Citations:sely

English citations of sely

• 1861, The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period, page 393:

  ... for he, seeing his old and trusty servant so many years, with so extreme A.D. and many torments, broken and dried up, would in no wise heap so many sorrows upon one poor sely wretch, neither would commit him to the flames of fire […]

Middle English citations of sely

• Sely is þe bareyn & þe vndefouled. — Wycliffite Bible (early version)

  for þis ende þise flatiryng gloosars ... cacchen awey þe goodis of þise celi widowis. — The Lantern of Light (Wycliffite tract), 1425