Your adversary is the everlasting law of justice, which says, Do as you would be done by, for with what measure you mete to others, it shall be measured to you again.

And whan he is at the table, they bryngen him hys mete at every tyme, 5 and 5 to gedre.

That one precipice, whose height I can mete by inches here, Is a thousand fathoms quite.

Valiant men ye are I know, yet are ye but a poor unordered rabblement, mete for slaughter.

And thei ete no mete in all the wynter: but thei lyzn as in a drem, as don the serpentes.

"I would mete with the scalde squitterbe-booke for this geare.