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| RomA 12 A jape, or elles nycete, | 12 |
| RomA 14 Let whoso lyste a fol me calle. | 14 |
| RomA 26 Me mette such a swevenyng | 26 |
| RomA 28 But in that sweven is never a del | 28 |
| RomA 64 That it wole have a newe shroud, | 64 |
| RomA 97 A sylvre nedle forth I drough | 96 |
| RomA 104 With a thred bastyng my slevis, | 104 |
| RomA 110 Toward a ryver gan I me dresse | 110 |
| RomA 135 And whan I had a while goon, | 134 |
| RomA 136 I saugh a gardyn right anoon, | 136 |
| RomA 149 Semede to ben a mynoresse, | 148 |
| RomA 150 An angry wight, a chideresse; | 150 |
| RomA 154 But lyk a wod womman afraied. | 154 |
| RomA 161 Ful grymly with a greet towayle. | 160 |
| RomA 163 A lyft half was hir faste by. | 162 |
| RomA 171 She semede a wikked creature. | 170 |
| RomA 186 Leneth to many a creature | 186 |
| RomA 224 A mantyl heng hir faste by, | 224 |
| RomA 225 Upon a perche, weik and small; | 224 |
| RomA 226 A burnet cote heng therwithall | 226 |
| RomA 228 But with a furre rough of her, | 228 |
| RomA 232 Ne hastith hir never a dell. | 232 |
| RomA 240 A purs that heng by a band, | 240 |
| RomA 240 A purs that heng by a band, | 240 |
| RomA 246 That fro that purs a peny wente. | 246 |
| RomA 260 And if a man in honour rise, | 260 |
| RomA 290 Hadde a wondirful lokyng, | 290 |
| RomA 293 And she hadde a [foul] usage: | 292 |
| RomA 321 A sorowful thyng wel semed she, | 320 |
| RomA 336 So wo-begon a thyng was she. | 336 |
| RomA 350 That shorter was a foot, iwys, | 350 |
| RomA 361 A foul, forwelked thyng was she, | 360 |
| RomA 368 A foot, but it were by potente. | 368 |
| RomA 402 More than a child of two yeer old. | 402 |
| RomA 407 And was a doted thing bicomen. | 406 |
| RomA 408 A furred cope on had she nomen; | 408 |
| RomA 417 Ne spareth never a wikked dede, | 416 |
| RomA 421 And semeth a simple creature; | 420 |
| RomA 431 A sauter held she fast in honde, | 430 |
| RomA 433 To make many a feynt praiere | 432 |
| RomA 446 To gete hem prys in toun a while; | 446 |
| RomA 447 And for a litel glorie veine | 446 |
| RomA 451 That not a peny hadde in wolde, | 450 |
| RomA 454 For nakid as a worm was she. | 454 |
| RomA 457 She nadde on but a streit old sak, | 456 |
| RomA 458 And many a clout on it ther stak: | 458 |
| RomA 460 No more was there, never a dell, | 460 |
| RomA 492 So riche a yer[d] was never noon | 492 |
| RomA 510 I fel fast in a weymentynge | 510 |
| RomA 524 Or hole, into so faire a place. | 524 |
| RomA 525 Tho gan I go a full gret pas | 524 |
| RomA 528 Tyl that I fond a wiket small | 528 |
| RomA 538 A mayden curteys openyde me. | 538 |
| RomA 541 Hir flesh tendre as is a chike, | 540 |
| RomA 546 Hir yen grey as is a faucoun, | 546 |
| RomA 550 A clove chynne eke hadde she. | 550 |
| RomA 555 Ther nys a fairer nekke, iwys, | 554 |
| RomA 561 A fairer body for to seke. | 560 |
| RomA 563 A chapelet so semly oon | 562 |
| RomA 566 A rose gerland had she sett. | 566 |
| RomA 567 She hadde [in honde] a gay mirrour, | 566 |
| RomA 568 And with a riche gold tressour | 568 |
| RomA 572 Of gloves white she had a paire. | 572 |
| RomA 573 And she hadde on a cote of grene | 572 |
| RomA 581 She ladde a lusty lyf in May: | 580 |
| RomA 612 As thou hast seen a while agoo. | 612 |
| RomA 639 A fair and joly companye | 638 |
| RomA 650 It semede a place espirituel, | 650 |
| RomA 655 For there was many a bridd syngyng, | 654 |
| RomA 722 These briddis syngyng on a rowe, | 722 |
| RomA 730 Doun by a lytel path I fond | 730 |
| RomA 744 Upon a karole wenten thoo. | 744 |
| RomA 745 A lady karolede hem that hyghte | 744 |
