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• “And truly I have seen of paynims and Saracens that men clepe Augurs, that, when we ride in arms in divers countries upon our enemies, by the flying of fowls they would tell us the prognostications of things that fell after; and so they did full oftentimes, and proffered their heads to-wedde, but if it would fall as they said.”

  The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “And thei seye, that fornicatioun is no synne dedly, but a thing that is kyndely: and the men and women scholde not wedde but ones; and whoso weddethe oftere than ones, here children ben bastardis and geten in synne.”

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

• “And treuly I have seen of Paynemes and Sarazines, that men clepen Augurynes, that whan wee ryden in armes in dyverse contrees, upon oure enemyes, be the flyenge of foules, thei wolde telle us the prenosticaciouns of thinges that felle aftre: and so thei diden fulle often tymes, and profreden here hedes to wedde, but zif it wolde falle as thei seyden.”

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

• “For a kyng of Fraunce boughte theise relikes somtyme of the Jewes; to whom the Emperour had leyde hem to wedde, for a gret summe of sylvre.”

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

• “And zif the womman dye before the husbonde, men brennen him with hire, zif that he wole; and zif he wil not, no man constreynethe him thereto; but he may wedde another tyme with outen blame and repreef.”

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

• “To wedde under josepes hond. ðes oðere breðere sone on {} on.”

  Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts

• “And remembre [that] ye shall be professed & wedde elyke to one spouse Ihesu cryste in one wyl & vowe/whiche loue none suche syngularyte/pompe & vayne glorye.”

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

• “Spain, for the which he hath complained to us he is endangered greatly, and certain goods of his laid to wedde [pledge]; wherefore we wol that ye see that there be taken due accompts of the said John, how many days he hath stand in our said ambassiat and service, and thereupon that he be contented and agreed [have satisfaction] in the best wise as longeth unto him in this case.”

  Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth

• “Tuesday before Estre day; [118] and in the morwe after the sowdeours were arested and put into warde: and in the Estre woke the forsaid regent rood into Picardie to Tyrywe, and there the bysshop of Tyrewyn dede wedde the regent to the erles doughter of Seynt Poule; and whanne they were weddyd he com to Caleys ageyn: and the xj day of Jun, on seynt Barnabe day, were foure sowdeours of Caleys beheded; that is for to sey, John Maddeley, John Lunday, Thomas Palmere, and Thomas Talbot; and v score and x banshyd that same tyme, and before that tyme were banshyd vj score; and so on Midsomer-even after com the regent and his lady to London, that faire citee.”

  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

• “4.89.16: The restlesse ramp that thou hadst wedde.”

  "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"

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