resoun

For the comownes, upon festyfulle dayes, whan thei scholden gon to chirche to serve God, than gon thei to tavernes, and ben there in glotony, alle the day and alle nyghte, and eten and drynken, as bestes that have no resoun, and wite not whan thei have y now.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

But sothe it is, that this confessioun was first and kyndely: but seynt Petre the apostle, and thei that camen aftre him, han ordeynd to make here confessioun to man; and be gode resoun: for thei perceyveden wel, that no syknesse was curable, by gode medycyne to leye therto, but zif men knewen the nature of the maladye.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And for that skylle, God hath zoven it more gret vertue in the world: therfore it is gode resoun, as thei seyn, to don it worschipe and reverence.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

For zif a man myghte falle fro the erthe unto the firmament: be grettere resoun, the erthe and the see, that ben so grete and so hevy, scholde fallen to the firmament: but that may not be: and therfore seithe oure Lord God,

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And sithe that foules, that han no kyndely wytt ne resoun, gon thidre to seche that gloriouse virgyne; wel more oughten men than to seche hire and to worschipen hire.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

For men seyn there, that it is resoun, that sche make him companye in that other world, as sche did in this.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

I knowe not the resoun, whi it is; but God knowethe.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

For zif the wormes of the erthe eten hem, the soule scholde suffre gret peyne, as thei seyn; and namely, whan the flesche is tendre and megre, thanne seyn here frendes, that thei don gret synne, to leten hem have so long langure, to suffre so moche peyne, with oute resoun.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And zif his wif have no child, thei brenne hire with him; and seyn, that it is resoun, that sche make him companye in that other world, as sche did in this.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

But sothe it is, that this confessioun was first and kyndely: but seynt Petre the apostle, and thei that camen aftre him, han ordeynd to make here confessioun to man; and be gode resoun: for thei perceyveden wel, that no syknesse was curable, by gode medycyne to leye therto, but zif men knewen the nature of the maladye.

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