Crossword-Solution: SHORTE 6 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And if thee list here sterven as a wrecche, A-dieu, the devel spede him that it recche!' 630 This Troilus gan with tho wordes quiken, And seyde, `Freend, graunt mercy, ich assente; But certaynly thou mayst not me so priken, Ne peyne noon ne may me so tormente, That, for no cas, it is not myn entente, 635 At shorte wordes, though I dyen sholde, To ravisshe hir, but-if hir-self it wolde.' `Why, so mene I,' quod Pandarus, `al this day.

This Diomede, that ladde hir by the brydel, Whan that he saw the folk of Troye aweye, Thoughte, `Al my labour shal not been on ydel, If that I may, for somwhat shal I seye, 95 For at the worste it may yet shorte our weye.

Criseyde, at shorte wordes for to telle, Welcomed him, and doun by hir him sette; And he was ethe y-nough to maken dwelle.

And to saie all in shorte, though I lacke Authoritie to giue 216 _The first booke teachyng_ counsell, yet I lacke not good will to wisshe, that the yougthe How expe- // in England, speciallie Ientlemen, and namelie no- rience may // bilitie, shold be by good bringing vp, so grounded proffet.

Alas! the shorte throat, the tender mouth, Maketh that east and west, and north and south, In earth, in air, in water, men do swink* *labour To get a glutton dainty meat and drink.