sen - Middle English Compendium\nSouthwestern (dialects of Middle English)\nSouthwest Midland (dialect of Middle English)\nForms sẹ̄n v.(1) Also sẹ̄en, se, sse, sei(e, sein, sẹ̄in, seiʒen, sẹ̄ʒe, sai(e & sī, sie(n, sīe(n, sīhe, (K) zī & (chiefly early and W) seo(n, son, so(e, suen & (infl.) zienne, (early) seonne, siene, sẹ̄nde & (error) seme. Forms: sg.1 sẹ̄, sẹ̄n, scẹ̄, seis, sẹ̄ghe, seo, sō; sg.2 sẹ̄s(t, etc. & sẹ̄, sẹ̄xt, sixt, sikst, (early) sicst, sixst, sichst & sie, seo, suxst, suxt, sucst; impv. sẹ̄, sẹ̄n, sẹ̄s, seo, seh, seith; sg.3 sẹ̄th, etc. & sẹ̄uth, (early) sihð, sicð, sikþ, siʒkz & sẹ̄t, sẹ̄sse, cẹ̄s, sẹ̄ʒt, siht, siʒth, ziʒt, ziʒth, zikth, sucth, suchth, suk, (early) suþ; pl. sẹ̄n(e, sẹ̄th(e, etc. & sẹ̄, sīhe, seo, seowe & (?errors) zyeʒ, soeʒ; impv. sẹ̄th, etc. & sẹ̄it; p.sg.1 or 3 seʒ(e, zeʒe, seʒhe, seʒgh, segh(e, seghʒ, sech, (early) seh(e, sehʒ & seiʒ(e, seiʒh, seigh(e, seih(e, seich & saiʒ, saih(e, saiw, saic, (early) saiʒh & sīʒ(e, sīgh(e, sīh(e & saʒ(e, sagh(e, saghʒe, sag, sach, sachʒ, (early) sah, sæʒe, sæh, seah & sauʒ(e, saugh(e, sauh(e, saugwe, sauwh, sauwe, sau(e, sāwe & sōʒ, sough, sou, sōwe, sugh & sẹ̄, sei(e, sai(e, sī, sīe, sue & seiʒth, seith, sīth & sẹ̄ght, seight, saght, saught, sagt, sōght & (?errors) sedd, seyde, (error) sen; sg.2 sẹ̄ʒe, sẹ̄ghe, sẹ̄h(e & seiʒ(e, seih & sīʒ(e, sīgh & sagh & sauʒ, saugh, sauh(e, sāwe & sōgh, sōge, sōwe, soie & sẹ̄, sei(e, sai, sie & sẹ̄st, seiʒest, seist, saiest, sīʒest, sauʒ(e)st, sāwest & (?error) sein; pl. sẹ̄ʒ(e(n, zẹ̄ʒen, sẹ̄ghe(n, sẹ̄n(e, sewe(n, (early) sẹ̄gen, sẹ̄he(n, sẹ̄hʒe(n & seiʒ(e(n, seigh, seih, seien, sein(e, saien, sain & sīʒ(e(n, sīgh(e(n, sīʒh, sīhe(n, sīen & saʒ(e, sagh(e, (early) sæʒhe(n, sæʒe, sægon, seagon & sauʒ(en, saugh, sauh, sau(e, scau, sawe(n, (early) sāwon & soʒe, sōgen, sou, sōwe(n & seon & sẹ̄, sei(e, sai(e, sī, sie, seo, sō & (?error) sight; ppl. sẹ̄n(e, sein(e, seien, seiʒen(e, cẹ̄ne, (early) seʒhen, sehen(e, sehne, segon, sægon & sain(e, sīne, sonne, sōgen, sōwen & sẹ̄nene & sẹ̄, sei(e, seiʒe, sai(e, sīe, sau, sawe & (?errors) seuene, swane, sayde, (error) sent; comp. (early) sẹ̄nre, sẹ̄nure. Contractions: sestou(e, seistou, sextou, sixtou, suxtou (sest thou); sehte (error for sehste, = sest thou).\nEtymology OE or LOE (chiefly WS unless indicated) sēon, sīon, (A) sēa(n; infl.inf. sēonne; sg.1 sēo; sg.2 sihst; sg.3 si(e)hþ, sīþ; impv. sioh, (A) seh, sih; pl. sēoþ, (A) sēað; p. seah, seh, (A) sæh; pl. sāwon, sǣgon, (A) sēgon; ppl. sewen. For relevant forms of OE gesēon see ME isẹ̄n v. Some SW and SWM forms in p.sg.2 and pl. for which ẹ̄ is given may have had ē. Analogies within the paradigm and with other strong verbs account for many nondialectal irregularities in ME. Some forms are marked as dissyllabic in the inf., but doubtless such forms existed throughout the paradigm.\nNote: Cp. isen v.(1).\n(a) To see (sb., sth., a place) with the eyes, catch sight of, notice; also, be able to see (sb., sth., a place); also fig.; (b) with ellipsis of obj. or rel.pron.; -- also in than clause; (c) ppl. sene, visible, seen with the eyes; able to be seen; also fig.; ben sene; ben sene to, to appear to (sb.); (d) ~ mid (at, thurgh) eie, ~ with eie (eien, bodiliche eien, sight, bodi-sight, eie-sight); -- also without obj. after than; (e) to see (God, Christ, the Holy Ghost); (f) with negative obj.: to see (nothing of sth., nothing but sth., no one but sb., nobody), not see (sb. or sth.); ~ non in sight; also with negative subj.: no-more (no-thing) sene; (g) of the eye(s: to see (sb. or sth.), look at; see visual evidence of (sth.); also fig.; also in proverb.\nShow 142 Quotations Hide 142 Quotations\n1122 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1122 : Hi sægon on norð east fir micel..Þæt fir hi seagon in ðe dæi rime.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7623 : Her I seo full witerrliʒ Þin Hælennd Crist onn eorþe.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3128 : Nakede heo weoren, and naðing ne rohten wha heore leome sæʒe [Otho: sehe].\nc1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)34/558 : Þet wif..hwen ha kimeð in..sið [Tit: Seoð] þe cat et te fliche.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)242 : Bi daie þu art stareblind Þat þu ne sichst [Jes-O: syst] ne bos ne strind.\na1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)267 : Aþousent angles aboute þe i see.\nc1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)215/25 : Þo kinges hem wenten and hi seghen þo sterre þet yede bifore hem.\na1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)386 : Tu wuldest seien get, gef ðu it soge wan it flet, ðat it were a neilond.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)6542 : Hii sehen bi þe wowes þe swein mid monekes cloþes.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)7353 : Hii sehe on hire riht hond a swiþe fair yllond.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)7976 : Aiþer wende to his hole; ne seah ham suþþe no man ibore.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1301 : Ðe ðride day he sagt ðe stede Ðe god him witen in herte dede.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3522 : Ðis for-frigted folc figeren stod..Sogen ðat figer.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10788 : Þou sucst [vr. suxst] þis folc ouer muche þat aʒe þe is.\na1350 Horn (Hrl 2253)8/130 : O þat sprong þe day lyht fflotterede horn by þe stronde er he seye eny londe.\nc1330 Orfeo (Auch)355 : Amidde þe lond a castel he siʒe.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)75/33 : Þe gentyl hond..zyþ his praye touore his eʒen.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)108/19 : Þe more me zyʒt þe sseppinges briʒte, þe more hit is wynynde him ʒelue to yzyenne.\na1350 SLeg.Brendan (Ashm 43)39 : Our suete lord verrore ous gon lede So þat we seie [Bod: syʒe] an ilond.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)276 : Sei þou euer þemperour?\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2232 : Þei saie a litel hem bi-side a semliche quarrere.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1679 : Hit ys Mantryble þat þow sye wyþ þe grete brigge.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.38.15 : Whom whenn Iudas hadde seeyn, he trowid here to ben a strompet.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.2.9 : The sterre, the whiche thei sayen [WB(2): siʒen] in este, wente bifore hem.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.9.36 : Jhesus, siynge cumpanyes, hadde rewthe of hem.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1066 : Palamon..romed in a chambre an heigh In which he al the noble citee seigh [vr. sihe].\nc1390 Susan.(Vrn)222 : Whon we þat semblaunt seiʒ [vr. syghe], we siked wel sare.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.1369 : He upon the morwe scholde..Be present in the kinges sihte, So that the king him ofte sihe.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.2168 : Whanne he sih This Hercules and Deianyre, Withinne his herte he gan conspire.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1334 : He loked in..And sagh [Frf: saghe; Göt: sau; Trin-C: say] þe thing þat gart him doute.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)26884 : He þe deuel a-bot him saght, Bot saued him-self wit mikel agh[t].\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)17907 : Iesus i biheld and sei [Arms:Morris: siʒe; Ld: sie; Trin-C: sy] Quen he to me was comand nei.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)9.66 : I haue sewide þe seuen ʒer; seiʒe [vrr. seye, saw, seest; B vrr. seyʒ, sawe; C: seih; vr. siʒe] þou me no raþere?\nc1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)985 : Þay slypped bi and syʒe hir not þat wern hir samenferes.\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)308 : Ʒe setten hys wordez ful westernays Þat louez [read: leuez] noþynk bot ʒe hit syʒe.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)672 : Al þat seʒ þat semly syked in hert.\na1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)1530 : To þat steode þey went bydene Þer þey scholde þeo castel seone.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.m.1.6 : The swifte thoght hath clothid itself in tho fetheris..and it seth the clowdes byhynde his bak.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)225/23 : Whanne þis soule come for to taaste þat liʒt, bycause sche say it and knewe it, þerfore sche ran..to þe table of holy desier.\na1450(?a1390) Mirk Fest.Suppl.(Cld A.2)290/6 : Also ofte os Adam seyght þat tree, he schulde haue mynde of God.\na1450 NPass.(Cmb Dd.1.1)182/1559 : Him sowin þe iewis alle.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)126 : Þanne comaundede þe king cofli to feche Of þat freliche frut þat þe frekus siee.\nc1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)1129 : Hyt ys no nede to reherse it more, How ye sawe [vr. sawgh] hir first, and where.\nc1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)25 : I seghe ane hert with ane hede, ane heghe for the nones.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.225 : If þou sawh a mannes dede careyn, Now woldest þou iugen þat a man it is.\nc1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)72/5-6 : Who-so myghte se the wondes of the soule as he seez the wondes of the body, he schulde neuer se so greuose wondes.\nc1450 Treat.Fish.(Yale 171)159/15 : Kepe you euer from þe watur..þat þe fysche see yow not.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.21.14a : Þe feiþ of holi kirke is þi feiþ, þougʒ þou neiþer see hit ne fele it.\n?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)534 : Ye wolde be agaste, yef ye me say.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.85 : Þe ymage..seeith the nought.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)48/31 : We seghen his sterre yn þe est.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)14 : They shewed to the modere, and when she it sough, she fayned [read: sayned] her.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)18 : She neuer sedd hym that dide the deed.\na1500(1465) Leversedge Vision (Add 34193)31 : All hir body was so couerd with the seid mantell of blake that my saule myʒt not perseyue nor see of hir fot ne hand.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)123/32 : Me loueþ ane man..uor þet me heþ onderuonge grat guod of him..Loue of beleaue hyerþ ine dede. Loue of hope uelþ þane smel and zekþ. Loue of charite nimþ and zikþ and zuelʒþ and halt.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 18.11 : If þou seeʒe [vr. sawʒ; WB(2): siʒest], whi stikedest þou not hym wiþ þe erþe?\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 1.12 : An aungel of the Lord apperid to him..And Sacharie seynge was disturblid.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2411 : Sai..þou art my sister..Elles þat folk quen þai see, Sal þai me sla for luue o þe.\n?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)15/35 : Þough þou se me hidouse..it is made be enchauntement..I am non oþer þan þou seest now, a womman.\n?a1425 Glo.Chron.B (Dgb 205)5023 : Seiʒe [vr. sey; A: Þe brutons..made a kinges fourme..& vpe þe west ʒate of londone sette hit wel heye..þat men wel wide yseie].\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)47 : On ure helendes lichame wiðuten sene, þe holie saule wiðinne unsene..Alse wex on þe candele sene, þe wueke wiðinnen unsene.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)92/650 : He halt in his hont..alle ischepene þing, sehene [Roy: sehne] ant unsehene.\na1275 Wolle ye i-heren (Trin-C B.14.39)40/51 : Þe sterre was boþen sotel & sene.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1888 : Iacob dalf hire and merke dede, Ðat is get sene on ðat stede.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1792 : Þei drow hem to a dern den for drede to be seiʒen.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Cor.15.5 : He was seyn to Cephas.\n(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.134 : Hir ouer lippe wyped she so clene That in hir coppe ther was no ferthyng sene.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)131b/a : Fire is myddil and mene bytwene seyne þingis & vnsey.\na1400 Cursor (Frf 14)566 : Hit [soul] has vnderstandynge clene of þinge sayde [Trin-C: seyn] and vnseyne.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)148 : Wonder of his hwe men hade Set in his semblaunt sene.\na1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)24/104 : Sir Philip wanted all his will, Þat was wele on his sembland sene.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.1.36 : Bytwixen thise two lettres ther were seyn [vr. seien] degrees nobly ywrought in manere of laddres.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)49b/a : And þei were not ioyned to gidere, one þing sene schulde seme to us as it were ij þingis.\n(1434) Misyn ML (Corp-O 236)129/6 : In contemplacion þat vnsemly lightis þe saule, noo seyn light we see.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.942 : Bresis seyn, men fle to house.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)1457 : Þere was no-thyng senene..Of þe trace þat þe prest had wt þe fyle y-made.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)4136 : No blodus drope was senene þo þere.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)183 : As a serpent soyn was he sent [read: sene; rime: wene, meyn, tene].\n?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)29/23 : Atte her dethe was saine a grete clerete & light.\nc1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)3079 : Geffrey stode oppon a fourm, for he wold be sey Above all othir.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)341 : He þat schytyth wyth hys hoyll..But he wyppe hys ars clen..On hys breche yt xall be sen.\nc1490 Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Trin-C R.3.15)F.1281 : Sawe [Heng: He knew ful wel how fer Alnath was shoue ffro the heed of..Aries].\na1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)4.28.70b : Þere is a maner of conuenyence be twyn the thing þat is seyn in the myrroure & þat other þat is sey withowt.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1958 : Meen odours be not in certeyne Smyllid bi nose, as meen colours be sayne.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)89 : In this shall..be founden..What Shippes þere were shene.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13588 : Cumm nu wiþþ me to sen þin Godd Wiþþ erþliʒ bodiʒsihhþe.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)19425 : Nass he næfre seʒhenn her Þurrh erþliʒ flæshess eʒhe.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)19441 : Þeʒʒ sæʒhenn Godd wiþþ ehne, acc nohht Inn hiss goddcunnde kinde.\na1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)207 : Al ic wolde bi swike þat i sen miste mid eie.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3415 : Of al that day she seigh hym noght with eye.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)10032 : Y may make ouþer certeyn whan y with yen haue þe seyn [vr. seyʒene].\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1705 : Quen þay seghe hym with syʒt, þay sued hym fast.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)2043 : He saw me nevere with eyen syght.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)23.265 : Neuere schalt thow him se with Eye.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1516 : Þi fyue wyttys mysdyspent In synne..Wyth eyne sen, herys herynge, [etc.].\nc1450(c1386) Chaucer LGW Prol.(1) (Benson-Robinson)11 : Men shulde leve Wel more thing then men han seen with ye.\nc1450(c1386) Chaucer LGW Prol.(1) (Benson-Robinson)100 : Men mosten more thyng beleve Then men may seen at eye.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)124/3713 : Yowre bewte..May not ben with my derkid eyen sayne.\na1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)21.18 : Thai..lokyd in me, that is, thai saghe me bodily with bodily eghen.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)888 : Melk whyt was he[r] face: So seyde þat her sygh wyth syʒt.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)10930 : Allmahhtiʒ Gast comm uppo Crist Inn aness cullfress like, Forr þatt he shollde seʒhenn beon O sume kinne wise.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)117 : Ðo openede þe holi gost him seluen to isende bi þan þe hem þuhte shapen alse tunge fele twiselende..and for þat hie him swich segen seint ambrosius shewed þus.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)355 : Moyses him sauh..In fourme of a bush al on fire.\na1400(?a1325) Bonav.Medit.(1) (Hrl 1701)212 : He þat þou seest yn þe prestes fest..yn forme of brede, Hyt ys goddys sone.\na1456(a1402) *Trev.Nicod.(Add 16165)104b : I sawe [vr. seye] Ihesus as hit Were bright blasing of light.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)5972 : Ne sæʒe [Otho: sehʒe] heo noht of londe.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)100/697 : Ʒet ne seh Katerine nanes cunnes pine þet ha oht dredde.\nc1300 SLeg.Brendan (Hrl 2277:Wright)p.6 : Nou nuste non of hem whar he was, ne no lond he ne say.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6962 : No fur ine velede ne ne sei in þis place.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2427 : William..bi-huld..ʒif eny wiʒt were walkende, but he non seie.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1245 : Sche gan be-holde aboute, & sayw þer no man.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.167 : Þe witnesse..sigh [vr. sye] noʒt but askes.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)15 : Þei..Made hem to huppe half an hundret foote, forte seche boþem þer þei non seiʒen.\na1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)23/277 : He shuld see noon Armour bryʒt.\nc1425 Found.St.Barth.61/7 : They lokid abowte one euery side and sye noon hostrye whydyr they myghte drawe.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)2642 : Hurre lappe was hole aʒeyn..& no-thyng senene of þat þat þe knyff had y-do.\na1450 St.Etheldr.(Fst B.3)847 : Þe grete suellyng..Was vanysshede a-way and nothyng seuene [read: senene].\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)491 : No maner creature..Ne sawgh I, me to rede or wisse.\nc1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.42 : He wende that no mon hade him herd, For he seʒhe non in siʒte.\n(c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)18/3 : Thus com þe men and se no persone þere but Alipius alone.\n(1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)76/27 : He, no man seand..spak in þe goost.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1239/25 : I sy nothynge but watirs wap and wawys wanne.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)17/11 : I segh no woman.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)125 : Forth-wyth-al they wer transfygured and no more seene of hem.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)90/627 : Nan eorðliche ehe ne mei hit seon.\n?a1300(c1250) Prov.Hend.(Dgb 86)st.19 : Þat eye ne seeþ, herte ne reweþ.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)396 : Man, mihte hit euere þanne be Þat bodilich eiʒe mihte him se Here on eorþe, þe godhede?\n(c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.255 : Two corones han we..Which that thyne eyen han no myght to se.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Job 20.9 : Þe eʒe þat hym seiʒ shal not seen & his place no mor shal beholden hym.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.845 : Thy blisful eyen sawe al his torment.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4508 : Hert sun for-gettes þat ne ei seis [Frf: sese; Göt: ses].\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)11341 : Nu min ei has sen þin hel.\nc1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)3405 : Þai sall haue þe blys of heuen Whare joy ys more þan..eye may se or ken.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.310 : O woful eyen two..youre disport Was al to sen Criseydes eyen brighte.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)15/17 : Ic is laʒed and mekid til alle þat mine eʒin se.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)53/4 : Welcome to me..to dwellyn wyth me in joy & blysse, whech non eye may se.\na1450 LDirige(1) (Dgb 102)318 : Noon eyʒe hadde sene me after son.\na1450 Where-of is mad (Dgb 102)92 : Quod þe eyʒe, 'I wende but o mone þere were, And me þouʒte two y seyʒe.'\nc1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)842 : Hir eyen..gladly, I trow, myn herte seyen.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1876 : With diuers digestions, and diuers degrees, Al colours be made which youre Eyen seeis.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)94 : Myne yghen haue seen thyn helthe.\n(a) To look at (sb. or sth.), gaze upon; examine (sth.), inspect; look (sb. in the face); ~ herte blod, kill (sb.); (b) to view (a place, town, etc.), visit; also, go to (heaven).\nc1230 Ancr.(Corp-C 402)215/4 : Toʒeines þe sist [Cleo: þe þe isist] men, spekeð þe apostle.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)504 : Cum & se a wel fair flur.\nc1300 Horn (LdMisc 108)40/743 : Hys brenye he gan lace..Ne durst him noman sen [vr. seon].\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)4035 : Folc ebru..ðat ic se, Blisced sal ben ðe bliscede ðe.\na1350 Most i ryden (Hrl 2253)15 : Þe sonnebeem aboute noon me þohte þat y seʒe.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)11/1 : Huo þet ziʒþ ane wyfman and wylneþ his ine herte, he heþ y-zeneʒed ine hyre ine his herte.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)91/32 : Þe droþe of þe deawe, huanne me his zykþ auer, anlykneþ to ane stone of pris.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2423 : For feiþli a fourteniʒt non hadde seie oþeres face.\n?a1425(?c1350) NHom.(3) Pass.(RwlPoet 175)899 : Scho saw Peter in þe face.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.179 : Apolynes ymages he brouʒte to byskorne..to hem þat byhelde hem and say.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)200 : Þe kyng nuste wel..wheþer þat he seʒe was on forte sigge oþer two.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.279 : Thanne was his visage, that oghte be desired to be seyn of alle mankynde..vileynsly bispet.