wyves

June 10, 2009 at 12:10 am wyves, sacks, cats, kits, hao menny were going to St. Ives?

Video: The Cat-erpillar - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

Merry Merrie marry mary merry Chistmas Ebberybuddy–Kits, kats, sax an wyves!

Invizibl - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

I haue herd from dyvers graue and reuerend menn, who oughte to know, [sith that ther wyves hadd tolde them,] that manie of these demoiselles do wear verie longe bootes, but howe long they may bee I knowe not.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Ye, and they looke so narowly uppon theyre proufittes, that the poore wyves must be countable to thym of every tenth eg, or elles she gettith not her rytes at ester, shal be taken as an heretike ....

The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

Ye, and they looke so narowly uppon theyre proufittes, that the poore wyves must be countable to thym of every tenth eg, or elles she gettith not her rytes at ester, shal be taken as an heretike ....

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

Compare Chaucer's use of it: 'Men seyn that thre thynges dryven a man out of his hous, -- that is to seyn, smoke, droppyng of reyn and wikked wyves.'

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

Written wyth a cole by your tender loving father, who in his pore prayers forgetteth none of you all, nor your babes, nor your nurses, nor your good husbandes, nor your good husbandes shrewde wyves, nor your fathers shrewde wyfe neither, nor our other frendes.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

Henry VII., wyves of the said Sir Richard, whyche decessed the 20th day of

Bell’s Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See 1906

For when people knowe howe to live, and howe to maynetayne and feede their wyves and children, they will not abstaine from mariage as nowe they doe.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

The horsen priest hath lift the pot, in some of these ale wyves chayres

Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575