• The Palis of Honoure

Plenyst with plesance, lyke to parradyce, I saw a plane of peirles pulcritude Quharein abondyt every thingis gude: Spyce, wyne, corn, ule, tre, frute, flour, herbis grene, All foulys, bestis, byrdys and alkynde fude. All maner fyschis, bayth of see

• Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes

housbondly governaille. "With plow can I nat medlen ne with harwe, Ne woot nat what lond good is for what corn, And for to lade a cart or fille a barwe, To which I nevere usid was toforn; My bak

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, volume 2, Book 2

stant no doute To voide with a soubtil hond The beste goodes of the lond And bringe chaf and take corn. Whereas Fa-crere goth toforn, In all his weie he fynt no lette; That dore can non huissher schette In

• John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Volume 2, Book 4

to lerne newe. Bot er the time that men siewe, And that the labour forth it broghte, Ther was no corn, thogh men it soghte, In non of al the fieldes oute; And er the wisdom cam aboute Of hem

• The Book of John Mandeville

and wham he hateth most. And another ile is ther which they calle Pytan. Men of this ile tylyeth no corn lond, for they [fol. 59r] ete noght. And they ben smale men, but noght so smale as ben pigmans.

• William Dunbar: The Complete Works

(see note) (t-note) shoes; fitting flaws; ill-made feet Therefore; souls will fly fair (i.e., world); deformed person; (see note) a corn Arthritic toes nor chilblains hide; (see note); (t-note) clothes goes Though; mis-fashioned fellow; (t-note) shape fashion; by three times