After this came the regular assay of wines, during which it was easy to fancy the master of the house a dealer, for he usually sat either sucking a syphon or flourishing a cork-screw.

I would assay with that which in me is To builde, with levell of my loftie style, That which no hands can evermore compyle.

And during the time that Sir Lamorack was at Tintagel there were several joustings held in his honor, and in all these assays at arms Sir Lamorack himself took part and overthrew everyone who came against him, so that he approved himself to be so wonderful a champion that all men who beheld his performance exclaimed with astonishment at his prowess.

Ile have the best Phisitians here in Meath Assay by art to cure that maladie.

But when the King heard this he repented it much, and said unto Sir Percivale, that he should assay for his love.

Why should Mizzou have had the Crazy Horse assayed without saying anything about it to him?