plesaunce

Example: “Made euery wight to been in swich plesaunce / That al Monday iusten they and daunce.” “every wight” = ME for “everyone” or “everybody”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence 2009

But as if this charming old-world plesaunce were quite familiar to him,

The End of Her Honeymoon Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

But this was only part of Robin's "realm of plesaunce."

Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877

[Sidenote: These Devices give great pleasure, when shown in a house.] ++These iiij. soteltees devised in towse, [210] wher þey byñ shewed in an howse, hith {e} doth {e} gret plesaunce

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

On the reverse Owyn is represented on horseback in armour: in his right hand, which is extended, he holds a sword; and with his left, his shield charged with four lions rampant: a drapery, probably a _kerchief de plesaunce_, or handkerchief won at a tournament, pendent from the right wrist.

Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth James Endell Tyler 1820

Robin Hood existeth as seurelye as green hattes, stylishe sworde-pleye, and roguish good lookes existen, and ye know that thei abounden and yive to yower lyf yts gretest plesaunce and joie.

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog 2010

That stode so sure in righttuU gouernaunce For common \\\ale, to God his hie plesaunce '.

The chronicle of Iohn Hardyng : containing an account of public transactions from the earliest period of English history to the beginning of the reign of King Edward the Fourth, together with the continuation by Richard Grafton, to the thirty fourth year of King Henry the Eighth : the former part collated with two manuscripts of the author's own time, the last, with Grafton's duplicate edition : to which are added a biographical and literary preface, and an index by Henry Ellis Ellis, Henry, Sir, 1777-1869 1812

In a ryver {e} of watur stand {e}/wrapped in wed {es} in a werysom wyse, hauyng {e} no deynteith {e} to daunce: 752 þe thrid age of mañ by liklynes; hervist we clepe hym̅, full {e} of werynes ȝet þer folowyth {e} mo þat we must dres, regard {es} riche þ {a} t ar full {e} of plesaunce.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

To your {e} mastir looke ye geue diligent attendaunce; be curteyse, glad of cher {e}, & light of er {e} in eu {er} y semblaunce, 868 eu {er} waytyng {e} to þat thyng {e} þat may do hym plesaunce: to these p {ro} purtees if ye will apply, it may yow well {e} avaunce.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

London and the peple of the said schires so endited as before is seid, were full hevy and sorwefull; and thanne the citizeins of London for plesaunce of the kyng thorugh counseill and helpe of Roger Walden the erchebysshop of Caunterbury, and of Braybroke, &c. [

A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum Anonymous 1823