Crossword-Solution: ROBBE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And if I profit axe wolde, I not in what manere I scholde Of worldes good have sikernesse; For every thief upon richesse Awaiteth forto robbe and stele: Such good is cause of harmes fele.

And caste anon withinne his herte That sche him schal no weie asterte, 6170 Bot if he take in avantage Fro thilke maide som pilage, Noght of the broches ne the Ringes, Bot of some othre smale thinges He thoghte parte, er that sche wente; And hire in bothe hise armes hente, And putte his hond toward the cofre, Wher forto robbe he made a profre, That lusti tresor forto stele, Which passeth othre goodes fele 6180 And cleped is the maidenhede, Which is the flour of wommanhede.

Bot thus, mi Sone, thou myht have Ensample, hou that it is to fle To robbe the virginite 6340 Of a yong innocent aweie: And overthis be other weie, In olde bokes as I rede, Such Robberie is forto drede, And nameliche of thilke good Which every womman that is good Desireth forto kepe and holde, As whilom was be daies olde.

And thus the lawe is overronne, Which god hath set, and namely With hem that so untrewely The goodes robbe of holi cherche.

Prior compares his namesake’s lines _In the Beginning of_ [Jacques] _Robbe’s Geography_, 1700:— My destin’d Miles I shall have gone, By THAMES or MAESE, by PO or RHONE, And _found no Foot of Earth my own._ above the storm’s career.