| ASCENDENT........1 | |
| WBT 613 Myn ascendent was Taur, and Mars therinne. | 618 |
| ASSAILLED........2 | |
| WBT 256 That is assailled upon ech a syde. | 262 |
| WBT 264 It may so longe assailled been overal. | 270 |
| ASSAY............1 | |
| WBT 290 But folk of wyves maken noon assay, | 296 |
| ASSAYED..........1 | |
| WBT 286 They been assayed at diverse stoundes; | 292 |
| ASSEMBLE.........1 | |
| WBT 89 For peril is bothe fyr and tow t' assemble; | 94 |
| ASSENT...........1 | |
| WBT 234 Of hir assent. But herkneth how I sayde: | 240 |
| ASSES............1 | |
| WBT 285 Thou seist that oxen, asses, hors, and houndes, | 290 |
| ASTROLOGIEN......1 | |
| WBT 324 The wise astrologien, Daun Ptholome, | 330 |
| AT...............20 | |
| WBT 6 Housbondes at chirche dore I have had fyve -- | 6 |
| WBT 218 That som men han in Essex at Dunmowe. | 224 |
| WBT 238 I sitte at hoom; I have no thrifty clooth. | 244 |
| WBT 239 What dostow at my neighebores hous? | 244 |
| WBT 286 They been assayed at diverse stoundes; | 292 |
| WBT 322 Wher that we goon; we wol ben at oure large. | 328 |
| WBT 332 Ye shul have queynte right ynogh at eve. | 338 |
| WBT 334 A man to lighte a candle at his lanterne; | 340 |
| WBT 421 I wolde nat spare hem at hir owene bord, | 426 |
| WBT 522 Greet prees at market maketh deere ware, | 528 |
| WBT 523 And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys: | 528 |
| WBT 528 And hadde left scole, and wente at hom to bord | 534 |
| WBT 550 Myn housbonde was at Londoun al that Lente; | 556 |
| WBT 627 What sholde I seye but, at the monthes ende, | 632 |
| WBT 646 Lookynge out at his dore upon a day. | 652 |
| WBT 648 That, for his wyf was at a someres game | 654 |
| WBT 672 At which book he lough alwey ful faste. | 678 |
| WBT 673 And eek ther was somtyme a clerk at Rome, | 678 |
| WBT 741 Amphiorax at Thebes loste his lyf. | 746 |
| WBT 746 For which he hadde at Thebes sory grace. | 752 |
| ATTE.............4 | |
| WBT 73 Poul dorste nat comanden, atte leeste, | 78 |
| WBT 404 Atte ende I hadde the bettre in ech degree, | 410 |
| WBT 799 Til atte laste out of my swogh I breyde. | 804 |
| WBT 811 But atte laste, with muchel care and wo, | 816 |
| AUCTORITEE.......1 | |
| WBT 1 " Experience, though noon auctoritee | 0 |
| AVAUNTE..........1 | |
| WBT 403 And thus of o thyng I avaunte me: | 408 |
| AVERILL..........1 | |
| WBT 546 And for to walke in March, Averill, and May, | 552 |
| AWAY.............1 | |
| WBT 782 He seyde, `A womman cast hir shame away, | 788 |
| AWEY.............1 | |
| WBT 309 The keyes of thy cheste awey fro me? | 314 |
| AXE..............1 | |
| WBT 21 But that I axe, why that the fifthe man | 20 |
| AY...............3 | |
| WBT 583 But as I folwed ay my dames loore, | 588 |
| WBT 615 I folwed ay myn inclinacioun | 620 |
| WBT 781 They haten that hir housbondes loven ay.' | 786 |
| BA...............1 | |
| WBT 433 Com neer, my spouse, lat me ba thy cheke! | 438 |
| BAAR.............2 | |
| WBT 224 Now herkneth hou I baar me proprely, | 230 |
| WBT 380 Baar I stifly myne olde housbondes on honde | 386 |
| BACON............2 | |
| WBT 217 The bacon was nat fet for hem, I trowe, | 222 |
| WBT 418 And yet in bacon hadde I nevere delit. | 424 |
| BACYNS...........1 | |
| WBT 287 Bacyns, lavours, er that men hem bye, | 292 |
| BAD..............3 | |
| WBT 28 God bad us for to wexe and multiplye; | 28 |
| WBT 108 Bad nat every wight he sholde go selle | 114 |
| WBT 161 And bad oure housbondes for to love us weel. | 166 |
| BADDE............1 | |