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.552 : I hadde the bettre leyser..for to be seye Of lusty folk.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)7755 : And þou dude hym ouʒth bot good, He wolde sen þine herte-blood.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)2.150 : Soþnesse seiʒ [C: seih; vr. si] hem wel & seide but litel.\na1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)665 : Þeo folk..Come þidre heom to seo.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.m.2.10-11 : This man..saugh [vrr. sawh, sauʒ] the lyghtnesse of the rede sonne and saugh [vrr. sawgh, sue] the sterres of the coolde mone.\nc1440(a1400) Awntyrs Arth.(Thrn)131 : Who þat myghte þat hedows see..How hir cholle chatirede!\n(a1449) Paston2.522 : And thow leyst any hand on the gate, I xall sey thyn hert blod or thow myn.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)9011 : He tasted his pous, saw his vryn.\nc1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)7/7 : Mawmetrie of money is whan a man..hath a likynge to se his catel.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)682 : Quat is þe planet or þe poynt ʒe purpose to seme [read: sene; Dub: se]?\nc1450 *Bk.Marchalsi (Hrl 6398)7a : On þe morwe se hym [horse], wel þat he be cold.\n?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)1457 : Cuthbert..oft tyme sow and with þaim [angels] spak.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)64/7 : Seeth here Seint Iohn.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)34/184 : I dare nevyr se man in þe vesage.\na1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)2043 : Hydous it was hys oste to see.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.92 : Seeyt hym þat doth awey synnys of þis word!\na1500 St.Alex.(5) (Tit A.26)66/334 : Ys thys my sone þat I here scee?\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)2/8 : Nan mon ne sihð Godes rice æfre, buton he beo æft akenned.\nc1300 SLeg.Brendan (LdMisc 108)59 : Þat watur ne mowe ʒe passi nouʒt þat oþur del to seo.\n(c1375) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3305 : Euery reawme wente he for to se.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.65 : A pilgrym wolde now wepe, and he seigh it [York] Ʒif he knewe hit or he wente out.\na1400(?a1325) Bonav.Medit.(1) (Hrl 1701)134 : To a logher place þey gunne þan to go, Þey þat þe hous haue sey seyn ryʒt so.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)1.5 : Ich wente forth..And sawe meny cellis.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)3/13 : I..sau and passede thorw manye dyuerse regeonys.\n?a1450 MLChrist (Add 39996)797 : Þai token oure Lord to þe cite To playe hym & þe toun to se.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)496 : Constantinople..is chieff cete of Grece, As alle men knowen that it sees.\n(a) To observe (an event or action, events or actions in general, a sight, a state of affairs), witness; also, observe (one's own words and deeds) at Doomsday [quot.: a1225(?c1175)]; (b) with ellipsis of obj. or rel.pron.; -- also in as clause; (c) ~ at eie (with eien, with sight, etc.); -- also without obj. [quot.: Cloud]; (d) ~ merveille (miracle, selcouth, selli, signe, wonder); ~ token (tokening); (e) ~ sight (with eien; ~ sight of, to see (sb. or sth.); ~ sight o with ertheli eie, see (sb.).\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1106 : Hig ma..uncuðra steorra gesawon, ac we..hit sylfe ne sawon.\na1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1127 : Þis wæs segon on þe selue derfald in þa tune on Burch..Þis wæs sægon & herd fram þæt he þider com eall þæt lented tid on an to Eastren.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3419 : Marʒe toc All þatt ʒho sahh & herrde, & all ʒhot held inn hire þohht.\na1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)158 : Þer he scal al son [vrr. seon, sien] him biforen, his word and ec his deden.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)44/2 : [A]lre kingene king, brec mine bondes, þet ich & alle þet soð hit, heien þe.\na1250(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Tit D.18)57/726 : Lef lanhure þet tusest, miracles þet beð maked ʒet þurh him.\n?c1250 PMor.(Eg 613(1))98 : Nabbet hi noþing for-ʒyte of al þat hi ere seʒen.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1055 : Þe chaunpiouns þat put sowen.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1323 : I woth, so wel so ich it sowe, To þe shole comen heye and lowe.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)376 : His felawes, þo hii seie [B vrr. sawʒ, saugh] þis, bigonne to fle.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)386 : Mani kniʒt and baroun hende Seiʒen þis of her kende.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)5769 : Her swerdes..to ded mani smite; It was swiþe litel sene, For oʒaines on þer wer tene.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2933 : No say nouʒt what þou ses.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)34/7 : Al þet he yherþ, al þet he ziʒþ, al hit him tieneþ.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)5058 : No clerk..ne kowþe nouʒt descriue..þe solempne seruise þat seyn was þat time.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.1064 : Alle the creatures in heuene, in erthe, and in helle shullen seen apertly al that they [the impenitent] hyden in this world.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1105-6 : Whan he comth..shul ye see A wonder thyng which ye sey [vrr. saugh, say, see, sawe] neuere er this.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)10068 : To flesshe and blode hyt ys alle went..verryly we se [vr. seon] hyt alle.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)9848 : He war ferliful to call, if þou it sagh.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)10508 : Þou ma god chere Quat-sum euer þou se or here.\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Mat.9.33 : The puple wondride, and seide, 'It hath not be say thus in Israel.'\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)15/11 : Þeneke on yure synnys..tat ye be als rad als ye saʒ þe iugiment of god.\n(1425) RParl.4.268a : Wauter seyd..howe in his yonge daies yat he hath see he wolde vouche sauf to remembre.\nc1440(a1401) Life Bridlington in NM 71 (Yale 331)p.142 : He did ilk man equite; He myght wele suffir & abide, Seand mens dedis on ilk a side, Wham þat he knew wel occupied.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)273 : Syttyth all stylle And seth..Oure ryche aray.\nc1450 WBible(2) (Bod 277)1 Kings 19.5 : Sauʒst this [Roy: the Lord made greet heelthe to al Israel; thou siʒ and were glad].\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)213/1981 : Priamus..Stant in his towre and sethe all þyng.\na1500 Awntyrs Arth.(Dc 324)382 : His mayles were mylke white, many hit seene.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)1886 : Shullen hise ministres with him be In þe doome it to here and see?\na1350 Most i ryden (Hrl 2253)72 : Þe water..worþeþ al to wyn; þat seʒen, seyden so.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 6.16 : Þe fyue maistres of philistynes seeyn, & ben turnyd aʒeen in to Acchoron.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 19.5 : Þe lord hath don gret liʒt to al israel; þou hast seen [WB(2): thou siʒ] & gladedist.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.9.11 : Pharisees seeynge, saiden to his disciplis, [etc.].\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 19.35 : And he that syʒ [WB(2): saiʒ], bar witnessing.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)24028 : I sagh [Phys-E: sah] and stil a-bade.\na1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)763 : In a toure thay clymbyd on hyghe, Pryvyliche tha[t] no man see.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)139/4146 : So wolde y pray you..The sight to se as y haue seyne.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)86 : Thus com he to my chambir, seinge alle my peple.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)8094 : A gloue of þat gay gate he belyue..None seond but hir-selfe.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1273 : He shal ben king..Of engelond and denemark; Þat shalt þu with þin eyne sen.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1989 : Ʒour dedes han ben sain Wiþ siʒt.\nc1330 Roland & V.(Auch)1 : He it seiʒe wiþ siʒt.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.2378 : He swyued thee, I saw it with myne eyen.\n(c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)7 : He shal report..þat he haþ seye with his eynen.\na1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)23/79 : Þat saw Edward with both his ine.\na1425(?a1400) Cloud (Hrl 674)108/9 : What þer-of, þof oure Lorde..toke his wey upwardes into þe cloudes, seing his moder & his disciples wiþ here bodely iʒen?\n(?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.108 : The rounde dropis..Which that discende..On stonys harde, at eye as it is seyn, Perceth ther hardnesse.\na1500 Discip.Cler.(Wor F.172)24 : This cause can I nat deme bi heryng, but as it was at the first bitwixt yow I may see it at eye.\n?a1200(?OE) PDidax.(Hrl 6258b)33/21 : Þanne þu þas tacnu[n]ʒe seo on þan manna, þanne scealt þu hym blod lætan.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3335 : Þær onnfasst i þatt illke land Wass seʒhenn mikell takenn.\nc1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)217/105 : Fore þe miracle þet hi seghe was here beliaue þe more i-strengþed.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)140 : Sunne and mone ðe moste ben Of alle ðe toknes ðat men her sen.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)13/149 : Þat folk..wel þicke drou þat wonder forto se.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.373 : Meruayles þat þey sey beeþ ʒit þere i-wrete.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)90 : He dude Miracles feole þat mony men seiʒen.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pri.(Manly-Rickert)B.1863 : Whan this abbot hadde this wonder seyn [vr. seyne], His salte teerys trikled doun as reyn.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)134 : Talys shalt þou fynde..Meruelys some as y fonde wrytyn And oþer þat haue be seyn & wetyn.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16171 : Of him he wend ha signes sene.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)12.133 : Lyueres to-forn vs vseden to marke Þe selkouthes þat þei seighen, her sones for to teche.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)239 : Fele sellyez had þay sen.\na1425 Shrewsbury Frag.(Shrw 6)4/38 : Crist is rysen, wittenes we By tokenes þat we haue sen þis morn!\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2112 : Þare saʒe he selcuthis sere.\n?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)7.159 : The cardinalles and moche peple seenge that miracle, beriede the body in the churche.\na1500(?a1425) Chester Pl.Antichr.(Pen 399)494/68 : Doe byfore us some maistrye, a signe that we may see.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)28b/24 : I sawe in hym tokens of dethe.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)451 : We shal soone se tokeninge Who shal haue sounest his axyng.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)19241 : He & Cristess oþre posstless Sæʒhenn wiþþ erþlic eʒhe..sihhþe O þeʒʒre Laferrd.\na1350 St.Alex.(1) (LdMisc 108)71/522 : I wolde myn herte it breke a-tuo, þat I ne saye [vr. saiʒ] nowth þis syʒth.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1744 : Icham a-grise..to se no hidous a siʒt of youre semli face.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4551 : The hennes..hadde seyn of Chauntecleer the sighte.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.983 : The peple ran to seen the sighte Of hire array.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)16.117 : Some þat þe siʒte seyne [vr. seiʒen] saide þat tyme Þat he was leche of lyf.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)310/9 : It is so horrible þat a creature had leuer suffre al maner peynes in þis world þan for to se þat siʒt.\n(c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)111/6 : Þer [in Hell] þay se a sorouful syʒt.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)3985 : Was neuer so sorowfull a syghte seyn with myn eyghen.\na1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)2049 : Many fayre syghtys say he there.\nc1450 Ihesus þat sprong (Lamb 853)8 : In hir þou siʒ a semeli sete.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)162/323 : I saughe a syght.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)683 : Whanne þe king hadde seen þis sight, He was ful ioy ful.\na1500 St.Brendan Conf.(Lamb 541)9/96 : I haue be slouʒ in my seyng to se þe siʒtis of þe goodnes of þee, God.\nTo see visual evidence of (sorrow, distress, need, magic power, a way of life, etc.), perceive; also fig.; also, see (nothing but sorrow); also, see the source of (a voice).\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)18965 : Swa þeʒʒ mare herenn & sen Off Cristess rihhtwisnesse.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)19231 : We sæʒhenn..Hiss wurrþshipe & hiss wullderr.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)139 : His word..teh folc to him to heren his wise word and to sende his wunderliche liflode.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)40/29 : Striken men þiderward of eauer-euch strete for to seo þet sorhe þet me walde leggen on hire leofliche bodi.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)884 : Hi ne soþ [Jes-O: seoþ] her nowiʒt bote sorwe.\n?c1250 PMor.(Eg 613(1))263 : Þe wrecchen..of his owen nolde ʒiuen þer he sei þe nede.\na1300 I syke (Dgb 2)50 : Sin Ion..and mari wepind..al þi sorue seye.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)26 : God srid him in manliched..And halp ðor he sag mikel ned.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2785 : Ic haue min folkes pine sogen.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)670 : Vor þat men ssolde is enchantement se, He let him makie wengen an hei vor to fle.\na1350 I syke (Hrl 2253)30 : Marie wepeþ sore ant siht al þis wo.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.7 : I tourned me to see þe voice þat spaak to me.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2507 : Se what sorwe he suffres to saue vs tweine!\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2232 : Mercy, lady bright, that..seest what harmes that I feele.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.224 : Ther is A vice..Which envious takth his gladnesse Of that he seth the hevinesse Of othre men.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)24060 : Moder murnand, wepe coth þou, þis soru seand o iesu?\nc1400 I herd an harping (BodDon c.13)25 : Was neuer swilk sorou syne sie.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.46 : Sestow [vr. seystow] nought my destresse?\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)101/3 : The good spirit sholde not be harde to graunte there where it seeth [vr. seet] necessite.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)425 : Dynys..siʒe the conuersacioun and gouernaunce of Poul.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)943 : Alexander..Sees slike a rottillyng in þe rewme.\nc1450(a1400) Chev.Assigne (Clg A.2)359 : Hit was doole for to se þe sorowe þat he made.\nWith compound obj.: (a) with noun or pron. and inf. as obj.: to see with the eyes (sb. or sth. do sth., sb. or sth. doing sth., sb. experience sth., sth. occur), watch; also, see (sb. offered for sale) [quot.: a1387]; ~ with eien; (b) with indefinite hit and inf. as obj.; (c) with ellipsis of obj. before inf.; (d) with comen followed by pr.ppl. or inf.\na1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1127 : Þa son þær æfter þa sægon & herdon fela men feole huntes hunten.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)10676 : He sahh þære Godess Gast, Inn aness cullfress like, Off heoffne cumenn upponn Crist.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3929 : Welle broðer..þat ich..þe bi mire side isund seʒe riden.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)115 : He cumeð eft alswo ge him segen faren into heuene.\na1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)35 : E sei maidan maregrete scep bi foren hire driue.\na1275(?c1150) Prov.Alf.(Trin-C B.14.39)131/591 : Ʒif..þu þen beuir hore sixst þe bi-foren stonden, buch þe from þi sete.\na1300(c1250) Floris (Vit D.3)53 : Þe Kinges herte is ful of care, Þat he sikþ is sone vor loue so fare.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)12843 : Hii sehʒen noht vorre on mochel fur smokie.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)452/127 : He saiʒh douedoppene fisches cachche.\nc1300 The milde Lomb (Arun 248)30 : Þu sicst me with þin eyen pine þole o rode.\na1325 SLeg.Mich.(Corp-C 145)254 : Ofte in forme of womman..Me sicþ of hom gret companie boþe hoppe & pleie.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)187 : Men of france in þulke vuel sone me sucþ [vr. syþ] amende.\na1350 God þat al þis myhtes (Hrl 2253)39 : We shule suen þy wounde blede.\nc1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)148/551 : Þe merrer hyt hys ine bataylle Þet msykþ [read: me sykþ] al þe vomen faylle.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)173/23 : Mochel ssolde he by fol þet zeʒe his hous berne þet nolde an haste yerne to þe wetere.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)2857 : He soʒ him falle.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 9.37 : We syʒen [WB(2): sayn] sum oon for to caste out fendis in thi name.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.5 : Seint Gregorie seih Englische children to selle at Rome.\nc1390 Susan.(Vrn)337 : Þou sey nou..Vnder what kynde of tre Semeli susan þou se Do þat derne dede.\nc1390 Treat.Mass (Vrn)281 : Takeþ good tent Þat ʒe holde no parlyment..Whon..ʒe seo þe prest bi-ginne Take þe vestimens on.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2855 : In a salt stan men seis [Frf: seyse] hir stand.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4309 : Quen þou seis [Frf: seise] him [love] busk to þe, þou do þe stallworthli to flei.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)20293 : Ded war me leuer þat i wer þan i þe saghe sli semblant mak.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)8.128 : I..sauʒ [vrr. sagh, sawe, sith; B: seighe; C: seih] þe sonne euene souþ sitte þat tyme.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.219 : I haue seyne [C vr. seiʒe] charite..syngen and reden.\nc1400 *Aelred Inst.(1) (Vrn)1185 : Þu sikst so manye salte teris lassche adoun..ouer here rodye chekes.\na1425(c1300) NHom.(1) Dom.infra Nativ.(Cmb Gg.5.31)p.76 : Scho on rode sugh hyr son hang.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.720 : They..Seigh hire so wepe and thoughte it kyndenesse.\n?a1425 Luke in his lesson leres to (RwlPoet 175)p.286 : We saw his stern in þe est spedily vpspryng.\n(1439) Case King Council in Seld.Soc.35105b : He was asked yif he sye the lord Faunhope drawe eny dagger.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)1405 : Thare ware Bretons enbuschide, and banarettez..Seese them chase oure men.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)59/30 : They..puttyn of here shon for gret reuerence, And whan myn felawys and I sewyn hem so don, we dedyn of oure.\na1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)121/492 : Þerfore schalt þou when þou sixte þe flesche ouer-passe þe brynkes of þe skyn with-jnne þe wonde.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1429 : I sigh [vr. sighe] Upon a piler stonde..The Ebrayk Josephus.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)138/3 : An herdman þat haþ no shepe of ys own propur, when þat he seeys þe wolfe com, he flees.\nc1460 Dub.Abraham (Dub 432)98 : Isaac, son, þou neuer ʒit me sye Do no soche obseruaunce.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)189/1136 : Ector seth his blode ryn down.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.224 : He is lyk þe ape, þat what he syʒth oþir men don, he wil don þe same.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)16 : Cristene men ogen ben so fagen So fueles arn quan he it sen dagen.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.2176 : Erly, whan thei sihe it lyht, Thei gon hem forth.\na1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)91/87 : Feþeres bynde þere-to, & so I haue seye hit staunche wel I-nowʒ.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)5071 : Whan bordes were born a-doun..Men miʒt haue seie to menstrales moche god ʒif.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.1849 : Sche hoved and abod To se diverse game pleie.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14962 : To yon castel ga yee..Yee se [Trin-C: seen] again yow stand.\nc1330 Degare (Auch)139 : Þanne seghen hi ate last Tweie squiers come prikend fast.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3615 : Hym thynketh verrailiche that he may se Noes flood come walwyng as the see To drenchen Alison.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)54/13 : Sche sawe þe body come fletyng on the ryver-side.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)13.759 : They sy..Aʒens hem tho batailles Comen prekynge.\nc1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9:French&Hale)622 : Þay so a schene..Come prekand fast aure þe filde.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)853 : Þan syʒ þey Gyffroun come ryde.\na1500(a1400) Libeaus (Lamb 306)793 : Jeffrond..ses Lybeus Disconyous Come prickande with pryde.\nWith compound obj.: (a) with noun or pron. and pr.ppl. as obj.: to see with the eyes (sb. or sth. doing sth.), watch; (b) with noun or pron. and p.ppl. as obj.: to see or watch (sb. or sth. undergoing an action or a process, sth. done); (c) with noun or pron. and p.ppl. used adjectivally: to see (sb. or sth. in a specified condition or state); (d) with noun or pron. and pred.adj. or adv. as obj.: to see or find (sb., sth., oneself in a specified condition or state); (e) with noun or pron. qualified by a prep.phr. as obj.: to see (sb. or sth. in a specified condition or state); (f) with pron. and noun as obj.: to see (sb. to be sth.).