fytte

The first "fytte" is occupied in narrating his sojourn; [57] while the other two set forth the predictions with which the queen supplied him.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

A curious point about the first "fytte" is that it opens (ll. 1-18) in the first person; at line 41 Thomas is mentioned, and the poem continues in the third person to the end, with a single and sudden change to the first in line 208.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

It is certain that Byron had begun the fourth canto, and written some thirty or more stanzas, before Hobhouse rejoined him at his villa of La Mira on the banks of the Brenta, in July, 1817; and it would seem that, although he had begun by saying "that he was too short a time in Rome for it," he speedily overcame his misgivings, and accomplished, as he believed, the last "fytte" of his pilgrimage.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

"fytte" (which alone concerns us here, and indeed appears to be separate in origin from the other two) refers to an "older story."

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

This rendered him, according to Bedingfield, "wonderouselye fytte to dooe theys enterp [ri] ses yff he be disposed thereto."

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Here, gentles, ends the foremost fytte of the Lay of the Bloody Vest.

The Talisman 2008

If it ware a boye, they eyther brake the right arme assone as it was borne, that it mighte neuer be fytte for the warres, or slue it, or sente it oute of the country.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

So much is told in the first fytte, which corresponds roughly to our ballad.

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

"Now, if I choose, will begin the first fytte of John Bulmer's adventures," he meditated, leisurely.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

Here, gentles, ends the foremost fytte of the Lay of the Bloody Vest.

The Talisman 1894