“That ye can not espye
Howe the male dothe wrye.”
Colyn Cloute, v. 687. vol. i. 337.
“The countrynge at Cales
Wrang vs on the males.”
Why come ye nat to Courte, v. 74. vol. ii. 29,
and so Lydgate;
“Now al so mot I thryue and the, saide he than,
I can nat se for alle wittes and espyes,
And craft and kunnyng, but that the male so wryes