| RomA 761 And made many a fair tournyng | 760 |
| RomA 769 There was many a tymbestere, | 768 |
| RomA 774 Upon a fynger fair and softe, | 774 |
| RomA 795 A lady gan me for to espie, | 794 |
| RomA 805 I was abasshed never a dell, | 804 |
| RomA 818 A fairer man I nevere sigh. | 818 |
| RomA 825 His shuldris of a large brede, | 824 |
| RomA 827 He semed lyk a portreiture, | 826 |
| RomA 841 In many a place, lowe and hie. | 840 |
| RomA 845 His leef a rosyn chapelet | 844 |
| RomA 856 She semed lyk a rose newe | 856 |
| RomA 858 That with a brere smale and slendre | 858 |
| RomA 870 I, which seyen have a thousand, | 870 |
| RomA 875 Of which hir leef a robe werde | 874 |
| RomA 905 And many a rose-leef ful long | 904 |
| RomA 908 Of roses reed a chapelett, | 906 |
| RomA 909 But nyghtyngales, a ful gret route, | 908 |
| RomA 918 Love hadde with hym a bacheler | 916 |
| RomA 924 That oon of hem was of a tree | 922 |
| RomA 925 That bereth a fruyt of savour wykke; | 924 |
| RomA 929 That other bowe was of a plante | 928 |
| RomA 950 Out of a bowe for to dryve, | 948 |
| RomA 965 Yit can it make a ful gret wounde. | 964 |
| RomA 1004 Ladde on his hond a lady bright, | 1002 |
| RomA 1025 A ful gret savour and a swote | 1024 |
| RomA 1025 A ful gret savour and a swote | 1024 |
| RomA 1029 In world is noon so fair a wight, | 1028 |
| RomA 1042 To helpe and eke to greve a wyght. | 1040 |
| RomA 1050 Hir court hath many a losenger, | 1048 |
| RomA 1051 And many a traytour envyous, | 1050 |
| RomA 1062 Ful many a worthy man and wys, | 1060 |
| RomA 1071 Richesse a robe of purpur on hadde | 1070 |
| RomA 1074 Ne by a thousand deell so riche, | 1072 |
| RomA 1079 And with a bend of gold tasseled, | 1078 |
| RomA 1085 Rychesse a girdell hadde upon, | 1084 |
| RomA 1086 The bokel of it was of a stoon | 1084 |
| RomA 1092 And tyl a riche mannes byhove | 1090 |
| RomA 1095 Was of a stoon full precious, | 1094 |
| RomA 1097 That hol a man it koude make | 1096 |
| RomA 1099 And yit the stoon hadde such a grace | 1098 |
| RomA 1104 Upon a tyssu of satyn, | 1102 |
| RomA 1106 In everich was a besaunt-wight. | 1104 |
| RomA 1108 Was sette a cercle, for noblesse, | 1106 |
| RomA 1114 It is a wondir thing to here, | 1112 |
| RomA 1120 A fyn charboncle set saugh I. | 1118 |
| RomA 1124 A myle or two in lengthe and brede. | 1122 |
| RomA 1130 A yong man ful of semelyhede, | 1128 |
| RomA 1148 As it were poured in a garner. | 1146 |
| RomA 1171 A full gret fool is he, ywys, | 1170 |
| RomA 1173 A lord may have no maner vice | 1172 |
| RomA 1187 Largesse hadde on a robe fresh | 1186 |
| RomA 1192 Unto a lady maad present | 1190 |
| RomA 1193 Of a gold broche, ful wel wrought. | 1192 |
| RomA 1198 Hild by the hond a knyght of prys, | 1196 |
| RomA 1210 He caste doun many a doughty man. | 1208 |
| RomA 1223 And if a man were in distresse, | 1222 |
| RomA 1227 For were a man for hir bistad, | 1226 |
| RomA 1231 Hir thought it elles a vylanye. | 1230 |
| RomA 1232 And she hadde on a sukkenye, | 1230 |
| RomA 1236 Ther nas [nat] a poynt, trewely, | 1234 |
| RomA 1241 A womman wel more fetys is | 1240 |
| RomA 1246 Bi hir daunced a bacheler. | 1244 |
| RomA 1267 And by hir wente a knyght dauncyng, | 1266 |
| RomA 1271 And in armure a semely man, | 1270 |
| RomA 1291 In sich a gise that he hir kyste | 1290 |
| RomA 1296 They were ashamed never a dell, | 1294 |
| RomA 1319 A, Lord, they lyved lustyly! | 1318 |
| RomA 1320 A gret fool were he, sikirly, | 1318 |
| RomA 1326 As to have a love at his devys. | 1324 |
| RomA 1336 And at a braid he gan it bende, | 1334 |
| RomA 1345 Wente up and doun full many a wey, | 1344 |
