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But ‘sooth pley quaad pley,’ as the Flemyng seith.

The Canterbury Tales 2006

What seith she now, what dooth this queene of Love,

The Canterbury Tales 2006

For oure Boke seith, ‘al that is writen, is writen for oure doctrine,’ and that is myn entente.

The Canterbury Tales 2006

Þet we clepie to him þet ha us helpe. and he hit wille do bleþeliche. yef we him bisecheth merci mid good i {} wille al {} so him seluen seith bi þe holi writes.

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

Wherof euery man seith that the confession of the mouthe is allwayes necessarie/and that it is required of euery one of vs. The notable examples also of the excellent seruauntes of Godd cõtayned in the scriptures do teache the same.

A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger Peter Martyr

And he which denieth that a man is defiled by humayn ceremonies/he seith nothing at all.

A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger Peter Martyr

'Soloman in hys paraboles seith that a glad spirit maket a flowryng age.

Introduction to the Compleat Angler Andrew Lang 1878

The clarke seith, 'nature is content and saciate 220

Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867

I can't tell you how much I'd love to read a Welsh account of Boudica's sack of Rome; in its absence, this will do nicely, and the first line of the text gave me a thrill of recognition: "Amathaon uab Don a oed arglwyd ar y seith cantref Dyuet ..."

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Ac þere {} fore seith þet godspel þet hedden i {} be idel {;} þo þet hi nedden bi {} leued ane god {} almichti. ne him louie ne hi {m} serui.

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