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Mo ben there not of solempne festes, but zif he marye ony of his children. Now undirstondethe, that at every of theise festes, he hathe gret multytude of peple, well ordeyned and wel arrayed, be thousandes, be hundredes and be tenthes. And every man knowethe wel, what servyse he schalle do. And every man zevethe so gode hede and so gode attendance to his servyse, that no man fyndethe no defaute.
FABRICIO. You speake against all reason, to saie that a wise man blameth order, he maie bee well thought wise, and be nothyng so. COSIMO. The naughtie profe, which it hath alwaies, maketh us to have soche opinion thereof. FABRICIO. Take hede it be not your fault, and not the kepyng of order, the whiche you shall knowe, before this reasonyng be ended.
There were about nine or ten, and the man from Hede had a poor old horse, so there was very little hope of his escaping. "When the man heard the wolves howl and saw how many there were after him, he lost his head, and it did not occur to him that he ought to dump his casks and jugs out of the sledge, to lighten the load.
The Dorekepers had the office of our Common Sexteine, to open the churche dores, to take hede to the churche, and to shutte the dores. And had therfore a keie giuen vnto theim, when thei ware admitted to this ordre. The Reader, in signe and token of libertie to reade the Bible, and holie stories, had a greate booke giuen, him.
She gadereth floures, party white and rede, To make a subtil garland for hir hede, And as an angel hevenly she song." In this quotation from Chaucer I have not changed the old spelling into modern as I did in the chapter on Chaucer, so that you may see the difference between the two styles more clearly.
"'You might stay at home once in awhile, you old hag! he growled. 'Now both my horse and I will come to grief on your account. "The old woman did not say a word, but the man from Hede was in no mood to spare her. "'The horse has already tramped thirty-five miles to-day, and the load hasn't lightened any since you got up on it! he grumbled, 'so that you must understand he'll soon be exhausted.
Nor let no man esteme little this remembraunce, for as moche as many capitaines, whom havyng taken no hede thereof, have been ruinated, and by themselves have been disordered, and broken.
If any of these falle sicke, he wandereth forthe into some deserte place, and ther laieth him downe: no manne taking hede either to his lieng or to his dienge. All these Yndians that I nowe haue spoken of, in quenching of natures heate, vse their women as secretly as beastes do their females.
It's only my stupidity that hinders me from finding the way. "Again he started to push the vat, then paused once more and burst out laughing. "The old woman was alarmed and wondered if he had gone mad, but the man from Hede was laughing at himself because he had been so stupid all the while. It was the simplest thing in the world to save all three of them.
Then the room grew very still and peaceful and Jean's heart did too and through the silence there came a voice so tender and loving so gentle that the auntie's eyes were full of tears, and Jean wanted to listen forever, and the voice said, "Jean, inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye did it unto ME." By Aunt Hede, in "Kindergarten Magazine"
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