| RomA 1356 Of pome-garnettys a full gret dell; | 1354 |
| RomA 1357 That is a fruyt full well to lyke, | 1356 |
| RomA 1364 Fyges, and many a date-tree | 1362 |
| RomA 1367 Ther was eke wexyng many a spice, | 1366 |
| RomA 1371 And many a spice delitable | 1370 |
| RomA 1386 And othere trees full many a payre. | 1384 |
| RomA 1407 And maden many a tourneying | 1406 |
| RomA 1416 Gan make a noyse ful lykyng. | 1414 |
| RomA 1422 As on a fetherbed to pleye, | 1420 |
| RomA 1428 That th' erthe was of such a grace | 1426 |
| RomA 1437 With many a fressh and sondri flour, | 1436 |
| RomA 1456 Besydes a wel, under a tree, | 1454 |
| RomA 1456 Besydes a wel, under a tree, | 1454 |
| RomA 1457 Which tree in Fraunce men cal a pyn. | 1456 |
| RomA 1462 And springyng in a marble ston | 1460 |
| RomA 1464 Under that pyn-tree a welle. | 1462 |
| RomA 1469 Narcisus was a bacheler | 1468 |
| RomA 1474 For a fayr lady that hight Echo | 1472 |
| RomA 1477 That on a tyme she him tolde | 1476 |
| RomA 1493 Myght on a day ben hampred so | 1492 |
| RomA 1504 A day whanne he com fro huntyng. | 1502 |
| RomA 1516 To drynken of that welle a draughte. | 1514 |
| RomA 1522 Of a child of gret beaute. | 1520 |
| RomA 1536 And diede withynne a lytel space. | 1534 |
| RomA 1571 That ye wole holde a gret mervayle | 1568 |
| RomA 1585 Ryght as a myrrour openly | 1582 |
| RomA 1628 Of which ther hath ful many a wight | 1626 |
| RomA 1638 A thousand thinges faste by. | 1636 |
| RomA 1650 Among a thousand thinges mo, | 1648 |
| RomA 1651 A roser chargid full of rosis, | 1648 |
| RomA 1658 That caught hath many a man and shent, | 1656 |
| RomA 1667 To pulle a rose of all that route | 1664 |
| RomA 1682 Ben passed in a day or two, | 1680 |
| RomB 1718 Was stondyng by a fige-tree. | 1716 |
| RomB 1740 Of blood have loren a full gret dell. | 1738 |
| RomB 1754 Al bledde I not a drope of blod. | 1752 |
| RomB 1758 Ne gete a leche my woundis to; | 1756 |
| RomB 1771 And Love hadde gete hym, in a throwe, | 1768 |
| RomB 1780 Into myn herte hath maad a wounde. | 1778 |
| RomB 1830 Feble as a forwoundid man, | 1828 |
| RomB 1857 But whanne a while I hadde be thar, | 1854 |
| RomB 1875 Yf me a martir wolde he make, | 1872 |
| RomB 1889 With a precious oynement, | 1886 |
| RomB 1896 Made in myn herte a large sore, | 1892 |
| RomB 1935 He is a fool in sikernesse, | 1932 |
| RomB 1988 For though a man fer wolde seche, | 1984 |
| RomB 1991 For sich a word ne myghte nought | 1988 |
| RomB 1992 Isse out of a vilayns thought. | 1988 |
| RomB 2016 So good a maister to have as me, | 2012 |
| RomB 2036 And gaf hym thankes many a oon, | 2032 |
| RomB 2080 Ye may therof do make a keye, | 2076 |
| RomB 2088 A litell keye, fetys ynowgh, | 2084 |
| RomB 2135 " A sire, for Goddis love, " seide I, | 2132 |
| RomB 2161 For a reder that poyntith ille | 2158 |
| RomB 2162 A good sentence may ofte spille. | 2158 |
| RomB 2182 And by his dedis a cherl is seyn. | 2178 |
| RomB 2197 As longeth to a gentilman; | 2194 |
| RomB 2200 A cherl is demed by his dede | 2196 |
| RomB 2258 A man amendith in myche thyng. | 2254 |
| RomB 2266 Loke at the leest thou have a paire, | 2262 |
| RomB 2288 A beaute that cometh not of kynde. | 2284 |
| RomB 2316 Pursue til thou a name hast wonne. | 2312 |
| RomB 2331 Resoun wole that a lover be | 2328 |
| RomB 2337 For he that thorough a sodeyn sight, | 2334 |
| RomB 2338 Or for a kyssyng, anoonright | 2334 |
| RomB 2350 A man to kepe, whanne it is breve. | 2346 |
| RomB 2374 I holde it but a wrecchid thyng; | 2370 |
| RomB 2380 Requyrith a gret guerdonyng. | 2376 |
| RomB 2409 Domm as a ston, without steryng | 2406 |
