• Middle English humorous tales in verse / edited by George H. McKnight.Middle English humorous tales in verse / edited by George H. McKnight. McKnig...

þe þerfore hauen no shome! Þou seruest affter godes grome, Wen þou seist on me silk blame. For ich am old, and sek and lame; Seknesse haueþ maked me ful tame. Blesse þe, blesse þe, leue knaue! W. & M.

• Middle English humorous tales in verse / edited by George H. McKnight.Middle English humorous tales in verse / edited by George H. McKnight. McKnig...

schuld haue noȝht my-selue; To dele among theym strokys xii Me thouȝt it best, trewly. " The lordes lewȝe, both old and ȝenge, And all þat ther wer wyth þe kyng, They made solas I-nowȝe. They lewȝe, so þei myȝt

• The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterb...

Ialous he was / and heeld hire narwe in cage ffor she was yong and wylde / and he was old And demed hym self been lik / a Cokewold He knew nat Catoun / for his wit was rude

• The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Ellesmere ms of Chaucer's Canterb...

it oghte ynough suffise ffyue houres for to slepe / vp on a nyght But it were / for an old appalled wight As been thise wedded men / þat lye and dare As in a fourme / sit a

• The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury ...

Ialous he was / and heeld hire narwe in Cage ffor she was wilde and yong / and he was old And demed hym self / been lyk a Cokewold He knew nat Caton / for his wit was rude

• The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury ...

His sweuene / and bad hym for to kepe hym wel ffor trayson / but he nas but .vij. yeer old And therfore / litel tale hath he told Of any dreem / so holy was his herte By god

• The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury ...

As meke / as euere was any lamb to yow And with that word / anon ther gan appeere An old man / clad in white clothes cleere That hadde a book with lettre of gold in honde And gan

• The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Ca...

of age Ielous he was & held here narwe in cage ffor sche was wilde & ȝyng & he was old And demede hym self / ben lyk a coukewold He knew not catoun for hese wit was rude That

• The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Ca...

[ke corrected ] as e uere was ony lamb to ȝow And with that word a-noon there gan apeere An old man clad in white clothis cleere That hadde a bok with lettere of gold in honde And gan byforn

• The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Corpus ms...

of age Ialous he was and heeld hir narwe in cage ffor sche was wylde and ȝong and he was old And demed him self ben lik a Cokewold he knew not Caton for his witte was rude That bad

• The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Corpus ms...

boye it nedeþ neuer a del It was me told er ȝe came here to oures He was parde an old felawe of ȝoures Al sodeynly was he slayn to night / ffor-drunke as he sate vp his benche vpright

• The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Corpus ms...

A þousend frankes abouen al his costage his wyf ful redy mette him atte gate As sche was wont of old vsage algate And al þat night in mirþe þey besette / ffor he was riche and clerly out of

• The Corpus ms (Corpus Christi coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Corpus ms...

expouned eury del His sweuene and bad him for to kepe him wel ffor treson but he was seuen ȝeer old And þerfore litel tale haþ he told Of eny dreem so holly was his herte By god I hadde

• The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterb...

sche sendeþ here As meeke as any lombe was to ȝowe And wiþ þat worde anone þer gan apere And old man clad wiþ white cloþes clere And had a booke wiþ lettres of gold in honde And gan beforne

• The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterb...

vilanye Bot he trespas in worde eyþer in dede In holy write ȝe maie ȝoure self wele rede Aȝeines an old man hore vpon his hede Ȝe scholden arise wher-for .I. ȝif ȝowe rede Ne doþe nouht to an olde

• The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's C...

of age Gelous he was and heeld hir narwe in cage For sche was wilde & ȝong and he was old And demed himself be lik a Cokewold he knew nat Catoun for his wit was rude That bad man

• The right plesaunt and goodly historie of the foure sonnes of Aymon. Englisht from the French by William Caxton, and printed by him about 1489. Ed....

and ye have no neighbour that dare aske you ony thyng. Now, me semeth, by cause that I am now old, that I am but halfe a man, & yet not so gode as I wold be / and I

• The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian library. Edited by Carl Horstmann.The early South-Englis...

groyninde and wrath long, Of slouȝ wreche and Aruȝ mouth al. fereblet : fast. and loth to gyue guod, Sone old and nouȝt willesfol : stable and studefast of mod. Ho -so hath of þe watere mest : he schal

• The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian library. Edited by Carl Horstmann.The early South-Englis...

out of him gan teo And riȝt euene heo was i-seiȝe : into heouene fleo. Onneþe he was seue ȝer old : are he i-martred were— Alto soth is sweuene was : ase [men ] miȝten i-seo þere! ¶ Þis

• The early South-English legendary ; or, Lives of saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in the Bodleian library. Edited by Carl Horstmann.The early South-Englis...

i-seo. Þat aȝein children i-baptizede : heouene i-opened beo : For ore louerd was nyne-and-twenti ȝer : and twelf daywes old Are he i-baptized were : ase þe bok us hath i-told : Of al þat tyme non eorþelich Man