O Clyo lady moost facundyous O ravysshynge delyte of eloquence O gylted goddes gaye and gloryous Enspyred with the percynge influence Of delycate hevenly complacence Within my mouth let dystyll of thy shoures And forge my tonge to gladde myn auditoures.

And thei that speken wel, han a large tonge, and han 5 toos upon a Fote.

Theise serpentes slen men, and thei eten hem wepynge: and whan thei eten, thei meven the over Jowe, and noughte the nether Jowe; and thei have no Tonge.

And as he is a courtier beene excusd Thoughe it were false; for he whose tonge and harte Runne one selfe course shall seldome find the way To a preferment.

He whose harte and tonge Runne one selfe course shall seldome fynde the way To a preferrment.

As much As you of charytie if your tonge bee A faithfull servant to your mynde.

A very curyous rynge, a dayntye ringe Hydd underneathe her tonge.

Onlye your maiestye, From strengthe of whose imbrace not anye tonge Had power to drawe her.

Envyes tonges Are sharpe and manye, and they ever cleave Most to'th oppressed, oft to'th inocent.

Good darringe tonge, be not toe desperatt.

Here in my safe possessyon, thys is it, Which at her deathe, lodgd underneathe her tonge, I found by carefull searche.

My father was smoking his doodeen in the chimney corner, my mother was overseeing the girls that were tonging the flax, and I and the other gossoons were doing nothing at all, only roasting praties in the ashes.

"Thah mi tonge were made of stel, Ant min herte yzote of bras, The goodness myht y never telle, That with kyng Edward was: Kyng, as thou art cleped conquerour, In uch battaille thou hadest prys; God bringe thi soule to the honour, That ever wes ant ever ys.

," in the Prologue of Lydgate's Translation of Boccaccio's Fall of Princes, is a misprint: corrige "In youth he made a translation Of a boke, which called is Troyle, In Lumbardes tonge, as men may rede and se, And in our vulgar, long or that he deyde, Gave it the name of Troylous and Cres-eyde.

Tonge in Phil.