herde

If "his herde were the king's deer," "his treasure was the earl's purse"; and still oftener the purse of the foreign churchman, Norman or Italian, who had expelled the outlaw's English cousins from their convents; shamefully scourged and cruelly imprisoned them, as the blessed Archbishop Lanfranc did at

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847

And there is the awtier, where oure Lady herde the aungelles synge messe.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And treuly, we fond it more noble and more excellent and ricchere and more marveyllous, than ever we herde speke offe; in so moche, that we wolde never han leved it, had wee not seen it.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And the cause was, for we hadden gret lust to see his noblelesse and the estat of his court and alle his governance, to write zif it were suche, as wee herde seye, that it was.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And treuly, we fond it more noble and more excellent and ricchere and more marveyllous, than ever we herde speke offe; in so moche, that we wolde never han leved it, had wee not seen it.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Effrata_; that is to seye, _Lo, we herde him in Effrata_.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And there is the awtier, where oure Lady herde the aungelles synge messe.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Ynde, where ben mo than 5000 yles: and so longe he wente be see and lond, and so enviround the world be many seysons, that he fond an yle, where he herde speke his owne langage, callynge an oxen in the plowghe, suche wordes as men speken to bestes in his owne contree: whereof he hadde gret mervayle: for he knewe not how it myghte be.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And the cause was, for we hadden gret lust to see his noblelesse and the estat of his court and alle his governance, to write zif it were suche, as wee herde seye, that it was.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Wéé bie ye idel {;} and hie answerden {;} and seyde. lord {;} for we ` ne´ fonden te dai þat us herde.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall