Crossword-Solution: FADER 5 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

For sin my fader, in so heigh a place As parlement, hath hir eschaunge enseled, He nil for me his lettre be repeled.

Quod first that oon, `I am glad, trewely, By-cause of yow, that shal your fader see.' A-nother seyde, `Y-wis, so nam not I, For al to litel hath she with us be.' 690 Quod tho the thridde, `I hope, y-wis, that she Shal bringen us the pees on every syde, That, whan she gooth, almighty god hir gyde!' Tho wordes and tho wommanisshe thinges, She herde hem right as though she thennes were; 695 For, god it wot, hir herte on other thing is, Although the body sat among hem there.

For thus men seyn, "That oon thenketh the bere, But al another thenketh his ledere." Your sire is wys, and seyd is, out of drede, 1455 "Men may the wyse at-renne, and not at-rede." `It is ful hard to halten unespyed Bifore a crepul, for he can the craft; Your fader is in sleighte as Argus yed; For al be that his moeble is him biraft, 1460 His olde sleighte is yet so with him laft, Ye shal not blende him for your womanhede, Ne feyne a-right, and that is al my drede.

Hir fader hath hir in his armes nome, 190 And tweynty tyme he kiste his doughter swete, And seyde, `O dere doughter myn, wel-come!' She seyde eek, she was fayn with him to mete, And stood forth mewet, milde, and mansuete.

Fro that demaunde he so descendeth doun To asken hir, if that hir straunge thoughte 860 The Grekes gyse, and werkes that they wroughte? And why hir fader tarieth so longe To wedden hir un-to som worthy wight? Criseyde, that was in hir peynes stronge For love of Troilus, hir owene knight, 865 As fer-forth as she conning hadde or might, Answerde him tho; but, as of his entente, It semed not she wiste what he mente.