| WBT 196 As thre of hem were goode, and two were badde. | 202 |
| BAKWARD..........1 | |
| WBT 793 That in oure fyr he fil bakward adoun. | 798 |
| BAR..............1 | |
| WBT 575 I bar hym on honde he hadde enchanted me -- | 580 |
| BAREL-FUL........1 | |
| WBT 302 Thus seistow, olde barel-ful of lyes! | 308 |
| BAREYNE..........1 | |
| WBT 372 To bareyne lond, ther water may nat dwelle. | 378 |
| BARLY-BREED......2 | |
| WBT 144 And lat us wyves hoten barly-breed; | 150 |
| WBT 145 And yet with barly-breed, Mark telle kan, | 150 |
| BE...............44 | |
| WBT 5 Thonked be God that is eterne on lyve, | 4 |
| WBT 13 That I ne sholde wedded be but ones. | 12 |
| WBT 38 To be refresshed half so ofte as he! | 38 |
| WBT 44 Yblessed be God that I have wedded fyve! | 44 |
| WBT 51 He seith that to be wedded is no synne; | 56 |
| WBT 52 Bet is to be wedded than to brynne. | 58 |
| WBT 97 It liketh hem to be clene, body and goost; | 102 |
| WBT 125 So that the clerkes be nat with me wrothe, | 130 |
| WBT 143 Lat hem be breed of pured whete-seed, | 148 |
| WBT 151 If I be daungerous, God yeve me sorwe! | 156 |
| WBT 155 Which shal be bothe my dettour and my thral, | 160 |
| WBT 178 Be war of it, er thou to ny approche; | 184 |
| WBT 180 `Whoso that nyl be war by othere men, | 186 |
| WBT 181 By hym shul othere men corrected be.' | 186 |
| WBT 230 But if it be whan they hem mysavyse. | 236 |
| WBT 242 Sire olde lecchour, lat thy japes be! | 248 |
| WBT 250 And if that she be riche, of heigh parage, | 256 |
| WBT 253 And if that she be fair, thou verray knave, | 258 |
| WBT 265 And if that she be foul, thou seist that she | 270 |
| WBT 277 Moote thy welked nekke be tobroke! | 282 |
| WBT 283 Til we be fast, and thanne we wol hem shewe -- | 288 |
| WBT 284 Wel may that be a proverbe of a shrewe! | 290 |
| WBT 291 Til they be wedded -- olde dotard shrewe! -- | 296 |
| WBT 314 Be maister of my body and of my good; | 320 |
| WBT 323 Of alle men yblessed moot he be, | 328 |
| WBT 351 And if the cattes skyn be slyk and gay, | 356 |
| WBT 353 But forth she wole, er any day be dawed, | 358 |
| WBT 355 This is to seye, if I be gay, sire shrewe, | 360 |
| WBT 359 To be my warde-cors, as he kan best, | 364 |
| WBT 370 But if a sely wyf be oon of tho? | 376 |
| WBT 375 To consume every thyng that brent wole be. | 380 |
| WBT 450 Ye be to blame, by God! I sey yow sooth.' | 456 |
| WBT 479 But yet to be right myrie wol I fonde. | 484 |
| WBT 490 For which I hope his soule be in glorie. | 496 |
| WBT 545 For evere yet I loved to be gay, | 550 |
| WBT 552 And for to se, and eek for to be seye | 558 |
| WBT 554 Was shapen for to be, or in what place? | 560 |
| WBT 608 I hadde the beste quoniam myghte be. | 614 |
| WBT 621 For God so wys be my savacioun, | 626 |
| WBT 661 Ne I wolde nat of hym corrected be. | 666 |
| WBT 690 But if it be of hooly seintes lyves, | 696 |
| WBT 776 Be with a leon or a foul dragoun, | 782 |
| WBT 784 `A fair womman, but she be chaast also, | 790 |
| WBT 802 Er I be deed, yet wol I kisse thee.' | 808 |
| BEAUTEE..........2 | |
| WBT 294 But if that thou wolt preyse my beautee, | 300 |
| WBT 475 Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. | 480 |
| BED..............5 | |
| WBT 88 He mente as in his bed or in his couche, | 94 |
| WBT 409 I wolde no lenger in the bed abyde, | 414 |
| WBT 508 But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay, | 514 |
| WBT 579 And al my bed was ful of verray blood; | 584 |
| WBT 766 That somme han slayn hir housbondes in hir bed, | 772 |