Part 8 (2/2)
40 _Exan of Henry VI,--from 1461 back to 1422_
”When Neht, for his own Glorye, made and incorporate the first Realme, and subduyd it to hyovernyd by any other Rule or Lawe, but by his own Will; by which and for th' accoh he had thus , _Quia Rex dicitur a Regendo_; Whych thyng he did not, but oppressyd the People by Myght”--SIR JOHN FORTESCUE
41 _Exaate, a poetical Monk, who died in 1440_
”Our life here short of wit the great dulnes The heuy soule troubled with trauayle, And ofhauebatail With werinesinfor to feint”
JOHN LYDGATE: _Fall of Princes_, Book III, Prol
42 _Exan of Henry V,--from 1422 back to 1413_
”I wolle that the Duc of Orliance be kept stille withyn the Castil of Pontefret, with owte goyng to Robertis place, or to any other disport, it is better he lak his disport then ere disceyved Of all the remanant dothe as ye thenketh”--_Letter of_ HENRY V
43 _Exan of Henry IV,--frohty Prynce, racious Lorde,--I recommaund me to you as lowly as I kan or racious tydynges of your worshi+pful astate and welfare”--LORD GREY: _Letter to the Prince of Wales: Bucke's Classical Gram_, p 145
VI ENGLISH OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
44 _Reign of Richard II, 1400 back to 1377--Example written in 1391_ ”Lytel Lowys my sonne, I perceve well by certaine evidences thyne abylyte to lerne scyences, touching nombres and proporcions, and also well consydre I thy besye prayer in especyal to lerne the tretyse of the _astrolabye_
Than for as moche as a philosopher saithe, he wrapeth hyhtfull prayers of his frende: therefore I have given the a sufficient astrolabye for oure orizont, compowned after the latitude of Oxenforde: vpon the whiche by meditacion of this lytell tretise, I purpose to teche the a certae to this same instrument”--GEOFFREY CHAUCER: _Of the Astrolabe_
45 _Example written about 1385--to be compared with that of 1555, on p
87_
”And thus this companie of muses iblamed casten wrothly the chere dounward to the yerth, and shewing by rednesse their shame, thei passeden sorowfully the thresholde And I of whoht not knohat that woman was, of so Imperial aucthoritie, I woxe all abashed and stonied, and cast an still for to abide what she would doen afterward”--CHAUCER: _Version from Boethius: Johnson's Hist of E L_, p 29
46 _Poetical Example--probably written before 1380_
”O Socrates, thou stedfast chaht nevir be thy turmentour, Thou nevir dreddist her oppression, Ne in her chere foundin thou no favour, Thou kneele the disceipt of her colour, And that her moste worshi+p is for to lie, I knowe her eke a false dissimulour, For finally Fortune I doe defie”--CHAUCER
47 _Reign of Edward III, 1377 to 1327--Example written about 1360_
”And eke full ofte a littell skare Vpon a banke, er ret peine, If any roweth; He is not wise, who that ne troweth”--SIR JOHN GOWER
48 _Exalish traveller--written in 1356_
”And this sterre that is toward the Northe, that wee clepen the lode sterre, ne apperethe not to hem For whiche cause, men may wel perceyve, that the lond and the see ben of rownde schapp and forme For the partie of the firmament schewethe in o contree, that schewethe not in another contree And men may well preven be experience and sotyle coes be schippes, that wolde go to serchen the world, o be schippe all aboute the world, and aboven and benethen The whiche thing I prove thus, aftre that I have seynBe the whiche I seye zou certeynly, that men may envirowne alle the erthe of alle the world, as wel undre as aboven, and turnen azen to his contree, that hadde coe and conduyt: and alle weyes he scholde fynde men, londes, and yles, als wel as in this contree”--SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE; _Johnson's Hist of E L_, p 26
49 _Exahman,” 1350_
”In the somer season, When hot was the Sun, I shope me into shroubs, As I a shepe were; In habit as an harmet, Vnholy of werkes, Went wyde in this world Wonders to heare”
50 _Description of a shi+p--referred to the reign of Edward II: 1327-1307_
”Such ne saw they never none, For it was so gay begone, Every nayle with gold ygrave, Of pure gold was his sklave, Her mast was of ivory, Of samyte her sayle wytly, Her robes all of whyte sylk, As whyte as ever was ony mylke
The noble shi+p ithout With clothes of gold spread about And her loft and her wyndlace All of gold depaynted was”