maistress
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]maistress
- Alternative form of maistresse
- c. 1440, Charles d'Orleans, Eleanor P. Hammond (editor), "Go forth my heart" in English Verse from Chaucer to Surrey; republished 1927; Duke U. P.; p. 214-232
- I must as a hertless body
Abide alone in hevyness,
And ye shal do wel with your maistress
In plesans glad and mery.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1440, Charles d'Orleans, Eleanor P. Hammond (editor), "Go forth my heart" in English Verse from Chaucer to Surrey; republished 1927; Duke U. P.; p. 214-232