| RomB 2419 " After, a thought shal take the so, | 2416 |
| RomB 2435 A fool myself I may wel holde, | 2432 |
| RomB 2444 Thanne fallest thou in a newe rage; | 2440 |
| RomB 2458 Atteyne of hire to have a sight, | 2454 |
| RomB 2471 The peyne of love, unto a fer; | 2468 |
| RomB 2511 A sight of hir for to have, | 2508 |
| RomB 2541 For they in herte cunne thenke a thyng, | 2538 |
| RomB 2554 A thousand angres shall come uppon. | 2550 |
| RomB 2565 Thanne shall thee come a remembraunce | 2562 |
| RomB 2586 Twenty tymes upon a day | 2582 |
| RomB 2591 A, Lord! Why nyl ye me socoure | 2588 |
| RomB 2600 Allas, to gret a thing aske I! | 2596 |
| RomB 2602 To aske so outrageous a thyng; | 2598 |
| RomB 2611 It were to me a gret guerdoun, | 2608 |
| RomB 2621 A lok on hir I caste goodly, | 2618 |
| RomB 2624 A, Lord! Wher I shall byde the day | 2620 |
| RomB 2627 A, God! Whanne shal the dawnyng spring? | 2624 |
| RomB 2631 A man to lyen hath gret disese, | 2628 |
| RomB 2636 A, slowe sonne, shewe thin enprise! | 2632 |
| RomB 2718 A lovere shall do me servise. | 2714 |
| RomB 2734 Myght lyve a month, such peynes to fele. " | 2730 |
| RomB 2738 A man loveth more tendirly | 2734 |
| RomB 2742 For which a man hath suffred sore. | 2738 |
| RomB 2746 No more than a man [may] counte | 2742 |
| RomB 2806 To make a mirrour of his mynde; | 2802 |
| RomB 2828 And holpe many a bachiler, | 2824 |
| RomB 2829 And many a lady sent socour, | 2826 |
| RomB 2840 Ther was a lady fresh of hewe, | 2836 |
| RomB 2841 Which of hir love made a song | 2838 |
| RomB 2857 A felowe that can well concele, | 2854 |
| RomB 2888 To have a man thou darst say | 2884 |
| RomB 2892 Whanne such a freend thou hast assayed. | 2888 |
| RomB 2903 For to aswage a mannes sorowe, | 2900 |
| RomB 2905 For it is a full noble thing, | 2902 |
| RomB 2919 The eye is a good messanger, | 2916 |
| RomB 2924 That a gret party of his woo | 2920 |
| RomB 2981 I saw come with a glad cher | 2978 |
| RomB 2982 To me, a lusty bacheler, | 2978 |
| RomB 3015 But thanne a cherl (foule hym bityde!) | 3012 |
| RomB 3030 On many a just man doth he wreke. | 3026 |
| RomB 3031 Ther was a womman eke that hight | 3028 |
| RomB 3040 But Resoun conceyveth of a sighte | 3036 |
| RomB 3077 A leef all grene, and yaff me that, | 3074 |
| RomB 3117 A mochel fool thanne I were, | 3114 |
| RomB 3142 Thou worchist in a wrong maner. | 3138 |
| RomB 3146 Who serveth a feloun is yvel quit. | 3142 |
| RomB 3184 A quarter of my woo and peyn. | 3180 |
| RomB 3189 A long while stod I in that stat, | 3184 |
| RomB 3198 But best as it were in a mene. | 3194 |
| RomB 3201 And on hir heed she hadde a crowne. | 3196 |
| RomB 3207 For Nature hadde nevere such a grace, | 3202 |
| RomB 3208 To forge a werk of such compace. | 3204 |
| RomB 3240 And though a yong man in ony wise | 3236 |
| RomB 3259 For er a thing be do, he shall, | 3254 |
| RomB 3264 Of falsnesse, for to seyne a tale. | 3260 |
| RomB 3274 His scole he lesith, if he be a clerk. | 3270 |
| RomB 3292 Whanne thou were brought in sich a rage | 3288 |
| RomB 3320 That he it sparrede with a keye. | 3316 |
| RomB 3336 Forwery, forwandred as a fool, | 3332 |
| RomB 3340 A felowe to whom I myghte seye | 3336 |
| RomB 3344 Hadde a felowe faste by, | 3340 |
| RomB 3346 And he was called by name a Freend -- | 3342 |
| RomB 3347 A trewer felowe was nowher noon. | 3342 |
| RomB 3375 A feloun first though that he be, | 3370 |
| RomB 3401 And in his hond a gret burdoun. | 3396 |
| RomB 3426 A thyng that may not warned be, | 3422 |
| RomB 3464 A man may overcome ofte | 3460 |
| RomB 3491 That Love me ladde in sich a wise | 3486 |