\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)108/4 : Summe..ne sceolden deaþæs onfon ær þam þe heo seʒen hine sylfen on his rice cumende.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)175 : Ure helende..segh þos tweie brodren in þe se on here shipe werpinde ut here fishnet.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)3729 : Richardis stede þanne þay saye Rennyngge a-streyey.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.18.7 : Þei seeʒyn þe puple dwellyng in it wiþ outyn any drede.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judith 10.19 : Judit, seyng [vr. seande] olofernes sittynge in þe canope..honourede hym.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.9.23 : Jhesus..seeʒ mynstrelis and the companye makynge noyse.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 6.19 : Thei seen [WB(2) vr. sauʒen] Jhesu walkinge on the see.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.850 : She many a ship and barge seigh Seillynge hir cours.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21074 : Þat erth..Men sais [Göt: seis] vprisand fra þe grund.\n?a1425 Const.Masonry(1) (Roy 17.A.1)753 : When thou syst any mon drynkynge, That taket hed to thy carpynge, Sone anonn thou sese thy tale.\nc1450 In a valey (Lamb 853)12 : His herte blood y siʒ bledinge.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)114/14 : Sawyst thou ony knyght rydynge thys way?\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.20.13a : He..sawʒ þe publican whilk he knew for a wrecche knokkynde on his breste.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)49/5 : When þay syghen þe sterre comyng aʒeyne, þay wer gretly ioyet.\na1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)197/19 : In his wakyng he seey bodily a sterre schynyng in the dore of his celle.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.357 : Zenocrates seygh oon i-lad to þe honging.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.848 : Thow saw [vrr. sawe, seghe, sawhe] thy child yslayn bifore thyne eyen.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.3.55 : Thow seye [vr. saye] thi two sones maked conseileris.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)176b/a : Þe maner of sublimacioun maie not be..knowen but ʒif a man sawe hem ofte tymes sublimed.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)187 : Thei heeren credible seers and next heerers reporte and telle what thei presentli sien and herden so doon.\na1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)71b : Suche as neuere sigh men woundid or slayn..at þe firste byholdynge þey waxeþ agryse.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)5/29 : Bifore his iʒen he seeþ redily greiþed þe peyne þat he schal to.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)2913 : Forte displese hurre þey dredden fulle sore For þis miracle þat þey seyn þere þus y-do.\nc1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)prol.136 : He sav [vr. say] hir martird.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)16/518 : Þer xal ʒe sene this game wel pleyd.\nc1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)170a/a : He say aman heelid of huwe his maistir þat loste the þridde partie of his brayn.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)187/12 : A man may for euyl dedys be shent, thegh othyr men See ham not done.\na1500 SLeg.Pass.(Vsp A.3)959/146 : Mony..stode & saʒe þoo mervels doyn in dede.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)14/14 : Wa is us þet we seoð þi softe leofliche lich to-luken se ladliche!\n?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)173 : He sauʒ his kurtel ispreind al wiþ blod.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)694 : Lord, whanne sey we þe affyngred so sore?\nc1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)81/63 : Þou seʒe hyne hyder and þyder ycached, Fram pylate to herode.\n(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.193 : I seigh his sleues ypurfiled at the hond With grys.\n?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.31 : Þe kyng Anlaf sauh his folk lorn.\n?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)60/12 : The whiche ston the iij Maries sawen turnen vpward whan þei comen to the sepulcre.\na1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)603 : Grette daynte he hadde The tree see fayre spradde.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)223/2 : Whan they sye hir lorde so hampred, they chaced and choppedde doune many of oure knyghtes.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)7/36 : He segh a drownet man cast vp on þe watyr.\na1500 Leg.Cross BC(1) (Wor F.172)215 : Now sigh the saide tree lift vp to the hevenes.\na1300 I-hereþ nv one (Jes-O 29)495 : Þo heo comen to ihesu crist and seyen hine ded.\na1350 Recipe Painting(1) in Archaeol.J.1 (Hrl 2253)65 : Et bote thu seo hit fin, cast out the gleyr softeleche.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)689 : Þe wiif hir sone seiʒe ded amorwe.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)839 : Me þinkeþ ich se a seg a-slepe here bi-side.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1505 : Þemperour..seie him so sekly þat he ded semed.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.25.37 : Lord, whenne syʒen we thee hungry..whenne forsothe seien [WB(2): sayn] we thee herberlesse?\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.645 : Open heueded he hir say Lokyng out at his dore vpon a day.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)801 : Þai sagh ham self al bare.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)6.328 : Whan ʒe se þe sonne amys..Þanne shal deth withdrawe.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.93 : Diomede..saugh [vr. saught] the folk of Troie aweye.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2693 : Of[t] I see suche losengours Fatter than abbatis or priours.\n?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)15/10 : Whan the knyght saugh hire in þat forme so hidous & so horrible, he fleygh awey.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)497 : Parys saugh his bole doun.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)2474 : Ʒe shulle fynd my body þere y-wys As hole lygyng as euer aliue ʒe hit seye.\na1450 12 PTrib.(3) (Bod 423)49/12 : No man spak to him a worde, for thai seyen his sorwe so gret.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)15/15 : She sawe hym fair, sanguyn, broune, and high.\na1475 *Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)30b : Rube þe vayne wele also far as þu mayst se þe vayne blewe or rede.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)196 : Whan Gaheries saugh hym-self hooll and sounde..he was right gladde.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)9376 : None shulde shamed haue ben Naked to haue ben seen.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)291 : Esten he sag in paradis Adam and eue in mike pris.\nc1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)4540 : Wiþ-outen colour his neb he seþ.\nc1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)3 : Mi fruit I seo in blodi bleo, Among his fon.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.214 : I haue seyn hym in sylke and somme tyme in russet.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1599 : I have ek seyn with teris al depeynted Youre lettre.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)47/27 : My dowtyr, Bryde, say me neuyr in þis wyse.\nc1440(c1350) Octav.(1) (Thrn)129/1030 : Þay sawe [vr. sye] Florent on lyfe.\na1450 12 PTrib.(3) (Bod 423)115/3 : He..sye his peple in meschef of seruage of Egipte.\nc1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)3.1383 : Your swete spouse bad I shuld it ʒow leere, Whom ye in flessh now ful lat sayn.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)34/181 : Hym were bettyr to be sayn on lyve be nyth ne day.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)18/15 : All þe dyscypull..haden seen hym on lyue.\n1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)7451 : Thou woldest..haue sworne, Whan thou him saugh in thylke araye, That he..Was tho become a Iacobyn.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2532 : Quen he sesse [Dub: seys] vs sike a sowme sare will he drede.\nWith clause as obj.: (a) introduced by conj. that: to see with the eyes (that sb. or sth. does sth., that sth. is so, etc.), see visual evidence; ~ at eie; (b) with that omitted: to see (sb. is sth., sb. or sth. do sth., sb. has not come, etc.); ~ with eie; (c) introduced by a conj. other than that, an indef. conjunctive adv. or pron., etc.: to see (how sb. or sth. does sth., where sb. or sth. is, when sb. does sth., what one is, etc.); ~ with eie(n; also of the eye.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6179 : He sey [B: seyʒe] þat me slou is folc aboute in eche syde.\nc1330(c1250) Floris (Auch)628 : Þan seʒ he wel sone anon þat on was a man, þat oþer a womman.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)385 : Þu sext, man, wel aperteliche, Þat þe sunne haþ brihtnesse muche.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1400 : He caughte a greet mirour And saugh [vrr. seegh, sauhe] that chaunged was al his colour.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.155 : Scottes..syhe þat þe Pictes were lasse þan þe Scottes.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.33 : A good man aloweþ it nouʒt þat may drede þat me wolde doo to hemself as he seeþ [vr. sueþ] þat me doþ to oþere.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1059 : Ye shul wel seen at eye That I wol doon a maistrie er I go.\nc1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)494 : Adam..loked on Gamelyn and say þat he was wroth.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)85/25 : Pluto, Lucifer, Cerebrus & Acharon..saugh þat þe officers of þe helly peynes lefte and ceecid.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)225 : He siʒ that the busch brent.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)31/13 : Whan we se that ye have foughtyn with hem longe, than woll we com on freysshly.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.109 : We seen at eye þat meen offryn to þe preist in cherche.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)9/12 : Þus, when Egeas segh þat he was ded, he ʒeode homward.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)3352 : Ne sixtou [B: suxt þou] wel icham aliue?\nc1330(c1250) Floris (Auch)450 : Ʒhe [read: he] seghʒ [vr. sawʒ] hit nas nowth he [read: ʒhe].\nc1350 NPass.(Rwl C.655)133/565 : Ihesu saic þis was don.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)3910 : Þe king saw his segges were slawe him bi-fore.\nc1390 Ʒhit is god (Vrn)11 : Openly we seo wiþ eiʒe Þis warnynges beoþ wonder & fele.\nc1390 Susan.(Vrn)132 : Nou were þis domus men derf drawen in derne, Whiles þei seo [vrr. saw, syghe] þat ladi was laft al hire one.\na1400(c1250) Floris (Eg 2862)127 : He saw she was nouʒt ycoome.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)9327 : Ne sagh [Trin-C: Sawe] yee noght..þe wand bar lef?\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)14330 : Þey seye þe force ʒede al awey.\na1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)517 : Whenne he seyʒ þer com no moo, He rod agayn þer he com ffroo.\na1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)503 : The Stiward came and sawe all was amys.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)17291 : Þu ne mahht nohht..sen wiþþ flæshlic eʒhe Fra wheþennwarrd ne whanne he comm Inntill þe witess herrte.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)24/21 : Þa seh ha hwer set an unsehen unwiht.\na1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)103 : He set uuar is fet stoden and is hunden blodie.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)2591 : Ne sehte [read: sehste], leofue broþer, hou breþiþ þis Frence?\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)3740 : Hii seʒen hou Iulius Cesar faht alse wilde bor.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 1.39 : Thei camen and syʒen [WB(2): sayn] where he dwelte.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Cor.2.9 : That yʒe syʒ not..what thingis God made redy bifore to hem that louen him.\nc1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)353 : I say whon þat my derlyng dide.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1186 : Ye been right hoot; I se wel how ye swete.\nc1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)285 : His broþer seih wher he cam with þe grete rowte.\na1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)1899-1900 : Sese, madame, how þe [read: he] prikes, And sese also how fele he stikes [read: strikes].\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)7/25 : Þanne nedith þe not to borwe a merour to see what þi self art.\na1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)59a : He myʒte see wiþ his eyʒe where the perelles were.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)1426 : Leke as god was on þe cresse, þey syen as þaw his wondys dud blede Into þe chaleys.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1433 : Oure athils be-hind saʒe þar he entred.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)8/214 : Yowre servaunt bicome y..the first tyme that y see How ye excellid alle othir in bewte.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)152/4550 : I wolde ye sie How so that y Shal ly pynyng.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)156/17 : Þei se it as cleerly bi resoun as þei seen what is white or blacke wiþ her iʒen.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)119/7 : He ʒode nygh and sech how an horrybull neddyr..had vmbeclyppyd a lyon.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)49 : Than schul we see whedyr they wyl bowe or nay.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)9451 : Þei [angels] toke to hem no body, Shulde no man see where þei wore.\n(a) With noun, pron., or appositive hit as obj. and obj. clause: to see (sb., that she is fair; sb., how they do sth.; a sight, how sth. happens; etc.); (b) with indef. conjunctive adv. and inf. as obj.: to be able to see (where to go).\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)6696 : Þe Sarraʒins þo it sewe, Hou þat men her folk hit And hou fele fel in litel fit.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.12.14 : Egypcyens seʒyn [vr. sawen] þe womman, þat sche was full fayre.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)1.5 : Sest [vrr. seest, seyst, seys, sixt, seo] þou þis peple, How besy þei ben aboute þe mase?\n?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.(Göt Hist 740)20987 : Þai sagh and bihelde Þar kyng, how he to clai was felde.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)12.397 : They Syen Alle the Ost of Tholome, How that they leyen In Al Manere degre.\nc1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)427/23 : Þe knyghtis of Rome saw Vaspasyan, at he was a nobyl man and a redy to cowncell.\nc1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)142/12 : I saugwe her, þat sche..boldly..behold into euiry mannys face.\nc1450(a1400) Chev.Assigne (Clg A.2)26 : Se ʒe þe ʒonder pore womman, how þat she is pyned With twynlenges two.\na1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)2800 : The knyghtis mette As men it sye, how they sette there dyntis sare.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)49 : We sawe hem that helde the mawmetes, how they enclyned and worschyd Jhesu.\na1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)4 : Whenne þe blynde ledeth þe blynde, In-to þe dyche þey fallen boo, For þey ne sen whare-by to go.\n(a) To be able to see with the eyes; have or employ the faculty of sight; also fig.; also, jocularly, of a cheese [quot.: ?1440]; ~ in sight, ~ with eie, ~ with (bodiliche, fleshlich) eien; ppl. seinge, able to see; also, while seeing [quot.: a1450, 2nd]; also, as noun: persons able to see; (b) as thou seest, as you see, as you can see; as we sene, so we haven sene, as ye mouen ~, as ye sene (at eie, as men mighten ~, etc.; (c) of the eye: to be able to see; also fig.; ppl. seinge, able to see; (d) in name of an allegorical character.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5716 : Forrþi maʒʒ itt [heart] sen to gan Wiþþ all þatt rihhte weʒʒe.\na1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)16 : Ne michte ich seon bi-fore me for smike ne for miste.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)708 : Of men & wimmen þat buþ nuþe, þat goþ & seoþ & spekeþ wiþ muþe, Ne buþ so faire in here gladnesse, So hi were in here sorinesse.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3108 : He adden ligt and sowen wel.\na1350 Iesu suete is (Hrl 2253)3 : Al þat may wiþ eʒen se haueþ no suetnesse aʒeynes þe.\n(c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.504 : Taste it wel and stoon thow shalt it fynde, Syn that thow seest nat with thyne eyen blynde.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.551 : Oon of hem was blynd and myghte nat se.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)85a/b : Þe condicioun of seynge men is bettir þan þe condicioun of blynde men.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13678-9 : Þai þat noght seis [Frf: sese] suld se, And..þe seant [Frf: seande; Göt: seand] blind suld be.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)22.180 : Blessed moten þei beo..Þat neuere shullen seo in syht as þou seost nouthe.\na1425 NHom.(3) Pass.(Hrl 4196)3/52* : He gert dom speke & blind men se.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.160 : Yf a chese is drie, Hit is auice, and so is many an iye If hit see with; that comth yf sonnyng brendde.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)61/10 : Whan the soule scholde go oute to see, here, speke, fele, or taste, it scholde haue before him fere for his vsschere.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)21/1 : So we wolde do if we sawʒ al cleerly wiþ oure gostly iʒen as we seen wiþ oure fleischly iʒen; But..we se noʒt but wiþ oure bodily iʒen, as doumbe beestis.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)29/4 : We schul loue God in alle oure werkis, seand..þenkand, wakand.\nc1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)4.1381,1386 : 'Thei that see,' he seyth, 'shul be ful blynde'..The seeynge men be-tokene ʒow, I-wis.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)132/3945 : Alle my lijf in payne y must endure And to biwayle the tyme y evir se.\n?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)629-30 : Wold god..That the eye, with whyche I se, Had nat seyn nomore ne mynne.\na1500(c1400) St.Erk.(Hrl 2250)293 : Þer sittes my soule þat se may no fyrre.\na1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)176 : Ðe mire is magti, mikel ge swinkeð In sumer & in softe weder, So we ofte sen hauen.\na1325 SLeg.Brendan (Corp-C 145)57 : Þis lond is half in þis side, as ʒe seoþ wel wide.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)2436 : Ʒe ssolle vnderstonde þat in þe firmament beþ Planetes yliche clere sterren seuene, as ʒe seþ [B vr. sene].\na1350 Ichot a burde in a (Hrl 2253)18 : He is blosme opon bleo..wiþ celydoyne ant sauge, ase þou þiself sys.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)5809 : He..spet on þe fant, as þow her sysst.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5335 : God men, i am, als yee now her se, An ald man.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)12.422 : Of bothe partyes ded there been Bet than Fiftene thowsend, As men miht seen.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)35.274 : Owre semblaunce han they, As we sen here.\na1450(?a1390) Mirk Fest.Suppl.(Cld A.2)289/2 : As ʒe here all seyne, a man and a woman ben weddut togydur.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)285 : Nakyd I am, as ʒe may se.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.357 : For, as ʒe sen at eye, in tyme of tempest..as longe as þe rote of þe tre kepith hym faste..so longe þe tre schal nout fallyn.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)21/12 : As ʒe here and sethe, þys day all holy chyrche syngythe.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.CY.(Manly-Rickert)G.1418 : If that youre eyen kan nat seen aright, Looke that youre mynde lakke noght his sight.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)177/34 : Þe body leseþ his feelyng, for þe iʒe seynge seeþ not, þe eere heerynge heereþ not.\nc1450 Metham Physiog.(Gar 141)126/26 : The syte..ys the rounde blak spot in the myddys off yche seeyng eye.\na1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)3306 : 'Certys,' quod she [Reason]..'To sen, myn Eyen ben to blynde.'\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)10.19 : Þe cunstable..haþ fyue faire sones..Sire se [vrr. see, seo] wel, & sey wel, & here wel þe hende, [etc.].\n(a) To look, observe, watch; haven eien to ~, have eyes with which to observe; (b) impv. se, sene, seis, etc.: look! take a look! lö behold! se her; (c) ~ in, to look on (sb.); ~ in-to, look into (heaven); -- used fig.; also, look on (sb.); ~ of, look on (sb.), watch (an action); ~ of with eien; ~ on, look on (sb. or sth.); also, see visual evidence of (sorrow); also fig.; ~ on thurgh fleshes eie-sight; ~ ther-of (ther-on); ~ to, look at (sth.); also with both obj. and obj. clause; ~ upon, look on (sb. or sth.); also of the eyes.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)84/586 : Ha..sehen as þe engles wið smirles of aromaz smireden hire wunden.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2170 : It semet wel ðat ge spies ben, And in-to ðis lond cumen to sen.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.5.5 : Erly I shal neeyʒ stonden to þee & seen.\na1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)152 : Herkens, hende, unto my spell..I sal say right als I sagh.\na1425 WBible(1) (CC 145)Ezek.8.10 : I gon in, saʒ, & lö\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)37/11 : Þis is a gret vilanye, who so hadde eyʒen to se.