Word: drede
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...drede for to leese, save oonly...
...hoary head glittered a golden crown, over its shoulders shone a brilliant red chasuble. A long, patriarchal beard fluttered in the wind. For a moment the Figure was silent, then bellowed: I perceyve here in my majeste How that all creatures be to me unkynde, Lyvynge without drede in worldely prosperyte; Of ghostly syght the people be so blynde, Drowned in synne they know me not for theyr God; In worldely ryches is all theyr mynde...
...legends, in poetry or prose, are well worth careful reading, not only for the quaint simplicity of the style, but also for the many really noble thoughts, and the high ideas of duty and honor characteristic of a time the chief creed of which seems to have been "to drede god, and loue ryghtwiseness, feythfully and courageously to serue your souuerayne prynce...
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