Crossword-Solution: PESE 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Adolphe says to Alphonse--"La voila cette charmante Miss Fanni, la belle Kickleburi! je te donne ma parole, elle est fraiche comme une rose! la crois-tu riche, Alphonse?" "Je me range, mon ami, vois-tu? La vie de garcon me pese.

For thare groweth lytel goude of corne or wyn, ne benes ne pese: but beestes ben thare y nowe, and that ful grete plente.

And sum tyme it happenethe, that men fynden summe as grete as a pese, and summe lasse; and thei ben als harde as tho of Ynde.

First when thu spekist be not rekles, Kepe feete and fingeris and handes still in pese.] [Sidenote: When you stand before your sovereign, speak not recklessly, and keep your hands still.] ++Be symple of chiere, cast nat thyn ye aside, 8 Agenst the post lete nat thy bak abyde; Gaase nat aboute, to{ur}nyng ou{er}all{e}; Make nat thy myrro{ur} also of the wall{e}, Pyke nat thy nose, and in especiall{e} 12 Be right wele ware, and sette hieron thi thought, By-fore thy sou{er}ayne cracche ne rubbe nought.

First when thu spekist be not rekles, Kepe feete and fingeris and handes still in pese.] 7 ++Mi dere sone, first þi silf able w{i}t{h} al þin herte to vertuose discipline,-- A-fore þi souereyn stondinge at þe table Dispose þou þ{e}e aftir my doctryne-- To al nortur þi corage to encline.