hyghe

• “Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible across a range of tones and subjects, but my favourite passages have always been the evocations of bleak northern weather and terrain that permeate the poem: "The werbelande wynde wapped fro the hyghe/And drof uch dale ful of dryftes ful grete" adapted by Simon Armitage as "then a whip-cracking wind comes whistling between hills/Driving snow into deepening drifts in the dales".”

  Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible

• “And every gerner hathe a zate, for to entre with inne, a lytille hyghe fro the erthe.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “In this contree ben righte hyghe hilles, toward the ende of Macedonye.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Beware also of vayne glory/lyftynge vp your vysage & voyce on hyghe as wymen done in the worlde.”

  A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men

• “¶ Beware of hyghe speche & clamorous/and see that thy wordes be fewe well sette & resonable.”

  A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men

• “¶ Beware to be Inquysytyf/or to muse on hyghe maters and subtyll.”

  A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men

• “Receyue mercyfull Ihesu this hyghe & holy sacryfyce to the comfort of all [that] ben on lyue & deed/& wouchesauf this daye [that] it be to vs & to all them a synguler refresshynge & feest/that we so releued [with] this brede of lyue & lambe Inmaculate/borne of the blessyd virgyn Mary may Ioye in thy laude & glorye eternally.”

  A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men

• “¶ And for as moche that by the holy ordynaunce the consecracyon therof & offerynge vp to thy hyghe mageste for the quycke and deed oonly belongeth to the order of preesthode.”

  A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men

• “Botte soare on hyghe, & yn the sonne-bemes sheene;”

  The Rowley Poems

• “Wythe pillars large, and spyre full hyghe and rounde.”

  The Rowley Poems

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