reyn

• “Al night, 'quod he, ` hath reyn so do me wake, 1560”

  Troilus and Criseyde

• “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

• “Wel wiste he, by the droghte, and by the reyn, 595”

  The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Lines 401-600

• “I jist fin 'mysel' like a horse wi 'a reyn brocken, gaein' by mysel 'throu' the air this gait.”

  Sir Gibbie

• “This same yere [113] fro the begynnyng of April into Halwemasse was so gret abundance of reyn, where thorugh nought only hey was distroied, but also moche corn, for it reyned almost every other day more or lasse.”

  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

• “Tak the Venisoun that ys rest and do yt in cold water and after mak an hole in the herthe and lat yt be thereyn thre dayes and thre nyzt and after tak yt up and spot yt wel wyth gret salt of peite [2] there were the restyng ys and after lat yt hange in reyn water al nyzt or more.”

  The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390

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• “Also this same yere on a Fryday, that is for to seye the xij day of August, aboughte iij of the belle at afternoon, there fill a sodeyn thondyr clap with a gret reyn and a lyghtnynge, the whiche lyghtnynge entred in at a wynde and distroyd moche hey which was stuffed in a gret hous at the Sterre in Bredstrete; and the remenaunt of the hey was cast out and had in to Chepe, the quantyte of”

  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

• “1398: A Drench for sur-reyn'd Iades, their Barly broth,”

  Henry V (1623 First Folio Edition)

• “Agayns God it is, whan a man gruccheth agayn the peynes of helle, or agayns poverte, or los of catel or agayn reyn or tempest; or elles gruccheth that shrewes han prosperitee, or elles for that goode men han adversitee. ”

  The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521

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