| RomB 3530 Or on youre man a werre make, | 3526 |
| RomB 3598 Wherfore a sorouful man is he. | 3594 |
| RomB 3634 To sene it was a goodly thyng. | 3630 |
| RomB 3640 It was theron a goodly syght; | 3636 |
| RomB 3653 That he me wolde graunt a thyng, | 3648 |
| RomB 3658 To have a kyssynge precious | 3654 |
| RomB 3663 Have a cos therof freely, | 3658 |
| RomB 3684 A man shulde nat to moche assay | 3680 |
| RomB 3706 Of brennyng fyr a blasyng brond, | 3702 |
| RomB 3708 Hath many a lady in desir | 3704 |
| RomB 3725 And to hym shortly, in a clause, | 3720 |
| RomB 3729 To graunte hym nothyng but a kis? | 3724 |
| RomB 3746 Graunte hym a kis, of gentilnysse! | 3742 |
| RomB 3750 To graunte that a kis have he. | 3746 |
| RomB 3766 It is fair sich a flour to kisse, | 3762 |
| RomB 3774 That with a litel wynde it nille | 3770 |
| RomB 3839 And faste loken in a tour, | 3834 |
| RomB 3864 Weryng a vayle in stide of wymple, | 3860 |
| RomB 3867 She gan to speke withynne a throwe | 3862 |
| RomB 3874 On Bialacoil a fals lesyng. | 3870 |
| RomB 3942 To make anoon a forteresse, | 3938 |
| RomB 3944 In myddis shall I make a tour | 3940 |
| RomB 3955 A fool is eythe to bigyle; | 3950 |
| RomB 3956 But may I lyve a litel while, | 3952 |
| RomB 3962 That not a word durste he say, | 3958 |
| RomB 3975 Whanne onys sprongen is a fame. | 3970 |
| RomB 3976 For many a yeer withouten blame | 3972 |
| RomB 3977 We han ben, and many a day; | 3972 |
| RomB 3978 For many an Aprill and many a May | 3974 |
| RomB 4004 But in the stede a trusse of gras. | 4000 |
| RomB 4005 He slombred, and a nappe he tok, | 4000 |
| RomB 4030 A cherl chaungeth that curteis is. | 4026 |
| RomB 4033 Make a sperhauk of a bosard. | 4028 |
| RomB 4033 Make a sperhauk of a bosard. | 4028 |
| RomB 4054 Enclose hym in a sturdy wall; | 4050 |
| RomB 4083 Perced to be with many a wounde, | 4078 |
| RomB 4092 And hente a burdoun in his hond. | 4088 |
| RomB 4098 That no man myghte touche a rose | 4094 |
| RomB 4112 Full ofte a day sen and biholde. | 4108 |
| RomB 4134 With many a turnyng to and froo, | 4130 |
| RomB 4143 On me he leieth a pitous charge, | 4138 |
| RomB 4150 He hirede hem to make a tour. | 4146 |
| RomB 4152 Aboute hem made he a diche deep, | 4148 |
| RomB 4155 Of squared stoon a sturdy wall, | 4150 |
| RomB 4156 Which on a cragge was founded all; | 4152 |
| RomB 4164 Ful many a riche and fair touret. | 4160 |
| RomB 4166 Was set a tour full pryncipall; | 4162 |
| RomB 4168 A porte-colys defensable | 4164 |
| RomB 4172 Was maad a tour of gret maistrise; | 4168 |
| RomB 4173 A fairer saugh no man with sight, | 4168 |
| RomB 4186 Aboute the tour was maad a wall, | 4182 |
| RomB 4227 For with a puff of litell wynd | 4222 |
| RomB 4231 A foulis flight wol make hir flee, | 4226 |
| RomB 4232 And eke a shadowe, if she it see. | 4228 |
| RomB 4256 Unto hir husbonde a trewe wyf, | 4252 |
| RomB 4260 A man speken of leccherie. | 4256 |
| RomB 4264 Another hath a likerous ye; | 4260 |
| RomB 4266 Another is a chideresse. | 4262 |
| RomB 4278 That hath maad a tour so round, | 4274 |
| RomB 4279 And made aboute a garisoun, | 4274 |
| RomB 4322 I wende a bought it all queyntly; | 4318 |
| RomB 4325 And me a newe bargeyn leere, | 4320 |
| RomB 4336 May falle a weder that shal it dere, | 4332 |
| RomB 4343 Ben me byraft all with a storm; | 4338 |
| RomB 4358 For [in] a twynklyng turneth hir wheel. | 4354 |
| RomB 4364 A fool is he that wole hir trust; | 4360 |
| RomB 4377 A, Bialacoil, myn owne deer! | 4372 |
| RomB 4378 Though thou be now a prisoner, | 4374 |
| RomB 4389 A trewe herte wole not plie | 4384 |
| RomB 4417 A, Bialacoil, full wel I see | 4412 |
