• Amis and Amiloun

the steward slain, And hou he schuld spousy to mede That ich maide, worthli in wede, That was so comly corn. Sir Amiloun light of his stede, And gan to chaungy her wede, As thai hadde don biforn. "Brother," he

• Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes: Tercia Pars

helpe hym now in his grete nede; And prudently purveied hym toforn Of flessh and fissh and of wyn and corn, Sette his capteyns erly and ek late With ful gret stuf strong at every gate, And mad also be

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• Book of Judges

fest. Phylysteyns fast can hym scorne, for he had bene a grevus geyst. At qwernes thei gart hym grynd ther corn, and fylth oft in his face thei kest, And grett byrdyns that suld be borne to gayr hym beyre

• Piers the Plowman's Crede

worthen, 90 Ne were wordlyche wele and her welfare? Thei schulden delven and diggen and dongen the erthe, And mene-mong corn bred to her mete fongen, And wortes flechles wroughte, and water to drinken, 91 And werchen and wolward gon,

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2: Introduction

are masters at "soubtil hond" behavior to obtain "[t]he beste goodes of the lond / And bringe chaf and take corn" (2.2125-27). The shift catches us as audience by surprise. It awakens us to the realization that Gower's concern is

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Book 1

winne Of his desir the vein astat. And whanne he comth anon therat, He scheweth thanne what he was. The corn is torned into gras, That was a rose is thanne a thorn, And he that was a lomb beforn

• Gower, Confessio Amantis: Book 8

youthe he may remembre In which the yeer hath his deduit Of gras, of lef, of flour, of fruit, Of corn and of the wyny grape. And afterward the time is schape To frost, to snow, to wind, to rein,

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 1

out of his hed arrace, And right forthewith in the silfe place He gan hem sowe, liche as men do corn, Upon the lond that ered was aforn. Of whiche sede ther sprang a wonder greyn, Bright armed knyghtes stondyng

• Capgrave, The Life of Saint Katherine: Book 2

care Whan ye be yung, lusty, and in good hele? Eke your countres beth as now not bare Neyther of corn, of men, ne of welfare. But to yow, syr, I wondir mych more than ye, For ye sey in

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• The Morall Fabillis

critical processes in his Parlement of Fowles: "For out of olde feldes, as men seyth, / Cometh al this newe corn from yer to yere, / And out of olde bokes, in good feyth, / Cometh al this newe science

• Havelok the Dane

of londe to fle, And berwen bothen ure lives, And mine children and mine wives." Grim solde sone al his corn, Shep with wolle, neth with horn, Hors and swin, geet with berd, The gees, the hennes of the yerd

• Fourth Book of Kings (2 Kings)

helpe hastely I hete thee. Befor this tym to morn, here in this same cyté, Of wyn and oyle and corn sall all men have plenté.” 1081. The kyng was of that word full fayn and his gud Ebrews yyng

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 2

And as I rede, that upon that flood, On eche asyde many mylle stood, Whan nede was her grayn and corn to grinde, Hem to sustene, in story as I fynde. This river eke, of fysche ful plenteuous, Devided was

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 4

can Atwen the coppis of Nysus and Cirra, Upon the hil beside Cirrea, Nor the, Cibeles, nor Ceres with thi corn, Nor Eolus of whom the dredful horn Is herde so fer, whan thou list to blowe, Nor Janus Bifrons

• Thomas Usk, The Testament of Love

dequace, quash. 468 flye, [to] fly; otherwhyle, at times. 472 jangleres, tattle-tellers. 473 viage, journey; rayne, rain; cornes, grains of corn. 474 bernes, barns. 476 clatering, loud talk; rownyng, whispering. 478 graffed, dug; groubed, dug around the roots of a

• The Book of Margery Kempe, Book II

dropys of watyr, fres and salt, cheselys of gravel, stonys smale and grete, gresys growyng in al erthe, kyrnellys of corn, fischys, fowelys, bestys and leevys upon treys whan most plent ben, fedir of fowle er her of best, seed