 754 |
| MkT 2746 To dryen hym with; and therfore wax his pryde, | 756 |
| MkT 2747 And to his doghter, that stood hym bisyde, | 756 |
| MkT 2750 And she his dreem bigan right thus expounde: | 760 |
| MkT 2752 And Juppiter bitokneth snow and reyn, | 762 |
| MkT 2752 And Juppiter bitokneth snow and reyn, | 762 |
| MkT 2753 And Phebus, with his towaille so clene, | 762 |
| MkT 2756 Reyn shal thee wasshe, and sonne shal thee drye. " | 766 |
| MkT 2757 Thus warned hym ful plat and ek ful pleyn | 766 |
| MkT 2766 And covere hire brighte face with a clowde. | 776 |