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David Symmer and Adame Fullartoun, baillies of the samyne, causit ane cordinare servant, callit James Gillion takin of befoir, for playing in Edr. with Robene Hude, to wnderly the law, and put him to the knawlege of ane assyize qlk yaij haid electit of yair favoraris, quha with schort deliberatioun condemnit him to be hangit for ye said cryme.

The Abbot 2008

In 1315, surgical pioneer Lanfranc used the word in Science of Cirugie when writing about his anatomical discoveries, ‘In wymmen [the] neck of [the] bladdre is schort, & is maad fast to the cunte’.

C.U.Next Tuesday - :: gia’s blog :: 2004

But whoso wil go to Babyloyne be another weye, more schort from the contrees of the west, that I have reherced before; or from other contrees next fro hem; than men gon by Fraunce, be

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And the Paynemes seyn, that no Cristene man may not longe duelle, ne enduren with the lif, in that cytee: but dyen with in schort tyme; and no man knowethe not the cause.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And there with alle thei ben so proude, that thei knowen not how to ben clothed; now long, now schort, now streyt, now large, now swerded, now daggered, and in alle manere gyses.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And this wey is most schort, for to go streyghte unto Babiloyne.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And this wey is most schort, for to go streyghte unto Babiloyne.

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

But whoso wil go to Babyloyne be another weye, more schort from the contrees of the west, that I have reherced before; or from other contrees next fro hem; than men gon by Fraunce, be

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

And the Paynemes seyn, that no Cristene man may not longe duelle, ne enduren with the lif, in that cytee: but dyen with in schort tyme; and no man knowethe not the cause.

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

And there with alle thei ben so proude, that thei knowen not how to ben clothed; now long, now schort, now streyt, now large, now swerded, now daggered, and in alle manere gyses.

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