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)37.662 : There slepten Alle thre..Tyl on the Morwe they myhten sen hem Abowte.\na1450 7 Sages(3) (Cmb Dd.1.17)781 : Toward the credyl as he [snake] suythe, The good grew-hond lay and syʒe.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)355/2 : Pes now youre blaberyng..what, lousy begchis, mow ye not se? owre worthy prynsis..are gaderid.\nc1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)50.6 : Se! for ich am conceiued in wickednesses.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)17797 : Gas, seis nu, for þe hali-dom, And yee sal find þair tumbs tome.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21391 : Constantine, luc up and se Til heuen-ward.\na1400 Cursor (Vsp A.3)991/447* : Gropes & sees oueralle, and knaw þat it be.\na1425 Adam & E.(3) (Wht)80/16 : Se, Adam is maad as oon of us, knowynge good and yuel.\n(c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)76/332 : Cum nere, syr, and sene.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)128/23 : Se, her is v s., & lede hir fast owt of þis cuntre.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1914 : Se, here I send ʒow my seele with salutis of ioye.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)17632 : Se here, he has no hede.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)71/25 : Se her, a mervellous fair knyght!\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)77/142 : Se! now blysse oure lord All þat oure lordys servauntys be.\na1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)2745 : Se..A virgyn shal conceyue i-wys A sone.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)17316 : Ne nohht ne mahht tu sen onn himm Þurrh flæshess eʒhe sihhþe.\n?c1250 PMor.(Eg 613(1))388 : Of him to sene nis no sed.\n?a1300 Maximian (Dgb 86)225 : Nis non so modi kniʒt, Þat him ne beþ so I-diiʒt, Wen helde him sieþ on.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)394 : On sundri ðhenken he to ben, And neiðere on oðer sen.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3901 : Quat stungen man so sag ðor-on, Ðat werk him sone al was vn-don.\na1350 Ichot a burde in a (Hrl 2253)19 : Þat syht vpon þat semly to blis he is broht.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)389 : Hit greueþ euere mannes eiʒe Inwardliche on hire [sun] to se.\n?a1350 ME Verse in Anglia 92p.78 : Þou þat syst op-on þe tre, y rede þou be war by me.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)223 : He ne wist..whiderward he schuld seche to se of hem more.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)759 : Will[i]am to þe window witterli miʒt sene ʒif meliors wiþ hire maydenes in meling þere sete.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 19.37 : Thei schulen se in to [WB(2): in] whom they piʒten thorw.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)20090 : How might i on þis soru se!\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)2040 : Ouer a water passed hij beeþ; Aiþer ost to oþer seeþ.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.130 : O goodly, fresshe free, That with the stremes of youre eyen cleere Ye wolde somtyme frendly on me see.\na1425 Here begynnes a new (Roy 17.C.17)56 : The Magdalene..Sayt Peter & Jone to take hede If thai myght..Of Ihesu outhere se or here.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)99/5 : I say of the bowis with myn eyen.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3128 : Þe lomb..vanysshed away þo from herre seyʒt, þat þey seyen þerof after nomore.\na1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)270 : He came out of a valaye For to se of theyr playe.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)191/5697 : Yet haue y remembraunce As where and how y last did on yow se.\n?c1450 St.Cuth.(Eg 3309)3133 : All þat herde and sow of þis, Cuthbert halynes þai bliss.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)39/2 : He sigh in to hevyn, þat he had long afore desired.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)60/16 : Contemplacioun is no þing ellis to mene but a sight be þe wiche a soule seith in to heven.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)152/2 : Saw ye of Arthure my brother?\nc1450(a1400) Chev.Assigne (Clg A.2)65 : Sone, paye þe with þy Qwene and se of her berthe.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)7836 : Þe yʒen shewen þe eeris anoon Þe þing þat þei seen vpon.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)11712 : Men vpon thi visage see.\n1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)3597 : Fro him to withdrawe your presence..hath do to him great offence That ye not wolde upon him se.\nIn phrases using the inf. or infl. inf.: (a) fair (god, smal, sorweful, etc.) to ~, fair (good, small, sorrowful, etc.) to look at; hidous (loveli, meke, etc.) for to ~, hideous (lovely, meek, etc.) to look at; lik an asshe to ~, lik a daies-ie for to ~; (b) ben joie (merveille, a wonder sight, etc.) to ~, ben reuthe for to ~, to be a joy (marvel, wondrous sight, pity, etc.) to see or observe; -- also without ben; (c) fair (lothli, semeli, etc.) on to ~, fair (ugly, seemly, etc.) to look at; grisli on (upon) to ~; of bras upon to ~; sondri to ~ upon; (d) with nouns and pronouns: for) to ~, to look at; for to ~ to, to ~ on.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2989 : Gnattes hird ðor ðicke up-wond, Smale to sen and sarp on bite.\na1350 Iesu suete is (Hrl 2253)89 : Iesu, al þat is fayr to se..to leten me graunte.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1777 : Smockes hadde sche and y, And hir was solwy to sen.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)150/11 : Þe þridde him makeþ briʒte to zyenne and uol of wytte, and þeruore hit hatte þe ʒefþe of wytte.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1611 : Þe siʒt was ful semly and louely for to se.\nc1390 Susan.(Vrn)73 : Þe rose..Iþeuwed with þe þorn trinaunt to sene.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3202 : He was sleigh..And lyk a mayden meke for to see.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)9091 : Þat shrifte was sorweful to sene.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)9731 : Þis world brood & longe to sen [Ld: seme] hastou made fadir þourʒe me to ben.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)158 : Ful hidous was she forto sene.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)2649 : Ded wex hire hew, And lyk an ash to sene.\na1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)521 : Wee to martis of Braban charged bene Wyth Englyssh clothe, full gode and feyre to seyne.\nc1450(c1386) Chaucer LGW Prol.(1) (Benson-Robinson)224 : The white coroune above the grene Made hire lyk a daysie for to sene.\nc1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)39 : He soiorned..With many a Baron & Kniʒtis ful boold That roialle were and semly to sene.\n?c1450 Iff a man (Add 17866)310/123 : Þe golde-flour is good to sene.\nc1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)693 : Lö þe pryme-rosis, how fressh þey been to seen!\nc1450(c1400) Emare (Clg A.2)423 : Hyt ys an erles þowʒtur of ferre londe, That semely ys to sene.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)69/59 : Huy harleden him wel filliche, þat schame it was to se.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)12 : Englo[n]de is vol inoʒ of frut & ek of tren, Of wodes & of parkes, þat ioye hit is to sen.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.914 : She hadde swowned with a deedly cheere, That it was routhe for to seen and here.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.1132 : The Greks..Here Hors of Bras let faire dihte, Which was to sen a wonder sihte.\nc1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)329 : Foul that lyveth by sed sat on the grene, And that so fele that wonder was to sene.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1034 : He brast out for to wepe So tenderly that routhe it was to sene [vr. seene].\na1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)501 : She rente hir here, a wonder thyng to see.\na1500 Galawnt pride (RwlPoet 34)31 : Theyr hosyn of red..With a whytte bulwerk abowtt þe kne; A schrewe syʒtt ytt ys to se -- Huff, a galawnt!\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1985 : There a tempest hom toke..A myst & a merkenes, was meruell to se.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)163 : Ðe corporeals sole and unshapliche, hire handcloðes and hire bord makede wite and lustliche on to siene.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2659 : So faiger he was on to sen Ðat migte non man modi ben.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3030 : Bi-foren pharaun nolden he ben, So woren he lodelike on to sen.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3247 : She was ful moore blisful on to see Than is the newe perionette tree.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.610 : The tharmes, The wombe, and al doun to the kne, Of bras thei were upon to se.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)22506 : Þe ferþ signe..Sal be ful griseli on to see [Trin-C: vpon to se].\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)19.192 : O speche and o spirit spryngeþ out of alle, Of o wit, of on wil were neuere a-twynne; And sondry to seo vpon, solus deus he hoteþ.\na1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)52/51 : Ful vgly was he on to se.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)2425 : Phillis..fayrer on to sene Than is the flour ageyn the bryghte sonne.\n(?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)9.661 : Sixe childre hadde this famous queen..Wonder semli and goodli on to seen.\nc1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)1177 : That swete wyght..is so semely on to see.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)113 : Þer nas contesse ne quene So semelych on to sene Þat myʒte be her pere.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3576 : Crist wass æfre swillc to sen..Þatt gode ʒeorrndenn himm to sen & æfre shulenn ʒeorrnenn.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1700 : A geant ys maked briggeward þat symeþ þe fend to see.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1466 : Myn herte and alle my lymes been as grene As laurer thurgh the yeer is for to sene.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)7446 : Gret he [Goliath] was wit-all..And semed sathan on to sei [Göt: Sathanas to sy].\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)672 : Non ne mighte for gold ne fe Out of þe schip gete ought to se.\nc1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)150 : Hym semyde for to see to of sexty ʒere elde.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)735 : Hys hed schall of be raft And sette vp-on a sper schaft To se yn lengþe and brede.\n(a) To discover (sth.) by observation or examination; determine (sth.) from visual evidence; ~ ivele, err in the observation of (sth.); ~ with eie(n; (b) with clause as obj. introduced by conj. that; -- also without that; also with clause understood after question; (c) with clause as obj. introduced by a conj. other than that or an indef. conjunctive adv. or pron.; also with clause understood after question; (d) to check by observation, see for oneself; ~ with eien; (e) to be aware of the presence of (sb.) by touching; (f) to learn by experience.\na1350 Prov.Hend.(Hrl 2253)40 : Such lores ase þou lernest, After þat þou sist & herest, Mon, in þyne ʒouþe, Shule þe on elde folewe.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)192 : Þei..to þis treos wenten, þei weore semeli bi-neoþe; þei mihte not seo þe heiʒþe.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3919 : He kan wel in myn eye seen a stalke, But in his owene he kan noght seen a balke.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)11672 : Maria, me thinc ferli o þe, þat se [Frf: seys; Göt: ses] þe gret heght o þis tre.\n(a1402) Trev.Dial.MC (Hrl 1900)22/7 : Whanne he siʒ to myche money in þe tresory, þe kynges writer & þe bischop..tolde þe money þat was founden.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)43b/a : Willelmus..and lamfrank and henricus..sawe euel her anothomie, for þei seien þat os passulare is vnder þe bone þat is cleped lauda.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)62a/a : When he is putte aweie, see þen þe anothomie off þe stomake.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)103/33 : Of þe..tre þou say neiþir bigynnyng ne eendyng.\na1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)85/15 : Þei..beþ bi-giled with..wicked tacches þat men mowe noʒt redeliche se with her yʒen.\n?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)133 : His skyn is spotty, wherfor men may se be þis signe and proue þe maner of venym.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)19a/a : Y seie, aftir þat J sauʒ and felde, þat by myn vndirstondynge þer beþ sixe principal bonys of þe heed.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)46a/b : Þe schap of þese membris is diuers, as it is openly seen with yʒe.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)96 : Þou art to ʒyng For-to done a good fyʒtynge, Be awʒt þat Y can se.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)248 : The kynge Brangore sye the grete nombre of saisnes.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)32a/10 : To þe eyen comythe veynis þat mowe not be seene nor felt.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 1.46 : Nathanael seide to him, 'Of Nazareth may sum good thing be?' Philip seith to him, 'Come and se.'\na1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)215/12 : I siʒ wel þat þei hadden her bigynnynge of þe scolle boon.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)106a/a : Ʒif he sowe þat vertue were stronge, he lete þe pacient blede on þe daie.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)164a/b : Ʒif þat alle be not resolued..& þu se þat it begynneþ for to mature, þen helpe for to maturen it wiþ oþer medicines.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)91 : Men seþ wel þat þe see seseþ and stinteþ But whan þe wind on þe watur þe wawus arereþ.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)932 : Of his ribbis men mowe þere se Fourti feete of lengthe is he.\na1350 St.Marina (Hrl 2253)55 : Nou wend & seh wher hit be, ant bring hit bifore me.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 6.38 : Hou many loues han ʒe? Go ʒe and se [vr. seiʒeth].\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)33 : Be þe fruit may scilwis se O quat vertu is ilka tre.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14310 : 'Quar haf yee his bode laid?' 'Sir..cum forth and se.'\nc1400 St.Alex.(3) (LdMisc 622)25/142 : Þere miʒth he sen in tour[na]ment what kniʒth was douʒttiest of dent.\n(c1400) Gower PP (Eg 2862)192 : A man mai sen on everi side How Cristes feith is every dai assailed.\n(c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)111/5 : Mychael and Poule þay went in-fere To se what payns in hel were þer.\n(1428) Doc.in Sur.Soc.852 : The Mayr sent of yam to smyths to se be yayr crafte if yai war abill to putt in werk.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.410 : Hewe hit with an axe and sene If hit be not in thegge.\na1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)2.23.46 : Thilke lyne must hange evene perpendiculer..and than shalt thou seen yf A sitte evene over the pool.\na1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)512 : The aunterous..houyd stylle for to seyn Who durste iouste wiþ hym more.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)22a/26 : When..the brekyng of þe scull shewith hym, se if the boon..be of good restoryng vnder the hole.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)291 : Noe sente þe Rauen forto se If ony lond mighte owhere be.\na1350 Most i ryden (Hrl 2253)60 : Hyre tyttes aren anvnder bis as apples tuo of Parays, ouself ʒe mowen seo.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.51.35 : Seeþ with ʒoure eʒen, for a litil I trauailede & I fond to me myche reste.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1334 : I haue do so as ye comaunded me; And if ye vouche sauf, ye may go se.\na1400 Cursor (Vsp A.3)987/151* : He is risen & not here, be-hald þe stede & see!\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)71b/b : Who þat wille enserche and see, he maie bere witnesse of treuþe.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)11845 : He shal bidde hem grope and see To knowe witterly þat it is he.\n?a1425 WBible(2) Gloss.Ruth (Cld E.2)3.8 : He siʒ a womman, that is, knew bi touching, for in nyʒt, he myʒte not knowe bi siʒt.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)466 : We and our elders old, Þus þan haue we sain.\n(a) To encounter (sb. or sth.) in one's personal experience; have personal knowledge of (sb. or sth.), know of; witness (sth.); ~ never; (b) with noun or pron. and inf. or p.ppl. as compound obj.; (c) with clause as obj.; also with inf. phrase as subj. [last quot.]; (d) with obj. and obj. clause.\nc1275 Hwan þu sixst on leode (Clg A.9)1 : Hwan þu sixst on leode King þat is wilful..Wo þere þeode.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)1611 : He..let pulte out is owe eye..Vol vewe kinges me sucþ þat it wolde do.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2931 : For þai nan bot þair fader [Lot] sau, þai wend all men ware don o dau.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)9104 : Þat sare, þat scam, þat martiring Was neuer sene on suilk a king!\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)9.150 : Impe on an ellerne and if þine apple be swete, Mochel merueile..Þat bryngeth forth any barne but if he be þe same..selde seestow other.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)13 : Men shal nat wenen everythyng a lye, For that he say it nat of yore ago.\n(1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)3727 : Swech maner braunches had he seyn but seld.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)40/26 : Yoo..fonde many maneres of lettres that had not be seen afoore.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1802 : I sett ʒowe ane ensample -- ʒe se it all daye.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)714 : Leuere he had bi hir haue leie Than alle the good that euer he seie.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)12/7 : He was the best taght that any man sen in any place.\n?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)454 : A pyt shal be myne herytage; In erthe gete I non other wage Off all rychesse that man may se.\nc1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)158b/a : Ne as touchinge þe principal cure J siʒ neuere man þat brakide þe drynke but oon.\nc1450(a1400) Chev.Assigne (Clg A.2)216 : I seyʒe neuur none [horse]..but by þe mater of bokes.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)949 : Ʒet neuer þey ne seyʒ Man þat myʒte dreyʒ to justy wyth Gyffroun.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)179/1 : Þeras þe hed abode, anon sprang a fayr walle, þeras was neuer sayn on before.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)110/30 : Yette had thei as grette trouble duryng their reigne as he that þou seist now in thi tyme.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)6.23 : I sauʒ [vrr. Sauh, sayhe] neuere palmere..Axen aftir hym.\na1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)51 : Þat byheld þai al bydene, For þai saw þam never so On high dayes to chamber go.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)96a/a : He seiþ þat he see neuer man die þat vsed þis cure.\na1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)117/432 : Þus haue j seie men kepe here hors from cornus.\na1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)121/480 : Y haue seye make [?read: made] a plaster of hey askes ytempered with pysse y-leide to þe corn til þat he a-rise.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)399 : Forþei ne se we no seg sodainly deie.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)88b/b : In sich maner of woundis þer beþ fewe seen to be recouerid or ellis noon.\n1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)17/27 : It was grete shame..to see suche a boye to have a rule of soo noble a reaume.\na1500 Chartier Quad.(2) (Rwl A.338)212/30 : It is so nough that within a fewe dayes men might see a prince..estraunged from his enheritaunce.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)817 : Kindeliche ofte men seþ, Wid water men wassheþ þat foule beþ.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.733 : I knowe also, and alday heere and se, Men loven wommen al biside hire leve.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)193/28 : Þou seest þat a fadir biddiþ his childe forto in eche werke daie go to scole.\na1500(a1400) Cleges (Adv 19.1.11)205 : Abowʒt þis tyme i sey neuer ere That any tre schuld frewʒt bere, As for as i haue sowʒt.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)25/7 : Ʒe seen wele, good men, by experyment al day, þat a fayre chyld drawet loue of þo þat sene hyt.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)34a/6 : This maner helyng is full dyseyuable, for selden when it lastithe þat it ne comythe aʒeyn, bot I haue sene þat it comythe not aʒeyne.\na1500 ?Ros Belle Dame (Cmb Ff.1.6)361 : To chalange loue by ryght was neuer sayne.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)17.211 : Þow seest [C: suxt; vrr. sixte, sixt, sest] some tyme sodeynliche a torche, The blase þere-of yblowe out, ʒet brenneth þe weyke.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1260 : Where sen ye oon, that he ne hath laft his leef?\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)28/32 : Þow seest a gloand broond of fire, þe more he caasteþ of heete..þe lesse he haþ.\nIn comp. or sup. expressions, or with implied comparison: (a) the fairest that ever man saugh, the selcouthest man that ever yet we sei, a semeloker that ever he siʒe, etc.; ever ~ with eie (eie-sight, sight); (b) ~ ever so, ever to encounter so (dull a man); ~ ever swich, ever hear of or witness such (a way of proceeding, distress); (c) never ~ a sharper, ~ never a fairer lond, etc.; never ~ a more worshipful with eie; -- also with one or more further negatives; (d) never ~ so god a sight, ~ never man so light, ~ never-mo so fair a child, etc.; ~ never non swich, ~ never swich a stour, ~ never swich game ne gle, ~ never swich knightes, ~ never swich on, etc.; -- also with one or more further negatives; (e) ne ~ so riche feste, ~ not so mirie a compaignie, ~ not swich a bilde bold, etc.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)402 : A dere damisele to douʒter þis emperour hadde þanne, of alle fasoun þe fairest þat euer freke seiʒe.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2163 : Tvo þe bremest white beres..semede þe most to siʒt þat euer ʒut i sawe.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1192 : Ther saw he hertes with hir hornes hye, The gretteste that euere were seyn with eye.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16214 : He es þe selcuthest man þat euer yeit we sei [Frf: seye; Trin-C: seʒe].\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)83 : A semloker þat euer he syʒe Soth moʒt no mon say.\n(1420) *Doc.in Facs.Nat.MSS 139 : Yowr gret ship the Grace Dieu Is euen as redy and Is the fairest that euer man saugh.\nc1440(a1400) Awntyrs Arth.(Thrn)359 : He was the souerayneste sir..Þat euer any segge saughe or sene was with syghte [Dc: Þat euer segge had sene with his eʒe sighte].\nc1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)809 : The fayrest companye Of ladyes that evere man with ye Had seen togedres in oon place.\nc1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.50 : Here is comun the fayrist knyʒte That euyr ʒette I see with syʒte.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)202/28 : He was the foulyst wyghte that ever man sye.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)280/10 : A thirty grete knyghtes, more by a yerde than any man that ever he had sene.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)605 : A-bove alle the Castelles that euer I sigh is this the feirest.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.1604-5 : Ha, who sawh evere such a weie? Ha, who sawh evere..such destresse?\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.548 : Who sey evere or this so dul a man?\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)7968 : Ne seh neuere non cnhit non loþlichere fiht.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8143 : A uair[er] compainie neuere mon ne say.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.1033 : A fairer saw I neuere noon than she.\na1400(?c1300) Amis (Eg 2862)84 : Fairer children þan þey wesse Ne sey þey neuer ʒere.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5960 : Þan sent godd þam on a flei, A scarper neuer þai for-wit sei.\na1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)27/310 : He..let make þe walles hyʒe -- No feirer neuer man syʒe [vr. syye].\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)818 : Ful faire was myrthe, ful longe and high; A fairer man I neuere sigh.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)6443 : Y ne sey nere in al my lyue A fairer lond.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1800 : Þe halle y-paynted was: No rychere neuer þer nas Þat he hadde seye wyth eye.\na1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)9/51 : He..At peiters made A roial gret feste, A more worshipful neuer sayn with eye.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6901 : An alle mine iliue..ne sæh [Otho: seh] ich nauere ær swulche cnihtes.\n?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)285 : So fatte ne so feire sauʒ he neuere non.\nc1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)65/1127 : Ne saʒ [vr. seh] ihc neure, so ihc wene, Beggere þat were so kene.\na1325(?c1300) NPass.(Cmb Gg.1.1)1012 : Þe best was ful grisli; I ne sachʒ neuir so lodli.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)226 : So fair a siʒt of seg ne sawe he neuer are.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12246 : Na thinc can i him discreue, For sagh i neuer nan suilk mi liue.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)5709 : A griselich best he gonne fynde; So mychel seiʒ he neuere ne non swiche.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)707 : Neuer in her lyue Þay seʒe neuer no segge þat watz of suche hwez of grene.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.294 : After that hir lokynge gan she lighte, That nevere thoughte hym seen so good a syghte.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)832 : Ne sawe thou neuere man so lyght.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)2049 : So fayre a chylde, hurre þouʒt, he seye neuer mo.\nc1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9:French&Hale)34 : He is a balefulle bare; Seche on segh i neuyr are.\nc1475 Awntyrs Arth.(Tay 9)p.15 : Seche game and siche glee Seʒhe [Dc: Saʒ] he neuyr are.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)363 : I haue be in my days in many goode town, Ʒett saw I neuer such another tyllynge.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1643 : Neuer seþe Y was y-bore Ne syʒ Y come her before So redy a knyʒt to my pay.\na1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)3105 : Who had it sene wele myght saye That suche A stoure neuer he syghe.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)21 : Neuer was seyen so wyse a man.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8615 : So cruel ne so tirant ich wene no mon ne say.\n(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.764 : I saugh [vr. seegh] nat this yeer so murye a compaignye At ones in this herberwe as is now.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1157 : So riche fest no man ne say So Alisaunder held þat day.\nc1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)854 : Y trowe that evermor Nas seyn so blysful a tresor.\na1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)2772 : So fair letters saʒe he not ʒore.\nc1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)158 : Swich a bild bold..Say i nouʒt..siþþe a longe tyme.\n(a) To read (a book, letter, charter, an inscription, etc.); ~ forth over, read (a book) through, peruse; (b) to learn (sth.) by reading, discover by reading; read (sth. in a book, sth. inscribed on the forehead of sb.); look (sth.) up; -- also with clause as obj.; ~ writen (setten), writen ~; (c) to see (a story) depicted in a painting; see (sb. do sth.) in a painting; (d) to read; learn by reading, discover by looking up in a book; ~ in, look in (a book); read in (a story, words); also, fig. be able to read in (the book of conscience); ~ of, read about (sth.); ~ upon, look upon or in (a book); ~ writen.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.71 : William Malmesbury seih neuere þat book.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.1124 : I..Do alle maner men to wite That hiere and se this lettre write That..Hier lith a kinges doghter ded.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1124 : At Orliens in studie a book he say Of magyk naturel.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)6672 : He braak þe seal and þe lettre seie.\n(a1402) Trev.DCur.(Hrl 1900)56/30 : Wolde God þat þei syʒe inwardlych Seynt Austyns bokes.\n(1426) Paston1.6 : I sey yowr lettre and þe jnstrument.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)256 : Whan we sihen þi sonde wiþ þi sel prented, We kenden þi covaitise.\nc1450(?a1400) LChart.Chr.B (Cmb Ii.4.9)48/19 : Telle ʒe it in All thys londe To other þat thys boke haue not seyne [vrr. sayne, sowen, swane].\nc1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)400/33 : He had a roll in his hand, & Eufemyan wolde hafe takyn it & sene it.\n(1455) Doc.in Nicholl Ironmongers26 : To all maner people these present lettres seying or heryng, We, Lancastre Kyng of Armes, sende gretyng.\n(1465) Paston1.298 : As for all youre othere evydens..there hath nor shall no man sen hem tyll ye com hom.\n(1467) Ordin.Wor.380 : The keye shalle remayne wt oon of the chamberleyns, to be redy yf..desire be hadd..for the seid boke of articles to be redde or seyn.\na1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)206/12 : Sche had say the charters.\n?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.417 : He see neuer the boke of the gestes of Britones.\nc1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)prol.55 : Beholde þe book onys..And if ʒe sauere sum-dell, se it forth ouere.\n1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)13/2 : Whan they sawe the scripture som assayed suche as wold have ben kyng.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)2 : This boke is made þat lay-men shuld it se.\nc1330(c1250) Floris (Auch)288 : Þer man mai sen on þe ston Mochel of þis werldes wisdom.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.6 : Þat is bitokned by þe buscyne, þat amonesteþ hem þat þai done in werk al þat þai seen in holy writt.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.219 : What þou sixt [vr. suxt] in my forheede i wrete, prynte it everiche nyʒt in þyn owne forheed.\nc1390 Mirror St.Edm.(3) (Vrn)p.240 : Whuche-maner Mon schal seo Godes wille in holy writ.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.62 : Who so that wol his large volume seke..Ther may he seen the large wounde wyde of Lucresse.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.1169 : Redeth Senek..Ther shul ye seen expres that no drede is That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)1603 : Alle þat þis worde here & sene Woot what hit is to mene.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)7.219 : Sapience seiþ þe same, I saiʒ [vr. sawʒe] it in þe bible.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)10.149 : So seiþ þe sauter, se [vrr. see, seo, seyth] it whanne þe likiþ.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.454 : Augustyn..Sayde þus in a sarmoun, I seigh it writen ones, 'Ecce ipsi idioti rapiunt celum, [etc.].'\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)698 : Ʒet saytz a gome, Dauid in Sauter, if euer ʒe seʒ hit, 'Lorde, þy seruaunt draʒ neuer to dome.'\n(c1426) Audelay Poems (Dc 302)6/138 : In þe gospel þou sist Þat God be law byndus y-fyre.\nc1440(?c1350) Mirror St.Edm.(4) (Thrn)26/15 : In Haly Writte..þou sese whatte þou doo & what þou sall lefe.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)5 : In þis boke þay may see sett Þe suthfast rewle of sant Benett.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)20/23 : Se now heraftir why oure Lord lerneþ vs in þe gospel to say, 'Pater noster.'\nc1450 Form Excom.(3) (Dc 60)107/90 : In the gret charter also Thou myʒt se many mo.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)14/13 : Profis of þe trouþis..þou maist se..in þe first partie of 'þe folewer to þe donet'.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)20/15 : Not verrili..or fully ben alle moral vertues..tauʒt in þo ij tablis, as may be seen bi processe in þis same book.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)128/12 : Whate myschefe folwyth of chynchry..ye schal sene hit aftyr in this boke.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)145 : In the seconde chapiter may be sayne The nyce Ioys therof with the grete peyne.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2073 : Yet peynted was a litel forther moor..Ther saugh I many another wonder storie.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)151 : First sawgh I the destruction Of Troye.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)198 : Ther saugh I thee, cruel Juno, That art daun of Jupiteres wif..Renne and crye.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)33/5 : Sleuþe and uoryetinge blendeþ þe zeneʒeres þet hi ne zyeþ naʒt ine þe boc of hire inwytte.\n(c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.86 : First wolde I yow the name of Seinte Cecilie Expowne, as men may in hir storie se.\nc1390 Mirror St.Edm.(1) (Vrn)24 : Heere schul ʒe so of godus wille.\na1400(?c1300) LFMass Bk.(Roy 17.B.17)178 : Stonde & saye on þis manere als þou may se wryten here.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)20.5 : Loo, here þe lettere..in latyn and in ebrew, That ich seye is soþe, seo ho so lykeþ.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4811 : In his boke Dares bereth witnes Þat it was..In apparence a þing celestial; Seth in his boke, ʒe gete no more of me.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)877/60 : Disdeyne nat benyngly to se Vp-on þis boke.\nc1425 Wycl.Concord.in Spec.43 (Roy 17.B.1)273 : Þo textis..may be liʒtly founden, as þou mai se in þese wordis: Aaron, Abba, Abel, & in many mo.\nc1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)81 : We schulle see in hem algate schewed grete mekenesse, as we mowe see, ʒif we haue in mynde, in alle the processe that is seide ʒitt hider to.\na1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)132/14 : Walter bloet..confirmid to hem, as he had sei bi her charturs.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)699 : As of the Ioyes of this arte ye haue seyne, So shal ye now hire somdele of the peyne.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)602 : His prayere þanne made he, As here ʒe may boþe rede and see.\n(a) To be in the presence or company of (sb., the devil, etc.); come into contact with (sb.), meet, visit; also fig.; -- also without obj. [quot.: a1382, 2nd]; ben sene of (with), be met by (sb.); (b) to see (God, the face of God or Christ, the throne of Christ) in heaven; be in or come into the presence of (God); see (more of God, God in his divine nature); ~ in sight (with eien; ~ face to face, see (God) face to face; -- also without obj.; ~ face to face and eien to eien, ~ neb to (with) neb; (c) ~ face to face, to meet personally.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3842 : Þohh þatt he grissliʒ deofell seo, Niss he rihht nohht forrfæredd.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)41/435 : Ah nat i hwet vnselisið makede me her to sechen, bute mi muchele unselhðe sohte þe to seonne.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)34 : Me is þe wrs þat ich þe so.\na1300 Nu sittet (Cmb Mm.1.18)19 : So ich mote heuer Mahun soe, Als ich sege ue [read: eu], so it sal bu.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)957 : Alle him loueden þat him sowen.\na1350 My deþ (Hrl 2253)27 : He nes nout blyþe neuer a day bote he me sone seʒe.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)9372 : Wroþer hole þou Rion seiʒe!\nc1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)7076 : Ʒif þou wilt fro me go, Þou me sext neuer mo.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)811 : Or þat he eft kyng Charlis say, ful miche had he to done.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)2782 : Now y sen hym noʒt in þis house, a-gon ys al myn hiʒt.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Tob.5.25 : Richessis wee shulden counten þat, þat oure sone wee seʒen.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.40.7 : Myn enemys seiden euelis to me..if he wente in þat he see, veyne thingis he spac.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.433 : Eneas seiþ [Higd.(2): see] neuere Dido..for Eneas..deide þre hondred ʒere..to fore.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4160 : Cast yee him [Joseph] þar..þan mai we sai we sagh [Frf: saghe; Göt: sau; Trin-C: seʒe; Arms: soʒe] him noght.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.190 : With-outen helpe of Piers plowman..his persone seestow neuere.\n?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)188/22 : Wee wisten neuere wheþer þat oure felowes weren lost or ell turned aʒen..But wee ne saugh hem neuer after.\n(?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)8.1719 : In this world heer thei list no lenger tarye..Ferr in Egipt to lyue solitarye, Deepe in desertis, of folk nat to be seyn.\nc1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)182 : Agayne þe lady tase þe waye, Þe erle, hir fadir, for to saye.\nc1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)819 : My dere child, dighte es oure dede; Thi fadir seese us na mare.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5022 : Þi modire nor ʒit Messedon þou seʒis þaim na mare.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)16297 : He wold Sara were seyne and knawn with all hyr [read: his] kynred.\nc1450 NPass.(Cmb Ii.4.9)42/410 : Be than þe coke hath thryes crowe, þou schalt seyen þat þou me neuyr sowe.\n?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)165/27 : Neither of hem ne hadde saie other before that tyme.\na1475(1456) Lineage Clare (ArmsV Clare Roll)p.477 : Graunte that he And..his wyff may see Hir childres children or thei hens wende.\na1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)6714 : Wen he was comen aʒayn and the emperour seght hym, of hys come he was fayne.\nc1450(c1400) Emare (Clg A.2)869 : Alle hym loued þat hym sy.\na1500 My hert ys (Dub 158)3 : Ther may no bran my balyes no byne tyll y onys may sse my leffe.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)19431 : Whatt Abraham, whatt Moysæs..Ne sæʒhenn þeʒʒ nohht Drihhtin Godd Inn hiss goddcunnde kinde?\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)29 : Þe mon þe heleð his sunne aðisse liue ne siht he nefre almihtin drihten.\na1225 Lamb.Hom.Pater N.(Lamb 487)61/110 : Cristes wille bo us bitwon, neb wið neb for him to son.\nc1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)26/245 : For þe luue of godd seolf, ʒef þu eauer sehe [Tit: seh] him, tele us sumhwet of him.\nc1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)34/318 : Ha seoð him as he is, nebbe to nebbe.\n?c1250 PMor.(Eg 613(1))381 : Þo scullen more of him seon þe luuede him her more.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)405 : Ʒif þu wolt sen in þi siht God of heuene..Vnderstond nu what i mene.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)108/21 : Ac he yzyʒþ þat he ne is clene ne worþi him to zyenne.\nc1390 Treat.Mass (Vrn)107 : Not Blynt þat day schalt þou not be Þat þou þi sauiour hast se.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3950 : Þou sal be cald israel, þat es, man seand godd of hel.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)2/9 : We may cum to þe lif and se þe dais of godis sune in ioye wid-uten ende.\na1425 Here begynnes a new (Roy 17.C.17)477 : Wyt Hys blode He gyf us grace In Hys ryche to se Hys face.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)189/27 : Soulis comen to þe eendelees glorified siʒt of me, where þei seen me and in truþe taasten me.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)4/27 : We moten hym se in his blisse, noʒt as in a myrour, but wiþouten ende.\na1450 That ilke man (Dgb 102)109 : My face wiþ loue shalt þou not se, But steke þe wiþoute heuene ʒate.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)186/42 : Bese bolde and biddis now To tyme ʒe haue my Fadir sonne.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)60/19 : As sone as þei dighe such arn broute be fore god and seeth him þer face to face and eyghen to eyghen.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.9.5b : We see now god bi..a mirour, as hit were in a mirknesse; bute in heuen schul we see opinli face to face.\n?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)601 : I mysylfe shall see in syght With eyen clere..And knowe hym as god almyght.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)8171 : He þat seeth him face to face, He is replete of alle grace.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)850 : It is nede that with-in shorte space We speke to-gedire, & see face to face.\nIn phrase: leten ~ [see also leten v.18l.]: (a) to allow or cause (sb. or sth.) to see (sb. or sth.); show (sb. or sth. to sb. or sth.); -- also with clause as obj. of sen; also without obj. of sen; (b) to let me or us see (sth.), show me or us, let us find out; let ben sene, let it be seen; -- also with subordinate clause or direct question as obj.; let ~ of, show us (sth.), let us know of; (c) let ~, as exclamation: look here, see here; (d) let (me) ~, as verbal filler to gain time for thought.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.217 : He..let te posstless sen himm wel Inn hiss mennisske kinde.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11337 : Þe laþe gast..let himm staness seon anan.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)501 : Houndes on hyde he diʒtes, Alle he lete hem se.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1422 : What man he is las se, Þat take þis bataile swiþe.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1827 : Lat me se Harpi hou þou can.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)H.177 : Lat take a cat..And lat hym seen a mous go by the wal.\n?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.18 : Ethelbert in the felde his fader lete he se How Dardan for his lance doun to þe erth went.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)16.259 : 'What is in ʒowre lappe?' 'Loö' quod he, and lete me se.\nc1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)21/20 : Lat us se if we hafe any right in hym.\n1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)14/22 : Now lete me see whether ye can putte the swerd theras it was.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)359/205 : Of wonders that I haue wroght, som haue I letten you se.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)554 : Who better can, lat se.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.3083 : Lat se now of youre wommanly pitee.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3116 : Lat se now who shal telle another tale.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4511 : Now syngeth, sire..Lat se, konne ye youre fader countrefete?\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.794 : Lat se wher the cut wol falle.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)17.9 : 'Late se þi lettres,' quod I, 'we miʒte þe lawe knowe.'\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)414 : Ta now þy grymme tole to þe, & let se how þou cnokez.\nc1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)2865 : Lete se now what ʒe say.