For these said, "There shall certes be greater credit to be had with Sir Palamydes than against him," and so they joined them with his party.

Certe vix credam, et bona fide fateare Aratine, te no amasse adeo vehementer; si enim vere amasses, nihil prius aut potius optasses, quam amatae mulieri placere.

It was said of them that a knight-champion of Cornwall was maybe a knight, but certes was no champion at all; and this was great shame to all those of Cornwall, more especially as that saying was in a great measure true.

Certes, friend B., thy Widow's tale is too horrible, spite of the lenitives of Religion, to embody in verse: I hold prose to be the appropriate expositor of such atrocities!

quoth Roger, wiping sweat from him, "yonder certes was Hob-gob!

"Certes," he said, "it is a heavy grief that you who are so comely and brave, should yet have no honour in you.