"Brere" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... played He sy[gh]e er swey i{n} asent swete men tweyne; 788 [Sidenote: Beardless chins they had, and hair like raw silk.] Bolde burne[gh] wer ay boe w{i}t{h} berdles chy{n}ne[gh], Royl rollande fax to raw sylk lyke, Of ble as e brere flo{ur} where-so e bare scheweed, Ful clene wat[gh] e cou{n}tenau{n}ce of her cler y[gh]en; 792 [Sidenote: [Fol. 68a.]] [Sidenote: Beautifully white were their weeds.] Wlonk whit wat[gh] her wede & wel hit hem semed. ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... January hath fast in arms y-take His freshe May, his paradise, his make.* *mate He lulled her, he kissed her full oft; With thicke bristles of his beard unsoft, Like to the skin of houndfish,* sharp as brere** *dogfish **briar (For he was shav'n all new in his mannere), He rubbed her upon her tender face, And saide thus; "Alas! I must trespace To you, my spouse, and you greatly offend, Ere time come that I will down descend. But natheless consider this," quoth he, "There ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer |