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1450 : Lat sen now, darst thow take this viage?\nc1450(c1398) Paris St.Christina (Arun 168)152 : Sire, make theme hole! late se, cane ye?\nc1450 How mankinde dooþ (Lamb 853)18 : How many foolde Hast þou brouʒt richesse? now late se.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)172/376 : Late be sene who may best þeder go.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)72/15 : Let sen, Wole ʒe be pure maydyn?\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)357 : Now lete se..what ye will do.\na1450-1509 Rich.(Brunner)2283 : Lette se, Rycharde, assayle yerne The pauylyon with the golden herne.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)1202 : Be lyue, lett se; What wold þou dreme of this dremyng?\na1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)5770 : Answere ageyn; tel on! lat se!\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)356/49 : Why, let se than, sey me youre ententis.\nc1500(?c1450) Wedding Gawain (Rwl C.86)100 : Whate sayst thou, kyng; lett se, haue done.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.585 : But now, sire, lat me se, what shal I seyn?\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.1430 : But telle me..How I myght best avaylen? 'Now lat se,' Quod Pandarus, 'if ye, [etc.].'\n(a) To see (sb. or sth.) in a vision, dream, hallucination; witness (an event, action, etc.) in a dream, etc.; -- also without obj. in as clause [quot.: PPl.C]; also, visualize (sth.); ~ in drem (slep); ~ with sight; (b) ~ avisioun (drem, revelacioun, sweven, visioun); ~ sight, to see a sight in a dream; also, have a vision; ~ sight in sweven; (c) to have a dream or vision, dream; ~ in slep.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)118/23 : Ne seah ic [St.John] þær nan temple ne nan sundrie hus.\nc1300 SLeg.Fran.(1) (LdMisc 108)17 : In þat paleys him þouʒte he saiʒ al-so knyʒhtes Armes þere.\na1350 SLeg.Cross (Ashm 43)82 : His broþer soule abel ek him þoʒte In helle he sei [Vrn: seih].\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.3 : Þat oþere is gostlich, als it were a semblaunce whan we seen it in sleep.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.6 : Write in þe book þat þou seest & sende it to þe seuen chirches of Asye.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.40.10 : Þe prouost of botelers befor tolde his sweuen: 'I seeiʒ befor me a vyne, [etc.].'\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Apoc.1.20 : Seuene sterris..thou siʒe [vr. saiest; WB(2): seiʒest] in my riʒthalf.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Apoc.17.8 : The beest whom thou siʒe [WB(2): seist], was, and is not.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.373 : Ʒif a man..went in to þis pitte, and waked þere inne a day and a nyʒt, he schulde see þe sorwes and þe peynes of euel men.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)258 : Þenne he seos Ihesu crist in a sad Roode.\nc1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)493 : Þe Clerk þat fourmed þis figour..saih him-self þat harde stour.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.3705 : Ared mi swevene ariht..Me thoghte I sih a barli cake.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.1854 : His deeth saugh I by reuelacioun.\na1400 Cursor (Frf 14)3779 : In slepe a ladder him þoʒt he seyghe.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)prol.109 : Al þis I sauʒ slepyng & seue siþes more.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)15.12 : Resoun..rokked me aslepe, Tyl I seigh, as it sorcerye were, a stoyl þinge.\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)790 : Þe apostel hem segh in gostly drem.\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)985-6 : As John þe apostel hit syʒ wyth syʒt, I syʒe þat cyty..Jerusalem.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)12.153 : Þe holy trinite to austyn appeirede, And he ous seide as he seih.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1238 : He mette he saugh a bor with tuskes grete.\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)25/4 : He kowde not telle wakyng what he hade seen.\n(1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)1672 : He loked upward with his goostly face And sey, as him þoutʒ..Owre lord.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)33.14 : A man by hym sauwh he faste bye.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)917 : Daun Scipio..saw in drem..Helle and erthe and paradys.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1283 : What shuld I make lenger tale Of alle the pepil y ther say?\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1635 : Þe same gode..I in my slepe saʒe in my days.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)173/5191 : Yet se y wel a gret pese of plesaunce The which y..in my bosum put So forto kepe it in remembraunce.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)59/5 : Such a soule seth in his Joyful contemplacioun ryveris flowyng bothe hony and botter.\n(a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)75/9 : For þe clernesse þat he [Mohammed] sey, he myte not stand, but fel down as ded.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)127a/b : Priuy vertues ben troublid, as ymagynatif, for þei bileuen þat þei seen þing þat þei seen not.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)29 : Ye syen a childe of vij yere age.\na1500 Chartier Quad.(2) (Rwl A.338)144/8 : As I laye thus half sleping me thought I saughe..a lady.\na1500 in James Cat.MSS Trin-C.3.494 : Scotomye is such a sekenes of the Brayne that maketh a man to seme that he sethe flyes or blake thingis in þe eyre.\nc1300 Body & S.(5) (LdMisc 108)p.25 : Als i lay..In a droukening..Vor soþe i sauʒ [vr. seiʒe] a selly syt.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1605 : He..slep and sag an soðe drem.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8749 : Seint edwardes auision..Was þo to soþe icome þat biuore is deþe he sey [B vr. se].\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.10 : Seint Iohan, whan he had seen [vr. seyʒ] þoo siʒttes, fel vnto þe lordes feet.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.7.13 : I sawgh a sweuene.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 2.17 : Ʒoure ʒonge schulen se visyouns.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.305 : Þat ʒere Pharao sigh [vr. syʒe] þe sweuene of the seuene corn eres.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.99 : Daniel seigh ten sightes.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4533 : Aiþer of hus a drem we sau.\nc1400(1375) Canticum Creat.(Trin-O 57)471 : Slepynge y say a syʒt.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.40.8 : A sweuen we han seen [WB(2): We seiʒen a dreem].\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)25/2 : Nabugodonosor slepynge saw a wonderful visioun.\n(1440) Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)1668 : On..had þis reuelacioun: He þoute he say..A blessed sith.\na1450(?1409) Vision Staunton (Roy 17.B.43)58 : Here begynneth þe reuelacion the which William Stavnton saw in Patrik is purgatorie.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)523 : When þe kyng was y-fole a-slepe, A wonder syʒt hym thoʒt he saye.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)2436 : A worshipfulle knyʒt..hadde sey þe same visione.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)195/1367 : In my swevyn I sey a syght.\n1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)3 : Men may some sweuen[es] sene Whiche..afterwarde ben apparaunt.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.3 : Pharao seiʒ in Egipte in slepe.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Dan.2.34 : Thou hast seen [WB(2): siʒest; vr. sauʒest] thus, til a stoon was kit of.\nc1425 Found.St.Barth.8/14 : I lyfte vp my eiyn and sawhe and to me was seyed, 'beholde iiii hornnys.'\nWith compound obj.: (a) with noun or pron. and inf. as obj.: to see (sb. or sth. do or doing sth.) in a dream or vision; -- also without obj. noun [quot.: Jos.Arim.]; ~ with eien in slep; (b) with noun or pron. and pr.ppl. as obj.; (c) with noun or pron. and p.ppl. as obj.; (d) with noun and pred.adj. as obj.; also, with noun qualified by a prep.phr. as obj.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)4141 : Him þoʒte he sey a grislich bere fle in þe eir an hey.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)274 : Þe spere blod and watur louses; [he] Bi-holdes touward hise feet, say fro hem renne; eornen al of red blod romynge a-boute.\n?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.44 : He sauh out of þe firmament an armed knyght com doun.\na1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)1375 : Anoþir y [Merlin] seo her go and synge.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)11/15 : Iacob..saʒ gode wid his angels cume dune and vp in þe stede þare he lay.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)145/10 : Sche sey..preystys & many oþer, bothyn hethyn & Cristen, comyn be-for hir syght.\na1450(?1420) Lydg.TG (Tan 346)694 : Me þouʒ[te] þat I say This woful man..entre into an oratorie.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3106 : Hurre thouʒt he say þe clothe..Meue ofte.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)344 : Þe chefe qwene..in hire slep suld se with hire eʒen Amon hire awyn god in hire armes ligge.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)86/2550 : Y met..That, as me thought, y sy..Bifore me stonde a man with lokkis gray.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 22.18 : It is don to me..me for to be maad in rauyssching of soule and to se him seyinge to me, 'Hiʒe thou.'\n(?1387) Wimbledon Serm.(Corp-C 357)88/429 : Þe prophete lifte vp his eiʒen, and he saye to wommen comynge owt.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)22053 : An angel, he sais, i sagh [Phys-E: sach] lendand Wit a mikel cheigne in hand.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.1.4 : I saw stondynge aboven the heghte of myn heved a womman of ful greet reverence.\na1450(?1420) Lydg.TG (Tan 346)49 : As me þouʒt, I sauʒe..some kneling wiþ billis in hir honde.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)160/4765 : On hir hond an Owle y sigh sittyng.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)19/15 : Caste down þin eyghe..ymaginyng in þin hert as þogh þou sigh lyghing afore þe crist Jhesu.\na1475 Rev.St.Bridget (Gar 145)118/29 : Saint Birgitte was rauysshed into a grete and fayre paleys, where sche sigh oure lorde Ihesu Crist sitting.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.259 : Sannt Johan..sahh upp inn heffne an boc Bisett wiþþ seffne inseʒʒless.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Apoc.19.11 : I siʒe heuen openyd, and lo, a whijt hors.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)269 : He sauh Ihesu crist I-strauʒt vppon þe Roode.\nc1390 11 Pains(3) (Vrn)253/91 : Summe [souls] he sauʒ bi-suyled as souwes In þat pyne.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.2883 : The hihe tree which thou hast sein With lef and fruit so wel besein..betokneth thi persone.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.1857 : After his deeth I saugh hym born to blisse In myn avisioun.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)207 : Another ymage set saugh I Next coueitise fast by.\nc1450 Thow holy douʒter (Eg 3307)p.125 : Thow ert..The gate whych Ezechiel Saw alway closse, both euen and morow.\na1475 Rev.St.Bridget (Gar 145)41/35 : When she come to the ende of hir lyfe, she see seynte Peter arayde lyke a byshop.\nc1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)5.10 : I sauh þe Feld ful of Folk.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)26.191 : Sche thouhte sche Say In hire Avisiown Nasciens hire lord, bothe hol & sown.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)419 : Þe same nyʒt in his slepe he saʒe, as him thoʒt, Amon his awen god in armes with his qwene.\nWith clause as obj.: (a) introduced by conj. that: to see in a vision (that sb. does sth.); also, without that: see (sth. or sb. do sth.) in a dream; (b) introduced by indef. conjunctive adv. or conj. other than that: to see in a dream (where sth. stands, how sb. does sth.), see in a vision (how sb. was born); (c) with noun as obj. preceding clause.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.44 : I seiʒ þat þe lombe opened on of þe claspes.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)181 : He seih in his chaumbre-flor þreo [trees] souht vp at enes.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.617 : Me thoghte that I sih A gret ston..Fel doun of sodein aventure.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)18.112 : I sawe..Out of þe west coste a wenche, as me thouʒte, Cam walkynge.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.603 : Abedde wher I lay, Me thoghte I syh upon a Stage Wher stod a wonder strange ymage.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)5.22 : I shal seiʒe as I saiʒ [vrr. saye, seyde]..How conscience wiþ a cros cumside to preche.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)31 : Thei sien how I [Merlin] was born.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.11 : He sawe Theodoryk in visioun Bytwene Symachus and pope John..to his dampnacioun How he was led.\n(a) To foresee (sth., an event); also, receive (an oracular message) [quot.: a1382]; -- also with clause as obj.; ~ aforn, foresee (what should happen); ~ after, foresee (sth.) as a result; ~ in avisioun, foresee (sb. or sth.) in a prophetic dream; don ~, with obj. clause and appositive hit: show (sb. what will happen); leten ~ in sweven, cause (sb.) to foresee (sth.) in a dream; (b) ~ biforen (in-to after, to foresee the future, look into the future; ~ fer of and from, of the eyes: foresee the future; ppl. seinge, able to foresee the future; man seinge, a seer.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)109 : Þe holi prophete abacuc..seh suterliche fele of þe wundren þe ure helende dide siðen.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)167 : Salomon..sehʒ þese wunderliche stienge alse suterliche alse he þis dai were.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)225 : In ðat sweuene he let him sen Mikel ðat after sulde ben.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2438 : Quat of him sulde ben Hali gast dede it him seen.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.2.1 : Þe woord þat sawʒ ysaie..vp on Judam & ierusalem.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 12.41 : Ysaie seid thes thingis whanne he syʒ the glorie of hym [Christ].\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4304 : A lite er he was mordred, on a day His mordre in his auysioun he say [vr. seyhe].\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18998 : He [Joel]..sagh on-ferrum þis Of his up-ris.\na1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)99/1236 : Dame Tithes Loked into þe firmament..And þere she sawe [Hrl: Sauwe]..How hir sone shulde be slayn.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)110 : His ymage he made onon, And of his barouns euerychon..And dude hem togedre gon Jn a bacyne, al by charme; He seiʒ to hym fel þe harme.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)prol.201 : I se [C: seo] so mykel after, Shal neuer þe cat ne þe kitoun bi my conseille be greued.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)16.252 : Iohan Baptiste..seigh here þat sholde saue vs alle.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.661 : Philotetes..koude a-forn so prudently prouide, Of verray insiʒt to cast a-forn and se Tempest or wynd, bothe on lond or see.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1906 : Þi wit was to bareyne Þat þou aforne by prudence naddist seyne What schulde folwe of þis vnhappy caas.\na1456(c1425) Lydg.Eagle (Trin-C R.3.20)30 : Þis is þe foole which Ezechyel In his avysyoun saughe ful yoore agoon.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)250 : Þai can certifi & se by sygnes of þe heuyn Quat sall be-fall a-pon fold with-inen a fewe ʒerys.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)702 : Ʒonder behald ouer þi hede & se my hatter werdis.\n?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)5.439 : This man instructe in astronomy, see in the firmamente þat his realme scholde be destroyede.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)739 : What seruit it your sciense of þe seuon artes that þou [Medea] sogh not your sorow þat thee suet after?\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Eccl.4.13 : Betere is a child pore & wijs þan a kyng old & fool þat kan not seen beforn in to after.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.30.10 : Sones not willing to heren þe lawe of god..seyn to men seeynge [vr. men seende; WB(2): profetis], 'wileþ not seen?'\nc1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)605/37 : Provideo: to purveye, or to see byfore.\na1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)42/13 : Than shall they all know that thy eyen sawe ferre of and fro.\nOf God or Christ: (a) to know or see (sb. or sth.) through divine power or omniscience; perceive (a virtue or vice); foresee (sth.); ~ and witen (knouen), witen and ~; ~ biforen, have (divine foreknowledge); ben sene in sight; (b) with compound obj. of noun or pron. and inf.: to see or perceive (sb. do or experience sth., sth. being done in sb.); (c) to look, observe, be able to see; ~ thurgh, be able to see through (an aperture); fig. detect (an act of wrong-doing).\na1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1124 : Ure Laford God..eall digelness seð & wat.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1237 : Swete Ihesu..ich wot þou seost ham now in helle.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.1 : Oure swete fader of heuene..wist & seiʒ [vr. seʒgh] al þing er it were made.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)2108 : Lord..y þanky þe þat al þyng sest & wost.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judith 6.15 : Lord god of heuene & of erþe, see þe pride of hem.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1665 : The destinee..executeth in the world oueral The purueiaunce that God hath seyn biforn.\nc1390 Castle Love(1) (Vrn)8 : God, Fader and Sone and Holigost..alle þing on eorþe sixt and wost.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.2804 : The hihe king of kinges..seth and knoweth alle thinges.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)862 : Adam..wend to hide him amang þa tres Fra his sight þat al sees [Frf: seise].\nc1400 Bk.Mother (LdMisc 210:Everett)14/11 : Adam..hid him among þe leues of paradise, as þei God myght not haue seye him.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)10/24 : God es noht paid þar-of, for he ses ty herte.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)11/38 : God ses al yure þoght and al yure dedis.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.pr.2.53 : It is seid in Grek that 'alle thinges he seeth and alle thinges he herith.'\n?a1450 MLChrist (Add 39996)1051 : Crist bihelde hym openly And segh a fende in his body.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)15163 : I wyll amend yt..Þat I be sene þen in þi syʒt a mang þem þat sall saued be.\n?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)13/32 : Whanne God sawe her humblesse, he had mercy on hem.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.301 : Þis pellican, Crist Iesus, seynge þe myschef þat mankende was fallyn yn..he hadde rewþe on mankende.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)199/5 : I haue hardyn thy Prayer and Seyn thy terris.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)112 : He [God] seiʒ þe peple þorw peine passen in-to helle.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.29.33 : For the Lord hath seen me ben had to dispiyt, hath ʒyuun also this to me.\na1425(a1396) Maidstone PPs. (Wht)699 : Oure Lord..say man walke vndir þe weiʒt Of alle þe deedly synnes seuene.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)109/16 : He haþ no maner likyng..to do verry vertues which pleseþ me to seen hem do in ʒou.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8652 : Her I gaddre stikkess twa Swa summ þe seost, lef laferd.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Jer.7.11 : 'I, I am, I saʒ,' seiþ þe lord.\nc1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)116 : Hit watz a wenyng vn-war..Þaʒ he were soʒt fro Samarye, þat God seʒ no fyrre.\na1425(a1396) Maidstone PPs. (Wht)697-8 : He say fro his holy heiʒt, To erþe oure Lord say out of heuene.\na1450(1400) Eche man be war (Dgb 102)95 : God seeth thurgh euery bore.\na1450(1400) Eche man be war (Dgb 102)103 : God seeth thurgh eche mysse.\na1450(1413) Glade in god call (Dgb 102)93 : Men do in derk, god seeþ in lyʒt.\nOf God or Christ: to know (sth.); -- with clause as obj.: (a) introduced by conj. that; -- also without that; (b) introduced by indef. conjunctive adv. or pron. or conj. other than that; ~ in sight; (c) preceded by noun in compound-obj. construction.\na1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1124 : Ure Laford God..seoð þæt man læt þæt ærme folc mid ealle unrihte.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.1.10 : God seeʒ þat it was good.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)4.328 : As sone as god seih he suwed nouht hus wille, He reuede hym of hys richesse.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)225 : The Lord sie that Moyses ʒede to se.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)7/29 : He sawʒ þat þei asked þat was aʒens hem.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)8/6 : God..fulfilleþ oure preier in sumwhat ellis, þat he seeþ to vs is more nedeful.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)216/32 : Crist see well þat she shuld haue be dampned for þat synne.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)27/273 : Lauerd godd..þu sist al hu ich am bisteaðet & bistonden.\na1275 *Body & S.(4) (Trin-C B.14.39)76 : Þan sal ure louerd se Wa haued don for is sondes.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)171 : God sag bi-fore quat after cam, Ðat singen sulde firme adam.