'Her gery Iaces,' their changeful ribands; Richard Redeless, iii. 130.
'Now gerysshe, glad and anoon aftir wrothe.'
Lydgate, Minor Poems, p. 245.
'In gerysshe Marche'; id. 243. 'Gerysshe, wylde or lyght-headed'; Palsgrave's Dict., p. 313. In Skelton's poem of Ware the Hauke (ed. Dyce, i. 157) we find:—
'His seconde hawke wexid gery,
And was with flying wery.'
Dyce, in his note upon the word, quotes two passages from Lydgate's Fall of Princes, B. iii. c. 10. leaf 77, and B. vi. c. 1. leaf 134.
'Howe gery fortune, furyous and wode.'
'And, as a swalowe geryshe of her flyghte,
Twene slowe and swyfte, now croked, now upright.'