There are a number of example quotations in the on-line Middle English Dictionary: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/lookup.html http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=63092228&egdisplay=open&egs=63105220 -- Doug Wilson ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org