Sat pésynge and pátching | of Hódg her mans brýche.
Gammer Gurton’s Needle.
Sixteenth Century, Middle (about 1548):
Such lúbbers as háth | dysgysed héads in their hóods.
Bale (died 1563), King Johan, p. 2.
Thýnke you a Róman | with the Rómans cannot lýe?
ibid. p. 84.
For as Chríste ded say to Péter, | Cáro et sánguis
Non revelávit tíbi | sed Páter meus celéstis.
ibid. pp. 92–3.