| RomB 4449 A, that is a full noyous thyng! | 4444 |
| RomB 4449 A, that is a full noyous thyng! | 4444 |
| RomB 4450 For many a lover, in lovyng, | 4446 |
| RomB 4457 A full good silogisme, I dreede | 4452 |
| RomB 4478 They doon a gret contrarie. | 4474 |
| RomB 4495 A rympled vekke, fer ronne in age, | 4490 |
| RomB 4498 That noon of him may have a sight. | 4494 |
| RomB 4520 Out of so strong a forteresse? | 4516 |
| RomB 4531 A foolis word is nought to trowe, | 4526 |
| RomB 4535 I was a fool, and she me leeved, | 4530 |
| RomB 4540 A fool mysilf I may well calle, | 4536 |
| RomB 4548 A fals traitour thanne shulde I be. | 4544 |
| RomB 4617 And I not where to fynde a leche | 4612 |
| RomB 4639 " Thou servest a full noble lord, | 4634 |
| RomB 4648 Thou didist a gret foly than, | 4644 |
| RomB 4654 Thou noldist serve hym half a yeer, | 4650 |
| RomB 4655 Not a weke, nor half a day, | 4650 |
| RomB 4655 Not a weke, nor half a day, | 4650 |
| RomB 4668 Raisoun " Lo, there a noble conisaunce! | 4664 |
| RomB 4688 A thyng that is not demonstrable. | 4684 |
| RomB 4704 A free acquitaunce, withoute relees, | 4700 |
| RomB 4705 A trouthe, fret full of falsheede, | 4700 |
| RomB 4706 A sikernesse all set in drede. | 4702 |
| RomB 4707 In herte is a dispeiryng hope, | 4702 |
| RomB 4710 A swete perell in to droun; | 4706 |
| RomB 4712 A wikked wawe, awey to were. | 4708 |
| RomB 4722 A thurst drowned in dronknesse, | 4718 |
| RomB 4726 And a gredy suffisaunce; | 4722 |
| RomB 4733 A peyne also it is, joious, | 4728 |
| RomB 4737 A strengthe, weyked to stonde upright, | 4732 |
| RomB 4741 A laughter it is, weping ay; | 4736 |
| RomB 4743 Also a swete helle it is, | 4738 |
| RomB 4744 And a soroufull paradys; | 4740 |
| RomB 4745 A pleasant gayl and esy prisoun, | 4740 |
| RomB 4751 It is a slowe, may not forbere | 4746 |
| RomB 4810 It is a syknesse of the thought | 4806 |
| RomB 4830 Sich love I preise not at a lek. | 4826 |
| RomB 4835 With many a lesyng and many a fable, | 4830 |
| RomB 4835 With many a lesyng and many a fable, | 4830 |
| RomB 4852 To geten a likly thyng hym til, | 4848 |
| RomB 4863 To use that werk on such a wise | 4858 |
| RomB 4869 For noon wolde drawe therof a draught, | 4864 |
| RomB 4884 In a bok he made `Of Age,' | 4878 |
| RomB 4911 Though for a tyme his herte absente, | 4906 |
| RomB 4946 Hou it hem brought in many a rage, | 4940 |
| RomB 4947 And many a foly therynne wrought. | 4942 |
| RomB 4969 Of many a perelous emprise, | 4964 |
| RomB 5040 They wole it holde a gret myschaunce; | 5034 |
| RomB 5053 For litel shulde a man telle | 5048 |
| RomB 5058 He is a wrecche, I undirtake, | 5052 |
| RomB 5069 [Ne] may a jewel or other thyng | 5064 |
| RomB 5106 A sory gest, in goode fay, | 5100 |
| RomB 5128 Certeyn I holde it but a gras. | 5122 |
| RomB 5139 And yitt ne seide she never a del | 5134 |
| RomB 5165 From me, [and] [ben] a synfull wrecche | 5160 |
| RomB 5176 He were a fool, wolde you not trowe! | 5170 |
| RomB 5185 Raisoun " Certis, freend, a fool art thou, | 5180 |
| RomB 5197 And bringith thee in many a fit, | 5192 |
| RomB 5241 A good man brenneth in his thought | 5236 |
| RomB 5250 And founde hym stedefast as a wall, | 5244 |
| RomB 5261 Repreve he dredeth never a deel, | 5256 |
| RomB 5266 A fooles belle is soone runge. | 5260 |
| RomB 5267 Yit shal a trewe freend do more | 5262 |
| RomB 5286 Spak Tulius in a ditee: | 5280 |
| RomB 5373 For if he be a nygard ek, | 5368 |
| RomB 5374 Men wole not sette by hym a lek, | 5368 |
| RomB 5384 Nomore than is a goot ramage. | 5378 |
| RomB 5391 And til a wikked deth hym take. | 5386 |
| RomB 5405 A wondir will Y telle thee now, | 5400 |
