- that they
shold lede a newe lyf and newe maners/ also they wake alle the
nyght in
prayers and
orysons vnto god that he
wylle gyue hem
grace that they may...
- make melodies, and
small birds that
chirp melodies, That
slepen al the
nyght with open ye That
sleep all
night with open eyes
sleep all
night with half-open...
- Redy to
wenden on my
pilgrymage To
Caunterbury with ful
devout corage, At
nyght was come into that
hostelrye Wel nyne and
twenty in a
compaignye Of sondry...
-
bledyng day &
nyght; Lully, lulley, lully, lulley! Þe
fawcon hath born my mak away. By þat
bedis side þer
kneleth a may, & she
wepeth both
nyght & day; Lully...
- and
Seint Benedight,
Bless this hous from
every wickked wight, For the
nyghts nerye the
white pater-noster!
Where wentestow,
Seinte Petres suster?' The...
- half
cours yronne, And
smale foweles maken melodye, That
slepen al the
nyght with open yë (So
priketh hem
nature in hir corages),
Thanne longen folk...
-
fowls make melody, And the
small fowl are
making melody That
slepen al the
nyght with open eye That
sleep all the
night with open eye That
sleep away the...
- the
south pole was, we
tooke the day with the soonne, and
obserued the
nyght with the Astrolabie, and sawe
manifestly twoo
clowdes of
reasonable bygnesse...
- Reeve's Tale, (1387–1400), line 4236: "For [Aleyn] had
swonken al the
longe nyght, And seyde, 'Fare weel, Malyne,
sweete wight!'" The Monk's Tale, (1387–1400)...
- uobis," quod the ffox, "for I am
comyn to toowne." It fell
ageyns the next
nyght the fox ****e to with all his myghte, with-outen cole or candelight, whan...
