byrde

Doone in tyme past/made many a byrde a dawe [abyrde]

The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers Stephen Hawes

QUOTATION: Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

Quotations 1919

Thys byrde morneth sore in fowle weder, & hideth hym from the rayne vnder {the} busshes.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

¶ And what a thynge is it to be diligente in a byrde, and slowe in teachynge thy sonne?

The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

Whan a worde is nat sayd, the byrde is in the cage

The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

Then the other byrdes drewe togyder, and demannded eche other what was best to be done with this byrde that they had made vp of nought and now so dysdayneth them.

Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Brittany, Flanders, and the adjoining countries; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord, 1466 or 7-1533, tr 1812

He schall heyr the melodies melodious of the ermony of byrde: he schall se also the yong swannes and signetes folowing ther eyrours, duckes, cootes, herons, and many other fowlys with ther brodys, wyche me semyt better then all the noyse of houndes, and blastes of hornes and other gamys that fawkners or hunters can make, and yf the angler take the fyssche, hardly then ys ther no man meryer then he in his sprites. '

Introduction to the Compleat Angler Andrew Lang 1878

The Crane is a great byrde/and whan they flye, they be a greate many of them to-gyder in ordre, and a-monge the {m} they chose a kynge the whiche they obey/whan the crane sleepth, than standeth he vpon one fote w {i} t {h} his hede vnder his winges/& ther is one {tha} t kepeth the wache w {i} t {h} his hede vpryght to-wardes

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Nepa is a byrde w {i} t {h} a longe byll/& he putteth his byll in {th} e erthe for to seke the worms in the grou {n} de/and they put their bylles in {th} e erthe sometyme so depe {tha} t they can nat gete it vp agayne/& tha {n} they scratche theyr billes out agayn w {i} t {h} theyr fete.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

And as the dogge is borne to huntyng, the byrde to flyinge, the horse to runnyng, the oxe to plowynge, so man is borne to philosophy and honeste doinges: and as euery liuing thing lerneth very easly that, to the whiche he is borne, so man wyth verye lytle payne perceiueth the lernyng of vertue and honestye, to the whiche nature hath graffed certen vehemente seedes and principles: so that to the readinesse of nature, is ioyned the diligence of the teacher.

The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502