| RomB 5417 For lyche a moder she can cherish, | 5412 |
| RomB 5418 And mylken as doth a norys, | 5412 |
| RomB 5423 In a stat that is not stable, | 5418 |
| RomB 5452 And han therof a rejoysyng, | 5446 |
| RomB 5460 Nor of a thousand full scarsly, | 5454 |
| RomB 5473 As a stepmoder envyous, | 5468 |
| RomB 5474 And leieth a plastre dolorous | 5468 |
| RomB 5534 Among a thousand that fyndith oon. | 5528 |
| RomB 5576 Sith that it makith hym a wise man, | 5570 |
| RomB 5650 In a book that `The Golden Verses' | 5644 |
| RomB 5657 He is a fool, withouten were, | 5652 |
| RomB 5671 A wise man seide, as we may seen, | 5666 |
| RomB 5674 And many a ribaud is mery and baud, | 5668 |
| RomB 5676 Many a burthen of gret myght, | 5670 |
| RomB 5699 His herte in sich a were is sett | 5694 |
| RomB 5709 He undirfongith a gret peyne, | 5704 |
| RomB 5726 That if a man falle in siknesse, | 5720 |
| RomB 5730 And though they die, they sette not a lek. | 5724 |
| RomB 5760 For prechyng of a cursed man, | 5754 |
| RomB 5762 Hymsilf it availeth not a myte; | 5756 |
| RomC 5822 Ne smyte a strok in this bataile, | 5816 |
| RomC 5842 That he hath geten a peny or two | 5836 |
| RomC 5894 She hath tan many a forteresse, | 5888 |
| RomC 5895 That cost hath many a pound, er this, | 5890 |
| RomC 5903 " Go bye a courser, blak or whit, | 5898 |
| RomC 5983 If I may grype a riche man, | 5978 |
| RomC 5985 That he shal in a fewe stoundes | 5980 |
| RomC 6036 Though ye you medle never a del. | 6030 |
| RomC 6070 Certeyn, thou art a fals traitour, | 6064 |
| RomC 6071 And eke a theef; sith thou were born, | 6066 |
| RomC 6072 A thousand tyme thou art forsworn. | 6066 |
| RomC 6114 " They made a full good engendryng, " | 6108 |
| RomC 6169 Than lete a purpos that I take, | 6164 |
| RomC 6187 That [hath. a foul conclusioun. | 6182 |
| RomC 6188 `I have a robe of religioun, | 6182 |
| RomC 6191 It is not worth a croked brere. | 6186 |
| RomC 6200 That he dar sey a word therto. | 6194 |
| RomC 6228 Shulde lede a wikked lyf, parfey, | 6222 |
| RomC 6234 Full many a seynt in feeld and toun, | 6228 |
| RomC 6235 With many a virgine glorious, | 6228 |
| RomC 6239 I cowde reken you many a ten; | 6232 |
| RomC 6243 That baren full many a fair child heere, | 6236 |
| RomC 6259 " Whoso took a wethers skyn, | 6252 |
| RomC 6260 And wrapped a gredy wolf theryn, | 6254 |
| RomC 6307 Forsothe, I am a fals traitour; | 6300 |
| RomC 6308 God jugged me for a theef trichour. | 6302 |
| RomC 6342 In many a queynte array feyned. | 6334 |
| RomC 6345 Somtyme a wommans cloth take I; | 6338 |
| RomC 6346 Now am I a mayde, now lady. | 6338 |
| RomC 6350 And now a nonne, and now abbesse; | 6342 |
| RomC 6370 Now is not this a propre thing? | 6362 |
| RomC 6374 For I dide hem a tregetry. | 6366 |
| RomC 6380 That I lede right a joly lyf, | 6372 |
| RomC 6385 Onys a yeer, as seith the book, | 6376 |
| RomC 6400 Ne be not rebel never a del. | 6392 |
| RomC 6406 Thou shalt not streyne me a del, | 6398 |
| RomC 6464 I yeve not of her harm a bene! | 6456 |
| RomC 6468 I shal yeve hem a strok or two, | 6460 |
| RomC 6479 Telle forth, and shame thee never a del; | 6470 |
| RomC 6488 As shulde a maister of dyvyn; | 6480 |
| RomC 6493 Than of a pore man of mylde mod, | 6484 |
| RomC 6507 But a riche sik usurer | 6498 |
| RomC 6522 Hath a soule in right gret poverte | 6514 |
| RomC 6531 As it is knowe to many a wight, | 6522 |
| RomC 6535 For if a riche man hym dresse | 6526 |
| RomC 6541 Unnethe that he nys a mycher | 6532 |
| RomC 6559 That, parde, they myght aske a thing | 6550 |
| RomC 6573 A myghty man, that can and may, | 6564 |
