• 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...

þat i-saiȝ : ¶ Ase þis wyf ȝeode a day toward churche : þe deuel cam hire to And seide þat heo ȝeode for nauȝht : for þe Masse was i-do. Þat guode wyf ȝeode hom a-ȝein : and wende

• The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark. Godstow nunnery.The englis...

A Charter of Robert Schelleston of Bokelond and Margery his wyf late the wyf of Symond Iedewyne of wightham confermyng to Iohn woderove of wightham and to Isabelle his wyf a mese called Cartersplace in wightham, & cetera. 1428 /9,

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

þou woldest loke me in þi cheste þou scholdest seie wyf go where þe leste Take youre disporte I wol not leue no tales I knowe ȝow for a good wyf dame Alis We loue no man þat takeþ keepe

• Altenglische dichtungen des ms. Harl, 2253. Boeddeker, Karl, ed. 1846-Altenglische dichtungen des ms. Harl, 2253. Boeddeker, Karl, ed. 1846- Britis...

des Reimes finden wir hier die blosse Assonanz. In þin oune house. Monimon syngeþ When he hom bringeþ Is ȝonge wyf: Wyste whet he broȝte, wyste ist kontrahirt aus " wyste he " . — whet, ms. wet. Wepen he

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

dale This wydwe / of which I telle yow my tale Syn thilke day / that she was last a wyf/ [ Painting of the Nun ' s Priest ] In pacience / ladde a ful symple lyf/ ffor litel

• Mandeville's travels : the Egerton version / from the edition by George F. Warner. Warner, George F. (George Frederic), Sir, 1845-1936. Mandeville,...

schall vnderstand þat Loth was Aram son, þe whilk Aram was Abraham broþer; and Sara , Abraham wyf, and Melcha , Nachor wyf, ware Loth systers. Sara what tyme þat scho bare Ysaach was fourscore ȝere alde and ten. Abraham

• Mandeville's travels : the Egerton version / from the edition by George F. Warner. Warner, George F. (George Frederic), Sir, 1845-1936. Mandeville,...

þat tyme trist on hir. And, if þe wyf dye before hir husband, he schall noȝt be brynt with hir agayne his will; bot, if him list, he may take him anoþer wyf. In þat cuntree also growez gude wynes;

• Mandeville's travels : the Egerton version / from the edition by George F. Warner. Warner, George F. (George Frederic), Sir, 1845-1936. Mandeville,...

es of euill condiciouns, for þe fader etez þe son and þe son þe fader, þe husband his wyf and þe wyf hir husband. For, if it fall þat a mannes fader be seke, þe sonne gase to þe preste

• The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark. Godstow nunnery.The englis...

marc of silver until he get land ' (to that value). ; Also Robert , erel of leycester & hys wyf Amice , Countesse, lx. shillings in land in hals; Also Hugo of tywe, ix. shillings in Oxenford ; Also

• Mandeville's travels : the Egerton version / from the edition by George F. Warner. Warner, George F. (George Frederic), Sir, 1845-1936. Mandeville,...

þer sum of þaire kirkes standand. In þat citee dwelled sum tyme Abraham þe patriarke. Þis citee founded Bersabee þe wyf of Vry, and called it after hir self Bersabee. In þat citee on the whiche [ sc . Bathsheba

• Mandeville's travels : the Cotton version / from the edition by Paul Hamelius. Hamelius, Paul, 1868-1922. Mandeville, John, Sir. British Library. M...

vale of Ebron þat dureth nygh to Ierusalem . There the Aungell commaunded Adam þat he scholde duelle with his wyf Eue , Of the whiche he gatt Seth , of whiche tribe þat is to seye kynrede Ihesu crist

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

Fulfyllyd of honoures and of worþinesse And stronge of ffrendes and of grete rychesse A douȝtyr/ he hade by hys wyf/ And neuere hade he mo in alle hys lyf· ffayre was þis mayde in excellent beute A-bouen euery wyȝt/

• 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...

Fulfild of honours and of worþines And strong of frendes and of gret riches A doughter he hadde by his wyf And neuer ne hadde he mo in al his lyf Fair was þis mayde in excellent beaute Aboue euery

• The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark. Godstow nunnery.The englis...

Amye , Countesse, his wyf, and with the graunte of hym, ij. marke by yere, one in Brakley and another in farnyngho; Of the yifte of Raynold , the Erle s sone, and of Emelyne his wyf, and his heires,

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

[375 ] ¶ Eke / whan he vseth his wyf. with-outen souereyn desir of engendrure to the honour of god / or for the entente / to yelde to his wyf the dette of his body [376 ] ¶ Eke

• Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction,...

in reysoun hatz rengned and ryȝtwys ben ever: Þou schal enter þis ark wyth þyn aþel barnez And þy wedded wyf; with þe þou take Þe makez of þy myry sunez; þis meyny of aȝte I schal save of monnez

• Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction,...

also my lorde. ' For soþely, as says þe wryt, he wern of sadde elde, Boþe þe wyȝe and his wyf, such werk watz hem fayled; Fro mony a brod day byfore ho barayn ay b[e ] ne, MS. by

• Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction,...

þo þat byden wer [s ] o biten with þe bale hunger MS. fo, as M. notes . Þat on wyf hade ben worþe þe welgest fourr e. Nabizardan noȝt forþy nolde not spare, Bot bede al to þe bronde

• Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction, notes, and glossary by Robert J. Menner.Purity, a Middle English poem, ed. with introduction,...

Þus in pryde and olipraunce his empyre he haldes, In lust and in lecherye, and loþelych werkkes; And hade a wyf for to welde, a worþelych quene, And mony a lemman, never þe later, þat ladis wer called. In þe

• Select English works of John Wyclif; edited from original mss. by Thomas Arnold. Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.Select English works of John Wyclif; edite...

ten thousand besantis, and whan he hadde not to paye of, þe lord bad he shulde be soold, hi s wyf and his children and al þat he hadde, and þat þat he ouȝt þe lord shulde be algatis paid.