Yyf he ys aboute to tempte þe. — Page 374.
Yn alle aloghenesse he bereþ þe bel. — Page 135.
Y brast on lagheter þere y stode. — Page 288;
Yyf þou be come of hyghe blode. — Page 97.
Wulde[1] Gode þat many swyche wommen wore! — Page 331.
Lorde![2] what shal swych men seye? — Page 137.
Yn Londun toune fyl swyche a chek. — Page 86.
He sette hym by hym, syde be syde. — Page 244.
Þe body, whyl hyt on bere lye,
A day or two ys holde yn prys. — Page 195.
Þank hym noþer yn wele no wo. — Page 160.
Þou mayst þan sykerly go þy weye. — Page 346.
Comyþ alle home, and havyþ doun.[3] — Page 31.
Hyghely shal he go alone
To the devyl, body and bone.[4] — Page 169.
Ne slepte onely a lepy wynke. — Page 283.
Ande Jumna was wonte wyþ here to wone. — Page 330.
Every man shulde have a fore þoʓt. — Page 334.
And gnoghe hyt ynwarde al to pecys. — Page 114.
Fro wykkede to wers y do hem falle. — Page 392.
And to þe ded was as trew as steyl. — Page 75.
Þat gadren pens[5] un to an hepe. — Page 190.
Yyf þey come not[6] also þurghe þoghte. — Page 15.
Þey myghte no more be broghte a sondre. — Page 277.
Þat tyme hyt happede for to be. — Page 199.
For some when þey yn age are come. — Page 54.
Y trowe God shewede þys merveyle. — Page 82.
To do a man to deþ þarfore. — Page 189.
- ↑ This wulde (our would) replaced the old wolde, as in East Anglia.
- ↑ The original story has Deu! the French invocation. We have stuck to Lord ever since, as an Interjection; Pepys was fond of it.
- ↑ Hence the ‘ha done, do!’ common among our lower orders.
- ↑ Moore, in one of his best squibs, talks of Wellington in Spain, and proposes to ‘ship off the Ministry, body and bones, to him.’
- ↑ This would of old have been peningas.
- ↑ This would have been noht or nout earlier. Our author writes
nat or not for non, and noghte for nihil. Here once more we get two
different forms from one old word.