\na1450(1411) Many man (Dgb 102)92 : Þat ʒe hyde, ful bryʒt y se.\na1450(?1418) The herrere degre (Dgb 102)71 : For þat ʒe hid, god seeþ in syʒt.\na1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)7.10 : Oure werkis may men see, bot whi we doe thaim and whidere we thynk in doand thaim, anly god sees.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)9457 : Al sawe he Fro þe firste, hou þei shulde be.\n(a) To perceive (sth., a virtue, vice, etc.) with the mind; discern (sth.), discover; realize (sth.), comprehend; also fig.; refl. know or understand oneself; ~ in slep, realize (sth.) while sleeping; (b) ~ thurgh gostli wit (soules eie), ~ with gostli sight; (c) to perceive (God), apprehend; ~ with hertes eie; (d) ~ chaunce, to perceive an opportunity; ~ time (tide), perceive the right time or an opportune time; (e) ~ ensaumple at, to follow the example of (sb.).\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7032 : Þa gode menness herrtess..sen & shæwenn þurrh innsihht..All þatt tatt erþliʒ mann maʒʒ sen Þurrh clennsedd sawless eʒhe.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)157 : Þe rihtwise Mon..mid þe eʒene of his horte bihalt in to houene and sicð þe muchele blisse þet he is to ileðed.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)127/8 : Bland ðies folkes hierte, þat hie ne sien ne understande ðe rihte weiʒe to heuene riche.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)26/13 : Ich habbe sehen blisse, & ich blissi me þrof.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)950 : Heo..so for leost al hire liht Þat heo ne siþ [Jes-O: syhþ] soð neriht.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)14047 : Ich seh þane swikedom.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)327/147 : Is fader wende to sechen heom þo he ne saiʒ oþur red.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)192 : Beres him wile to-dragen, And fleges sen on him non agen.\nc1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)13/229 : He wist..Of þat sterre þe toknyng; Þanne saide þe maistres to Florentin, 'What sex tou, leue child, þar in?'\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)16/26 : Þis zenne of prede ys to dreduol uor hi ablent men zuo þet hi ham-zelve ne knaweþ ne ne zyeþ.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)204/26 : Hy presten out hare eʒen of þe herte þet hi ne zeʒen þing þet ham miʒte wyþdraʒe uram hire contemplacion.\n1372 Merci abid (Adv 18.7.21)7 : Lord, ʒef me grace my senne to se, Þat nith & day I mov hem fle.\n(c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.110 : Men goostly in this mayden free Sayen of feith the magnanymytee.\nc1390 ?Hilton Qui Habitat (Vrn)81/1 : Myn eʒe dispiseþ hem, not aperinde to me in bodily liknes but gostly, seoinde heore malice & heore vuel wil.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2879 : I loue youre honour and youre profit as I do myn owene..ne ye, ne noon oother, syen [vrr. seyen, seyn] neuere the contrarie.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.1808 : This Perseus as noght seende this meschief which that him abod..prided him upon the thing.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1798 : Thei..in his chambre lyhen And al his conseil herde and syhen.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18451 : Þir war þe priueteis wee scau [Trin-C: sawe], Ikarius and mi felau.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)3.204 : Seruauntis for here seruyse, we se [vr. ʒe seon; B: we seth] wel þe soþe, Takiþ mede of here maistris.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)19.450 : Þe comune..counten ful litel Þe conseille of conscience..But if þei sowe [vrr. seigh, seie, seen, sight] as by syʒte somwhat to wynnynge.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)2.39 : Þat seyþ [B vr. sueth; Z: seuth] þe saule and setth [vr. saith] hit the in herte And wisseþ þe to be ware.\n?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.(Göt Hist 740)23819 : Modrede he ces na waie of pes.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)73b/a : Þe arterie..þe whiche is leten blood atwixe þe þoumbe and þe ffynger next to þe þoumbe is good for olde akkeþis..& Galien sawe þat in his slepe.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)228/17 : If þou say ony opyn expresse synne in hem, ʒit..deeme hem not.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)305 : Thouʒ Salamon sauʒe perel in ricchessis and perel in beggerie, ʒit he expressith the gretter perel of synne to come bi begrie.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)46/13 : I haue likyng in Goddis lawe wiþ myn inner man, but I see anoþer lawe in my lymes.\nc1450(c1400) Rev.Jul.Norwich (Add 37790)45/29 : I sawe sex thynges in myne vndyrstandynge.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)120/21 : Þe more nerre þey ben þe light, þe more better and clerlier þey see hem self and fynde synnes.\na1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)5704 : Thogh thow seye in me Errour, Thow sholdest..ffor-bere me more pacyently.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)156/16 : Þei se it as cleerly bi resoun as þei seen what is white or blacke wiþ her iʒen.\na1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)6465 : When that Pilate soght this thing, to his brother he had enuye.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7036 : All þatt tatt erþliʒ mann maʒʒ sen Þurrh clennsedd sawless eʒhe.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)15053 : Ʒiff þatt tu þurrh gastlike witt Sest tiss & unnderrstanndesst, [etc.].\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)48/30 : When man..seeþ with gostli syʒte his owne vnworþinesse, þat schal holde hym lowe.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13590 : Godd..þu þurrh Drihhtin sest nuʒʒu Wiþþ innsihht off þin herrte.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13622 : Issraæl tacneþþ þatt mann..Þatt seþ wiþþ herrtess eʒhe Godd.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)244/4 : Hi habbeþ þe eʒen of hare herten..zuo clyer þet hi zyeʒ [?read: zyeþ] god.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3291 : Oure lord..heues him to welthis So heʒe þat he for vn-hele seʒes noʒt his driʒten.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1710 : Manly sche melled hire þo men forto help, til sche say tidi time hire prey for to take.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)4917 : William & his worþi make, whan þei sei time, told þemperour treuli þat hem tidde hadde.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.1128 : Alla, whan he his tyme say, With his Custaunce..To Engelond been they come.\na1400 Cato(3) (Frf 14)319 : & þou se first chaunce..first þou hit take.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)8.15 : Ich parfourned neuere penaunce þat þe preest me hihte..ich sey neuere þe tyme.\nc1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)49/23 : Þai..þouʒt euer to bene avengede of þe deth of Constantyne here broþer when þai saw here tyme.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.351 : For al this, whan that he say his tyme, He held his pees.\nc1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)8979 : When thow sese tyme, on me thow sekes.\na1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)26 : Þe soule is knowe..how gladli and benygnely for to condescende whanne it seeþ tyme, persoone and chesoun whi and whanne it is for to condescende whanne it seeþ tyme to hem.\na1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)68 : Looke þow haue tarrers two..with fawcet & tampyne redy to stoppe when ye se tyme.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)65b/b : Lete þo plastris ligge stille þerto til þat þou se tyme þat it schulde be chaungid.\na1500 Rule Serve Ld.(Add 37969)12/35 : When þe marshall seyth tyme..the marshall shall commonde to take vpe..all þe broke mete.\n1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)1452 : An hunter can abyde The beest, tyl he seeth his tyde To shoten at goodmesse to the dere.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)3878 : A-baste noʒt ʒoure hertis; Seis ensampill at my-selfe.\nWith compound obj.: (a) with noun or pron. and inf.: to perceive with the mind (sb. or sth. do sth., sb. or sth. doing sth., sb. experiencing an emotion, sth. to be done, etc.), be aware of; know of (sb. doing sth.), know (sb. to have children, sth. to be true); (b) with noun or pron. and pr.ppl.: to perceive (sb. doing sth., sth. approaching, etc.); (c) with noun or pron. and pred.adj.: to perceive or find (sb. or oneself in a specified physical, emotional, or moral state, sb. or sth. to be of a specified quality, sb. to be quiet); -- also with indef. hit and adv. [quot.: I wole be mendid]; (d) with noun or pron. and p.ppl.: to perceive or find (sb., sth., oneself in a specified condition or state); know of (Christ having been born); find (a ship gone); -- also without noun or pron. [quot.: a1450(c1410)]; (e) with noun or pron. qualified by a prep. phr.: to perceive (sb. or sth. in a specified condition or state), know (sb. to be in a specified condition); consider (nothing to be to any good purpose); -- also without prep.phr. [last quot.]; (f) with pron. and noun: to consider or recognize (sb. as sth.).\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)137 : Wanne þu sest gost cumen and wunien uppe mannen, he shal fulcnen on þe holie gost to sinnes forgiuenesse.\nc1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)14/186 : Þe ontfule deouel..sið [Tit: seð] þe folhin hire troden.\n?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)183 : Woso seye Iacob his sorinesse lede, Hit were muche reuþe in boc for to rede.\nc1300 Iesu cristes milde moder (Arun 248)29 : Pine strong þu soie im dreien.\na1325 SLeg.Becket (Corp-C 145)692/70 : Me suk manye men makye ane byheste To byleue fleysch þan Tywesday.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)9561 : His witherwin him wroght ful wa; Quen merci sagh him suagat be, Of him sco can haf pite.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)10268 : Þe lagh..Biclepis þat man for maledight þat has na barn..Nu nan we sagh [Ld: sie] þe neuer haue.\n?c1400 Earth(2) (StJ-C E.24)st.6 : Whan erþe sycþ erþe to endynge drawe..Þan may erthe erthe y-knawe.\na1425 Body & S.(5) (Add 37787)345 : Þe body seyh þe gast Swych dole & swych mone make.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)226/31 : Þei ben moore glad of dyuerse staatis..þanne þei ben if þei siʒh hem alle kepen o way of lyuynge.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)34 : What he siʒe to be trewe bifore in doom of resoun..he toold out to hise herers.\nc1450(a1400) Lavynham Treat.7 Dead.Sins (Hrl 211)15/3 : Heuynesse of a mannys bonchef is whan a man seeth his broþer encresyn in vertu..& is heuy in his herte þerof.\n(1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)88/21 : Gilbert say þus þe childyrn of God grow soo vndir his tuycion.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)23/34 : Kynge Arthur and the two kynges saw hem begynne wexe wrothe on bothe partyes.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)199 : Thys ys to me a lamentable story To se my flesch of my soull to haue gouernance.\na1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)55/31 : Whanne a kynge sees any good or profit to doo, with discrecion do he hit noght ouer latly ne ouer hastly.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)4456 : By þe riche it fareþ also As men sen a marchaunt do Þat boroweþ greet good alday.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)44 : What mai þe beo, þus murninge as ihc þe seo?\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14908 : He þe time sais command nei, þar he for mans kind wil dei.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)21061 : He sei [Phys-E: seich] His ending dai him neghand nei.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.5.5 : I saugh [vr. say] the..wepynge.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.8.27 : The amyable Fortune maystow seen..evere mysknowynge of hirself.\n(1435) Misyn FL (Corp-O 236)82/27 : It [mind] byrnys þo þingis to fulfil þat it seys & knawes plesynge to god.\n(c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)10/20 : Sche schuld se him standing in þe same feith where þat sche stood.\n(c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)19/27 : He say many men in þe cherch lyuyng in sundry maner.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)270/1 : Whan the knyght sy sir Launcelot thus rebukynge hym, he answerde nat.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)168 : What mai þe beo, So þoʒtful ase ihc þe seo?\nc1300 SLeg.Patr.(LdMisc 108)28 : Ʒwane he siʒkz [Corp-C: suchþ] him studefast..In-to churche he wole him lede.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.40.7 : Ioseph come inne erlich & seyʒ [vr. sawʒ] hem drery.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2535 : Whan he say the peple of noyse al stille, Thus shewed he the myghty dukes wille.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.234 : If thou..hast joie had Whan thou an other sihe unglad, Schrif the therof.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2533 : Þai sagh þair frendes ale and sund.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.257 : Þanne is dobest to be bolde to blame þe gylty, Sithenes þow seest þi-self as in soule clene.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)295/12 : Whi is not sich a wrecchid preest aschamed, seeynge me so meke and lowly in myn oonli sooþfast sone?\nc1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)23 : Was there none that euere syhe or herde hir wrooth.\n?c1430(c1400) Rule & T.St.Francis(1) (Corp-C 296)45 : Ʒeue þes mynystris to noon leue to go but to hem whom þei seen ablee to be sent to þis þing.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)89/14 : Þe softir he seeth it [world], þe lesse it schulde lette him.\na1450 *Aelred Inst.(2) (Bod 423)528 : He say himself feble and wayke.\na1450 I wole be mendid (Dgb 102)88 : As moche is þe leste cost As in þe grettest pece of þo [host]..Quaue not, ne drede not, to sen hit so.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)258/17 : In hur þou shalt se my signet of grace; Þou seist it neuer so plentevows in no creature.\n?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)20/2 : For y haue sayne the yongest most humble and most curteys, y will haue her.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)62/28 : Holy chyrche..seyth hom all sore seke yn þe sekenes of synne.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)999 : When herberde sawe him so gladde to dye, Then ran watire fro herberde his Eye.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3829 : Godess enngell frofreþþ mann Ʒiff þatt he seoþ himm færedd.\nc1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)16/227 : Þe engles..seoð hare suster se seorhfuliche aueallet.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)259/365 : It is inou þat he sucþ him sulf ouercome.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.1149 : Whan that he sih the wyndes saghte, Towardes Tharse his cours he straghte.\n?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.Lear (Göt Hist 740)565 : Qwen he sees and wele wate Hym [Lear] revigord..Cleth hym fulsone in rych wede.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)58/19 : Sche..left up hir goostly iʒe..and sey in his fist al þe world encloside.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)4608 : The table js of renown, of renown and of dignete gret; here sixt þou proved, and thow wilt wet.\n(c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)14/4 : Sche cam to þe brynk and say þe schip goo.\n?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)94/11 : On the morw, whanne she saye her selff so shamed and defouled, she deyed.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)22/4 : Þay kepton þe ʒeatys of paradyse and letten no sowle come yn, tyll þay seen hor Lord borne yn mankynde.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)22a/21 : Ne abied þou not þe token of wele etyng..and of othir whiche sygnis Roger and Boulane we se desayvid.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)2247 : Eiþer shamed of oþer..For þei sawe hem þo vnclad Of cloþing of grace.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)246 : Riʒt so hit farþ bi þan un-gode, Þat noʒt ne suþ to none gode.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)4216 : Arthure bed is felawes..ʒif hii seye him in nede þat hii ne made targinge none.\nc1390 Mirror St.Edm.(1) (Vrn)1062 : Betere hit is..To haue pite..Of hem þat þou seost in Meseyse.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1855 : Hem liketh noght to stere Here gostliche yhe forto se The world in his adversite.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)6825 : Riche and pouer þou sees [Göt: sest] in plight.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.363 : So ofte gan his herte colden, Seyng his frend in wo.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)4/8 : Þan sal þi hert liht be, in godis trouht yef þu it se.\na1425 Body & S.(5) (Add 37787)100 : Þu sye alle þi kyn in graue.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.2.17 : Sche say me..withouten office of tunge.\n1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)5906 : Whan þis prynce wyth chyld hys wyf seye, He hym dysposyd fully for to beleue.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)84/2510 : When a lady longe hath seyne Hir man in such perplexite..She must awake him of bounte.\na1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)4811 : She shal felyn at hyr herte Whan she me seth in gret mescheff.\n(1475) Paston1.374 : I wold she war her in Norffolk as well at es as evyr I sy hyr.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11591 : He sahh himm usell wihht Inn ure mennisscnesse.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2186 : Þenne he sið [Otho: siht] þe swa hende cniht, he þe ʒeueð þe [read: heo] forð-riht.\nc1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.39 : A mery mon ʒette may ʒe se me.\nWith clause as obj.: (a) introduced by conj. that: to realize (that sth. will happen, that sth. is so, etc.), perceive, understand, discover; don to ~, make (sb.) realize (that sth. will happen); (b) without that: to realize (one can do sth., sb. does sth., sth. is sth., sth. will happen, etc.), discover; (c) introduced by indef. conjunctive adv. or pron. or conj. other than that: to realize (how sth. is, why sb. did sth., what sth. is, etc.), discover; ~ at eie.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)10309 : He wille don uss wel To seon & tunnderrstanndenn Þatt nohht ne comm þatt laþe flocc Till Sannt Johan forr gode.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)19261 : Þær sæʒhe we þatt he wass Godd.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)7 : Powel..sagh þat mast mannen ladden here lif on sunnen.\na1300 Owl & N.(Jes-O 29)1465 : Þat child..syhþ wel bi myne songe Þat dusy luue ne last noht longe.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)175 : Her we seoþ þat oure lord is apayd..Of a lutel offryng of a pouere man.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)2296 : Nou þou sucst þat þi fader ded is & þine briþeren to ʒonge beþ uor to auonge þe croune.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)871 : And y finde and se Þat þou so wiþ child be, I schal þe help wiþ al mi miʒt.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)161/7 : Þe uerste [manner of tears] comeþ of þet me zyʒt þet me heþ god ofte ywreþed.\n(c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.16 : Yet seen men wel by resoun doutelees That ydelnesse is roten slogardye.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Deut.28.10 : Alle þe peplis of erþes sholyn seen [vr. seeyʒen] þat þe name of þe lord be inwardly cleped opon þe.\nc1390(?c1350) Jos.Arim.(Vrn)352 : Þou schalt ha vengaunce..þat al þi reume schal seo þat þou wrong siggest.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16099 : Seis þou [Trin-C: Sestou] noght þat þai þe hate?\na1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)44/23 : Jhesus com vpon þe sabat & saghʒe þat he hadde longe yleie seek.\n(a1402) Trev.Dial.MC (Hrl 1900)25/12 : Ʒe seeþ [vr. sueþ] þat whanne ʒe ʒeueþ a lytel what to þe kyng, ʒe biggeþ ʒoure owne sauacioun.\nc1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)538 : I can not se that argumentes avayle.\n(1445) Claudian CS (Add 11814)293/417 : Rome þan sighe þat she myʒte Ioie in her consul desired.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)450 : Resoun seeth openli that ther were no sure wey forto haue pees.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2038 : Neuere I sy Þat any fawte in vs he fonde.\na1456(a1402) *Trev.Nicod.(Add 16165)96b : We seowe [vr. seeþ] þat þou art eborne of fornycacoun.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)540/20 : Palomydes se that sir Trystram was falle in syknes.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)49/189 : Here do I se..All myghty god þat þou dost drede.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)20/9 : Þen seon þe byschoppys of mawmetry þat all þe pepull laft hor lawe and ʒeden to crysten fayth.\na1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)147/11 : The new Prynce opynly Saw [Dub: saue] that al thynge vndyr his new men yede to loste.\na1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)253 : Wel sey þe sarezin ne miste hire dere.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)1552 : Þou sest þis þing is cler Þat ich haue yschewed þe.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.191 : Som seiʒe Egipt schulde be lost.\n1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.52 : He schulde..ben releued withe þe godys of gilde, be on assente of þe breþeren, as þei sowen here godys myghte suffysen.\nc1390 St.Greg.(Vrn)20/162 : Heo saih his wit was neih for lore.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1022 : He seeth he may nat from his deeth asterte.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16327 : I wat and seis þai wel noght fine be-tuixand þai þe sla.