• The Nativity

maydyn, blyssid thu be, Godes Sone is born of thee; The Fader of hevene worchepe we: Regina celi, letare! Heyl wyf, heyl maydyn, heyl brytgh of ble, Heyl dowter, heyl suster, heyl ful of peté, Heyl chosyn to tho personys

• The Nativity

maydyn, blyssid thu be, Godes Sone is born of thee; The Fader of hevene worchepe we: Regina celi, letare! Heyl wyf, heyl maydyn, heyl brytgh of ble, Heyl dowter, heyl suster, heyl ful of peté, Heyl chosyn to tho personys

• The Nativity

maydyn, blyssid thu be, Godes Sone is born of thee; The Fader of hevene worchepe we: Regina celi, letare! Heyl wyf, heyl maydyn, heyl brytgh of ble, Heyl dowter, heyl suster, heyl ful of peté, Heyl chosyn to tho personys

• The Nativity

maydyn, blyssid thu be, Godes Sone is born of thee; The Fader of hevene worchepe we: Regina celi, letare! Heyl wyf, heyl maydyn, heyl brytgh of ble, Heyl dowter, heyl suster, heyl ful of peté, Heyl chosyn to tho personys

• Emar

The Emperour of gentyll blode Was a curteys lorde and a gode, In all maner of thynge. Aftur, when hys wyf was dede, And ledde hys lyf yn weddewede, And myche loved playnge. Sone aftur, yn a whyle, The ryche

• The Nativity

maydyn, blyssid thu be, Godes Sone is born of thee; The Fader of hevene worchepe we: Regina celi, letare! Heyl wyf, heyl maydyn, heyl brytgh of ble, Heyl dowter, heyl suster, heyl ful of peté, Heyl chosyn to tho personys

• The Nativity

maydyn, blyssid thu be, Godes Sone is born of thee; The Fader of hevene worchepe we: Regina celi, letare! Heyl wyf, heyl maydyn, heyl brytgh of ble, Heyl dowter, heyl suster, heyl ful of peté, Heyl chosyn to tho personys

• The Nativity

maydyn, blyssid thu be, Godes Sone is born of thee; The Fader of hevene worchepe we: Regina celi, letare! Heyl wyf, heyl maydyn, heyl brytgh of ble, Heyl dowter, heyl suster, heyl ful of peté, Heyl chosyn to tho personys

• The Nativity

maydyn, blyssid thu be, Godes Sone is born of thee; The Fader of hevene worchepe we: Regina celi, letare! Heyl wyf, heyl maydyn, heyl brytgh of ble, Heyl dowter, heyl suster, heyl ful of peté, Heyl chosyn to tho personys

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 5

She myght in bewté so be set aforn Nature hir gaf swiche a prerogatyf A clene mayde, sothly, and no wyf, Flouryng bothe in fairnes and bounté. Whom Alphenor whan he dide se, Albe he was fetrid in prisoun, For

• The Nativity

maydyn, blyssid thu be, Godes Sone is born of thee; The Fader of hevene worchepe we: Regina celi, letare! Heyl wyf, heyl maydyn, heyl brytgh of ble, Heyl dowter, heyl suster, heyl ful of peté, Heyl chosyn to tho personys

• The Quare of Jelusy: Introduction

as female). 10 Compare Emelye's prayer to Diana in which she protests that she wants to be neither "love ne wyf," adding, "I am, thow woost, yet of thy compaignye, / A mayde" (CT I[A]2307-08). 11 McKim, p. 37. 12

• The N-Town Plays: Play 8, Joachim and Anne

in the gynnynge — The concepcyon of all swych, it is ful mervelyous. And in the lykewyse, Anne, thi blyssd wyf, Sche shal bere a childe shal hygth Mary Which shal be blyssyd in her body and have joys fyff.

• The Gast of Gy

Be reson, that thou ert noght kynd, That thou makes slyke sklaunder and stryf Both to thiself and to thi wyf; For, whils that Gy was lyfand man, Ryghtwis was he halden than And trew in fayth, of noble fame

• Lydgate, The Legend of St. George

And with al this we fynden in his lyf, Thorugh Goddes might and gracyous purveyaunce That Alexandrea of Dacyan the wyf Forsooke ydolles and al hir fals creaunce And became Crysten with humble attendaunce, Suffred deethe, baptysed in hir bloode

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Prologue

Copyright Information for this edition Now for the love of Vulcanus wyf Wyth whom whylom thou wer at meschef take, So helpe me now, only for hyr sake, And for the love of thy Bellona That wyth the dwellyth byyownd

• Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 4

But in hymsilfe gan for to compasse Ful prudently what it myghte mene That Achilles wolde have Polycene Unto his wyf, ay wondring mor and more; And at the last, sighynge wonder sore, He discloseth the conceit of his herte

• The Wright's Chaste Wife

of putrie, and constreyne wommen to yelden hem a certeyn rente of hire bodily puterie, ye, somtyme of his owene wyf or his child, as doon thise bawdes? (X[I]886) Putours are pimps, procurers, fornicators (MED). 68 to layne. F glosses

• Second Book of Kings (2 Samuel)

And in this meyntyme that I tell, Kyng David rewled hym all unryght. In awowtry fowle he fell with Ury wyf, that was his knyght. Swylke medyturs was mad omell that with hym was scho all nyght. Dame Barsabé scho

• Poems in Celebration of Mary

ygladed Symeon Wyth thyne swete offrynge In the temple atte auter-ston Wyth Jhesus hevene kynge. Thou ert Judith, that fayre wyf, Thou hast abated al that stryf; Olofernes wyth hys knyf Hys hevede thou hym bynome. Thou hest ysaved here