| RomC 6576 If he ne have rent or sich a thing, | 6568 |
| RomC 6587 A parfit man ne shulde seke | 6578 |
| RomC 6602 He is a trechour, ful of fable; | 6594 |
| RomC 6635 I wole not entremete a del; | 6626 |
| RomC 6645 And if ye such a truaunt fynde, | 6636 |
| RomC 6671 For in this world is many a man | 6662 |
| RomC 6685 " Telle me thanne how a man may lyven, | 6676 |
| RomC 6691 Seynt Austyn seith a man may be | 6682 |
| RomC 6701 And yit full many a monk laboureth, | 6692 |
| RomC 6706 As many a wight may bere record, | 6696 |
| RomC 6709 Telle how a man may begge at nede, | 6700 |
| RomC 6716 If a man be so bestial | 6706 |
| RomC 6747 Or if a man wolde undirtake | 6738 |
| RomC 6785 He made a book, and lete it write, | 6776 |
| RomC 6796 Under a cope of papelardie. " | 6786 |
| RomC 6857 Where fyndest thou a swynker of labour | 6846 |
| RomC 6874 Hir paroch-prest nys but a beest | 6864 |
| RomC 6897 But doth not as they don a del; | 6886 |
| RomC 6947 That doth a good turn, out of drede, | 6936 |
| RomC 6951 A man thurgh hym avaunced be; | 6940 |
| RomC 6980 That is to me a gret lykyng. | 6970 |
| RomC 7008 Bet than a fish doth with his fynne. | 6998 |
| RomC 7025 Or if a wight out of mesure | 7014 |
| RomC 7050 He shal have of a corde a loigne, | 7040 |
| RomC 7050 He shal have of a corde a loigne, | 7040 |
| RomC 7054 A myle-wey aboute, and more; | 7044 |
| RomC 7060 Do maken up a tour of height, | 7050 |
| RomC 7097 A thousand and two hundred yeer, | 7086 |
| RomC 7099 Broughten a book, with sory grace, | 7088 |
| RomC 7123 And many a such comparisoun, | 7110 |
| RomC 7137 They nolde shewe more a del, | 7124 |
| RomC 7139 Til such a tyme that they may see | 7126 |
| RomC 7159 We wole a puple upon hym areyse, | 7146 |
| RomC 7259 That frouncen lyke a quaile pipe, | 7246 |
| RomC 7260 Or botis rivelyng as a gype; | 7248 |
| RomC 7265 To such folk shulde a prince hym yive, | 7252 |
| RomC 7290 Ye shulde have a stark lesyng | 7278 |
| RomC 7295 And seide, " Lo, heere a man aright | 7282 |
| RomC 7341 They wente hem forth, alle in a route, | 7328 |
| RomC 7362 As it were in a pilgrimage, | 7350 |
| RomC 7365 Tok on a robe of kamelyne, | 7352 |
| RomC 7366 And gan hir graithe as a Bygyne. | 7354 |
| RomC 7367 A large coverechief of thred | 7354 |
| RomC 7370 A peire of bedis eke she ber | 7358 |
| RomC 7371 Upon a las, all of whit thred, | 7358 |
| RomC 7373 But she ne bought hem never a del, | 7360 |
| RomC 7375 God wot, of a full hooly frere, | 7362 |
| RomC 7380 And many a sermoun seide hir to; | 7368 |
| RomC 7397 Of such a colour enlangoured | 7384 |
| RomC 7401 She had a burdown al of Thefte, | 7388 |
| RomC 7403 And a skryppe of Faynt Distresse, | 7390 |
| RomC 7408 Don on the cope of a frer, | 7396 |
| RomC 7412 About his necke he bar a byble, | 7400 |
| RomC 7415 He had of Treason a potente; | 7402 |
| RomC 7418 A rasour sharp and wel bytynge, | 7406 |
| RomC 7419 That was forged in a forge, | 7406 |
| RomC 7431 For he ne dredde hem not a del. | 7418 |
| RomC 7450 Thou woldest on a bok have sworn, | 7438 |
| RomC 7454 Was tho become a Jacobyn. | 7442 |
| RomC 7497 A short sermon unto you sayn. " | 7484 |
| RomC 7517 Thou spake a jape not longe ago, | 7504 |
| RomC 7519 Of a young man that here repayred, | 7506 |
| RomC 7536 That many a fals leasyng hath thought | 7524 |
| RomC 7550 He yeveth nat now therof a myte. | 7538 |
| RomC 7585 That han a lyer called me! | 7572 |
| RomC 7599 Why shulde men sey me such a thyng, | 7586 |
| RomC 7634 Though me hym thrilled with a spere; | 7622 |
| RomC 7670 Semblant, a good man semen ye, | 7658 |
| RomC 7684 A thousand tyme more pitee | 7672 |