syght

• “The fourth is if the fysshe be frayde with the syght of a man.”

  Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking!

• “For thinges passed out of longe tyme from a mannes mynde or from his syght, turnen sone into forzetynge: Because that mynde of man ne may not ben comprehended ne witheholden, for the freeltee of mankynde.”

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

• “From his fyrst werynge/his syght shal not mynysshe”

  The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers

• “It was a hevy syght to se bryght swordes on basnites lyght.”

  Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series

• “Thou traitour I say of thy contrei, darest thou come into oure syght?”

  A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes

• “And also beware to mayntene or botrace suthe lyes whiche is abhomynable in the syght of god.”

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

• “Certaynly sayth the sayd saynt Ierom/[the] pryncypall desyre is of suche wymen [that] men sholde fest theyr eyen in [the] faces of them by the prouocacõn & syght of theyr precyous arraye.”

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

• “¶ Caste thy syght downwarde/and shewe mekenesse/bothe in thy herte and body.”

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

• “¶ From his gloryous syght thus he vs estrau {n} geth”

  The Assemble of Goddes

• “¶ There was the fyrst syght {that} euer I them saw”

  The Assemble of Goddes

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