feble

And zee schulle undirstonde, that before the Chirche of the Sepulcre, is the cytee more feble than in ony othere partie, for the grete playn that is betwene the chirche and the cytee.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And zee schulle undirstonde, that before the Chirche of the Sepulcre, is the cytee more feble than in ony othere partie, for the grete playn that is betwene the chirche and the cytee.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Such as cã not hãdsomly vse them selues in that mery conceyted slendernes of wordes, fall into a drye and feble kynde of oracion.

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

True it is, that for the long absence of my husbande (not able to resist the prickes of the fleshe, and the force of loue) whiche be of suche great effect, that they haue many times past and yet daily do vanquishe and ouercome, not only feble and weake women, but also the strongest men.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

+ Þe rapes þe weren icast to him {;} bitacneð þe herdnesse of scrifte. for nis nan of us se strong þe hefde idon þre hef [ed] sunnen þ̵ his licome nere swiðe feble er he hefde idreȝen þet  {70} sc {ri} ft þe þer to bilimpeð.

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

By litle and litle he consumed, as sleting snow against the warme Sone: wherwith he came to suche feble state, that he could neither slepe, nor eate, and was compelled to kepe his bedde, in suche wyse, that with superfluous paine he was brought to marueylous debilitie.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Syr Arthur was passynge feble, and wende veryly to have dyed, but for al that he made countenaunce as though he myghte endure, and helde Accolon as shorte as he myght.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

It chaunced at that very instant, that the Queene Stratonica entred into the chamber, whom so sone as the yonge man sawe comming toward him, sodainly the poulse which were weake and feble, began to reuiue through mutation of the bloud.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  {10} Ah his licome wes se swiðe feble {;} þ̵ he ne mihte noht iþolie þe herdnesse of þe rapes. þa sende me claðes ut of þes kinges huse for to bi {} winden þe rapes. þ̵ his licome þe feble wes ne sc ` e´olde noht wursien.

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

[132] So the MS.; Pepwell reads: "were feble and fayle"; and Caxton:

The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902