\nc1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)299 : The porter seyh þo it might no better be.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)43/35 : Yef þe..abbes sese it es nede, þai sal make priuresse.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)795 : Whan she say hire tyme myghte be, At nyght she stal awey ful pryvyly.\nc1450(?a1400) Parl.3 Ages (Add 31042)263 : I seghe wele samples bene sothe that sayde bene ʒore.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)96/2863 : Loue..sigh my purpos wolde not chaungid be.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.11.7a : Whan he seʒt a soule wolde entierli ʒiefen him to gostli occupacion, he is wundierli wroth.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)548 : I se well by tyllynge lytyll xall I wyn.\nc1500 Castle Love(3) (Ashm 61)13 : He saw all men hade not vertu To know Latyn, Ebrew, and Grew.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)55 : For hys goode dedes y see wel ye wyl slee hym.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)2449 : I wollde sen & witenn..Whatt gate þiss maʒʒ ben þatt tu O Godess hallfe kiþesst.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)199 : I seo hu hit geþ.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3763 : Ðan sulde we brigte sen, Quilc gure sal god quemest ben.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)553 : Nym god ʒeme, man, Þu sist In þis paternoster what þu bist.\nc1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)133/91 : Nou þou sixte wel hou hyt syt.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)156/17 : Hit is grat nyed to habbe discrecion þet me zi of huam me may uorbysne nime.\nc1390 SLeg.Cross (Vrn)124 : In a priue stude he hem sette..Forte a Morwe þat he seʒe whodere he hem miʒte bringe.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12053 : Ne seis þou wel hu mani wedes O þis fole foke?\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)6.12 : Many crouch in his cloke..And þe vernicle beforn for men shulde knowe And sen be his signes whom he souʒt hadde.\n(?c1422) Hoccl.ASM (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)244 : I ouer blynd was; y nat sy ne dredde With what wo deeth wolde haaste me to bedde.\na1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.217 : If Peter were now alyve and saie how preestis weren occupied, he wolde seie þei weren not prestis of Crist.\n?a1425(?a1350) 7 Sages(2) (RwlPoet 175:Napier)p.461 : Lordynges, takes entent, And sese whi I efter yhow sent.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)157/2 : Þei kunne not se ne disseerne in truþe where her offence is.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)59/23 : Þan was þe mater put in my Lord of Norwych Alnewyk to say if he mygth be trety bryng it to an ende.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2892 : Whyl I leyd wyth hym my lott Ʒe seyn whou fayre he me be hett.\n?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)384 : If we take hede þus bi þis rule, we schal se at yʒe how þe clergie saiþ here oþer-wyse þan it is.\na1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)2350 : Sestow nat how a comoun welle Mor avaylleth..Than doth A-nother seuerel?\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)138/26 : Where in þe foorme of þe x comaundementis þis comaundement haþ place, I se not.\na1500(?a1425) Chester Pl.Antichr.(Pen 399)511/586 : Ye seey well what his powere ys.\nc1500 ME Verse in Anglia 92p.64 : What haue I doo for the, howe mych and whi, take hede and see.\nWith noun, pron., or appositive hit as obj. and obj. clause: to perceive or realize (this, how sb. should do sth.; that, that sth. is so; it, it might be no better; etc.); also, find (it) true (that sth. happens); -- also refl. [quot.: a1382].\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.48 : Min word..Maʒʒ hellpenn þa þatt redenn itt To sen & tunnderrstanndenn All þess te bettre, hu þeʒʒm birrþ Þe Goddspell unnderrstanndenn.\nc1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)167 : Heo saiʒ gilbertus wille, þat it was so guod.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2410 : His folk þat sau and herde, Hwou robert with here louerd ferde.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)7236 : Hii seye þe soþnesse, In wuch lecherie & oþer sunne þe prestes songe hor messe.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.16.4 : Sche [Agar], seeing here self þat sche hadde conceyuyd, dispyside here lady.\n(c1390) Chart.Abbey HG (LdMisc 210)341 : Þat seiʒþ Eue, þat he was þere, & as a greet fool leet hym inne.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)1987 : I wil þat ʒee it see, þat bituix adam and noe þe time was euer ilik grene.\n?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.15 : The Walsch men it sauh, it mot no better be.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.468 : I se ensamples my-self..Þat seruauntes þat seruen lordes selden falle in arrerage.\nc1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)209 : He seʒ noʒt bot hymself, how semly he were.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)4670 : Men amed þem & wel hit sowe, Two so many Bretons þare As hadde þer Iulius Cesare.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)266 : Sone as hire selfe it sawe, at he hire sa behaldis, Þen scho talkis him to.\nc1450 Manners Honor (Lamb 853)31 : Medle not with mysrule..For y haue ofte seen þis in fay, Þat fro manye men he haþ manhode refte.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)666 : Oure god þat þou brentist or he, Wheþer is þe bettir, þat wolde I see.\nben sene, to be perceived or discovered; also, be clear or evident: (a) with noun or pron. as subj.; (b) with noun clause as subj.; (c) with hit as grammatical subj. and noun clause as semantic subj.; (d) with hit or that as subj., used with reference to the general sense of a preceding or following statement; -- also without hit or that.\nc1390 Cato(1) (Vrn)300 : Wraþþe destruyeþ monnes wit Whon soþ may not beo seiʒene.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.645 : She made a mewe And couered it with veluettes blewe In signe of trouthe that is in wommen sene.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)3909 : So shal hys wraþ on hem be sene Þat here wyl nat forʒeue he[re] tene.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12410 : Þis tre þai drou sa þaim bi-tuin þat son þar was a maistre sene [Göt: sine].\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)14.96 : It [sin] neuere eft is seen ne sore, but semeth a wounde yheled.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6806 : On hem is lytel thrift sene.\n?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)28/27 : In euery membre 9 þinges were to be seyne.\nc1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)4017 : The sothe shal to the be sene.\n?c1450(?c1390) ?Chaucer Merc.B.(Benson-Robinson)10 : With my deeth the trouthe shal be sene.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)1141 : One grete grace in that labours [read: labour] is seyne.\nc1500 Castle Love(3) (Ashm 61)215 : The ij lawys of paradys..And þat of þe mounte of Synay..That he held neuer wiþouten les, In whom was se oure wekyd wrynke.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)2547 : Þær wass full sene þatt ʒho wass All full off soþ clænnesse.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)370 : Nov be sen ʒif þou art hende; Þurth ous þou art in þi power.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.342 : Ofte is sen that mochel slowthe..Doth mochel harm.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)2209 : Þurrh whatt itt shollde sene ben Þatt ʒho wass Godd full cweme, He seʒʒde þatt ʒho shollde ben Off Haliʒ Gast wiþþ childe.\na1275 *St.Marg.(2) (Trin-C B.14.39)113 : Nou it scal ben sene up on wam þou leuest ant wi þou art so kene.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1173 : Sene it was ðat ghe was fair wif Quan ghe was luued in so long lif.\nc1450(?a1405) Lydg.CBK (Frf 16)437 : Hit is seen by myn oppressed chere..That safe the dethe I no thing abide.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1602 : Ʒyf Artours knyʒt kan craft, Now hyt schall be sene!\na1300 Bestiary (Arun 292)356 : Seftes sop ure seppande, sene is on werlde, leiðe & loldike [read: lodlike].\na1350 Wynter wakeneþ (Hrl 2253)13 : Al þat gren me graueþ grene, nou hit faleweþ al bydene; Iesu, help þat hit be sene, ant shild vs from helle.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.789 : In proverbe..Men sein, ful selden is that welthe Can soffre his oghne astat in helthe, And that was on the Lombardz sene.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)10190 : Aftyr þey are of synne clene, So shal hyt on hem be sene.\na1425(a1396) Maidstone PPs. (Wht)674 : God hath housed Syon, And yn his blisse hit schal be sowen Wan holi chirche be maad on Yn hevene.\na1425 *York MGame [OD col.] (Dgb 182)xxxii : The other hertes..renne vponn hym and sle hym; And þat is see and sothe.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)92b/a : Y wille sette ensaumpel..of þe maner of curacioun..þat it mowe be sene þe more clerlie.\na1450(?c1350) Pride Life (ChrC-Dub)357 : It is wrong þe ric knyt Al þat þe por dot; Far þat is sen day and nit.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)474 : Sum gude, sum ill, sum eueyn bitweyn, Als es in ilk a-semble sene.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)54/108 : Rych men do showe oftyn tyme pompe and pride On halydays, as oftyn is sene, Whan pore men passe.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)2950 : It ledis vnto laithnes and vnlefe werkes And shotis into shame, as shene has ben ofte.\nben sene: (a) to be recognized (as sth., for what one is); ben sene as; (b) with pred.adj.: to seem or appear (good, worthy, hasty, etc.); ben sene in eien; -- also with hit as grammatical subj. and noun clause as semantic subj.; (c) with inf. or pr.ppl.: to seem (to be sth., to speak as if jesting); appear (as fearing God); also, seem good (to sb. to do sth.); ben sene as.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Esd.7.2 : He..as a soþfast man..was seen.\na1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)12 : Þere schuden þei be seen what þei ben; þere schulen þei be tryed.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)11651 : In preson he dyd hym cast, And sayd he suld be sene A lyer at þe last.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 14.36 : Al þat good is seen to þee in þi eeʒen, do.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Esd.2.5 : If it is seen good to þe king..þat þou sende me in to Jude, I beseche to þe cite of þe sepulcre of my fader.\n?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.Lear (Göt Hist 740)484 : I had folke to sustene; Worthy emanges þame I was sene.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1224 : If þar ony vn-bowsum bene, Or prowd in hert, os sum er sene..Twise preuely þai salbe blamyd.\na1450 LDirige(1) (Dgb 102)197 : Short ar mannys dayes sene.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)890 : Ʒe so simple ben seie and semen so pore.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)12502 : A ʒyng chyld ys soft and semly sene.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)818 : Thys on a soper I wyll be seen rycher.\na1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)55/33 : Do he hit noght ouer latly ne ouer hastly, þat he be noght sen hastyf ne slowe.\na1500 Discip.Cler.(Wor F.172)23 : How light it is to bryng furth a lesyng; whi is trowth seen so hard and hevy?\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.19.14 : He was seeyn to hem as pleying to speke.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Esd.7.2 : He..as dredinge god more þan oþere was seen.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Gal.2.9 : James and Cephas, or Petre, and John..weren seyn for to be pileris.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 15.28 : It is seyn to the Hooly Gost and vs for to putte to ʒou no thing more of charge than these nedeful thingis.\n?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)149/16 : If it be seyne [*Ch.(1): it seme] spedynge to þe, drawe it vp slily by þe rote.\nPpl. sene: plain, clear, manifest; comp. senre, more evident.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)166/12 : Þe sawle..eauer se ha is hwittre, se fulðe is senre [Cai: senure] up on hire.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)341 : I be-seche now with saʒez sene Þis melly mot be myne.\na1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)7684 : Þat ilka myle fully contene A thowsand pases or cubites sene.\n(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)66 : Cene, or besene: Apparens, manifestus.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)382/3 : For my noble dedis proved and seyne kynge Arthure made my knyght of the Table Rounde.\n(a) To perceive, realize, discern; understand, know; also of an eye; ~ of, perceive (sb.) mentally; ~ with eien; ppl. seinge, perceiving; ?also, perceptive [quot.: Cursor]; (b) as i se, as) thou seest, as ye haven sene, ye sawe wel, etc.; as thou seest of, as you perceive in the case of (sb.).\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)150/26 : Hi zyeþ briʒtliche..ine hare herten.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Wisd.4.14 : He wente to bringen hym out fro þe myddel of shrewdenesses, puplis forsoþe seeynge [vr. seende] & nat vnderstondinge.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.13.14 : Ʒee seeynge shulen see, and ʒee shulen nat see.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 12.40 : He hath blyndid her yʒen..that thei se not with yʒen and vndirstonde not with herte.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.970 : War thee wel that thou ne lieve Al that thou sest..So as the Gregois whilom syhe.\n(a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)22a/b : Seiynge & vndirstondinge, he knowiþ himself.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14804 : Quen seand men him herd and sagh, Of him þam stod selcut gret agh.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)156/9 : He made blinde here eien and made harde here hertes, þat þei sen not wiþ here eien.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)332/4 : Opene þanne þe iʒe of þin intellecte..& so schalt þou se specialy of hym þat I toolde þee of.\n?c1425(c1390) Chaucer Fort.(Benson-Robinson)37 : Now seestow [vrr. seestowe, seesthow, seist thow, seist] cleer, that were in ignoraunce.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)20/37 : So we wolde do if we sawʒ al cleerly wiþ oure gostly iʒen as we seen wiþ oure fleischly iʒen.\nc1450(c1425) Brut-1419 (Cmb Kk.1.12)356/19 : Alas, for pite, þat such a king [Richard II] myʒt not se!\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)153/9 : Taketh hede restfully and seeth inwardly.\na1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)6407 : He hath only but on Eye, That Symply seth & vnderstondeth.\nc1475(c1447) Epitaph Duke Glo.(Hrl 2251)8 : Sith worship, riches, and al thyng shal pas -- Se be hym buryed in this sepulture.\na1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)51/11 : God..make cleer ʒoure vnderstondynge to persayue þe sacrament of þis science þat ʒe mowe se þer in.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)66 : When thei wold it assay, Thei leys their costis, as men see al day.\na1300 A Mayde Cristes (Jes-O 29)31 : Þus is þes world, as þu mayht seo, Al so þe schadewe þat glyt away.\nc1300 SLeg.Fran.(1) (LdMisc 108)56 : A-rer up min hous an heiʒ, Þat, þou sixt, fallez to grounde.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)92 : Quat bote is to sette traueil On thyng..þat es bot fantum o þis warld, Als ʒe haue sene inogh and herd?\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2137 : O þis thre com all, as þou sais, Has bene in werld and yeit beis.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)12876 : Þis is my loued son..In whom I haue, as ʒe may seen, Euer wel a payed ben.\nc1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)10.182 : Summe, as I se [vrr. seo; here] now, soþ for to telle, For coueitise of catel vnkyndely be maried.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)255/9 : Thei..ben arayed wiþ þat glorious sonne..for to mynystre forþ, as þou maist biholde and se of glorious Gregory.\nc1425 Glo.Chron.A (Hrl 201)p.142 : Þi Lord ys God al one, as we to soþe seþ.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2567 : As longe as he was wythinne þis castel walle, We kepte hym fro synne, ʒe sawe wel alle.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2587 : Of hys presens we were ryth glad; But, as þou seste, he hath forsakyn us sone.\n?a1450(c1380) Chaucer Gent.(Benson-Robinson)16 : Ther may no man, as men may wel see, Bequethe his heir his vertuous noblesse.\n(a) To consider (sb. or sth.), consider the case of, bring to mind; -- also with clause as obj.; alle thinges sene, all things considered; seinge (that, considering that, taking into account that; (b) to investigate (a title, matter, evidence, etc.), look into; (c) ~ of, to find out about (sth.), investigate; let ~ of, let us consider (sth.); (d) with complementary adj. or adj. as noun: to judge or deem (best, fit or best to do; sth. good; sth. best to do; sth. to be good, that sth. is best); hit is sene, it is judged (good for sb. to do sth.); (e) ?to look for (a leader for oneself), ?select.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1977 : Þanne in his rybaudye wole segge many a shrewe, 'Suxtou þulke womman.'\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Rom.11.22 : Se the goodnesse and feersnesse of God.\n(c1400) Gower PP (Eg 2862)276,281 : Beholde and se the world uppon this point..See Alisandre, Ector, and Julius.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)878/65 : Considre & se..Þat Crist Iesus recerved [read: received]..Þe twey Mynutes ʒoue..By þe wydowe.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)372/26 : Biholde & se what louers of pouert han be bifore þee.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)186 : Wherfore, alle thingis seen, this present ve reule or supposicion is trewe.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)50.138 : Now thin Owne levyng here myhtest þou se.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.267 : Seynge þat by suche aduersitee He schulde be myche apayred..he spareþ hym.\nc1450 Palladius (BodAdd A.369)1.20 : This consideraunce Is first to seen, how thyng is of nature In places there thou wilt have the culture.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)179/12 : Aboue alle this, seying thou chargest me so sore, I shall tell the more.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)223/8 : The said vertu for circumstance aught to see tyme and place of yevinge.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)32 : Se how þe hede þe members dayly do magnyfye.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)10/26 : Thanne shalt thou knowe that the issew of thy case is..doubtable, seeng that so many of the olde auncientis..cowde nat..eschewe withowte deth the grette mysauenturis of courte.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)13/24 : I conclude, seenge the feldis may nat be enhabited, that the citees..shuld be enfamyned.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)47 : How canste thou speke Ebrew, seenge that thou art a Grew?\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Esth.12.2 : Whan he..þe besynessis more diligentli hadde seen before, he lernede þat þei enforseden to puttyn hond in to king artaxersen.\n(a1440) Let.Coventry in EHR 55644 : They wol that the Maystur se hit & allowe hit as reson wol.\n(a1444) Doc.in Morsbach Origurk.29 : Hyt plesyd youre grace..to se hys evydennce and title of rygh.\n(a1461) Paston2.225 : Lete the mater be indifferently seyn and vnderstondyn before he procedyth ony ferder ther-jn.\n-?-(1467) Will in Som.RS 16197 : My will is that the lord Clynton and other which makis clayme to diverse of my landes be comeued with, and heir title sayn.\n-?-(1469) Will in Som.RS 16201 : That euery creature that I haue hadde lande of untrieuly..that their titles be seen.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 15.7 : Apostlis and eldre men camen to gidere for to se of this word.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1529 : Vn to daun Iohn he first goth..for to wite and seen of his welfare.\na1425(?a1400) Cloud (Hrl 674)40/1 : Now lat see first of þe vertewe of meeknes.\n?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)56b/a : Now it is to sene off þe sekenesses þat mowe fallen in þe forseide parties.\na1325 *Rwl.Statutes [OD col.] (Rwl B.520)lf.31b : To ben..i publiste, in schirene..ant in oþere sollempne studes, þare þe [?read: þu] seost best forte spede.\na1325 *Rwl.Statutes [OD col.] (Rwl B.520)lf.[?]b : Þat..suuche enquestene..be after þat te Iustises soez best to doinde to þe wille of þe reaume.\na1400(?c1300) LFMass Bk.(Roy 17.B.17)393 : Þo froytes of þe erthe make plenteuus; als þou sees best, ordayn for vs.\n(c1435) Let.Christ Ch.in Camd.n.s.1913 : Hit were best for yow to make iij or iiij acquytaunces, every of ham of x marcs, of xij marcs, or elles of xij li. as ye se fit be to don.\n(1442) Doc.Ireland in RS 69278 : Yyff hyt had ben seyn gode and profitable for you..for to haue had the seyd Erle your Lieutenant, he schold have ben namyd atte seyd Parlement.\nc1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)70 : His Occupacyoun Was fully set..What euere he sauhe the best to Repoorte.\n?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)111 : Cast þer-to oyle of rosis, as mochel as þou seest goode.\n?a1450 MLChrist (Add 39996)5122 : Do what ʒe seen þat is þe beste.\na1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)93/14 : He wold yeve to them licence I-axed, yf he say hit to be goode.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)62b/b : So þat..þou putte al þi bisynes first to þat cause þat þou seest moost nede in þe wounde.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)66/8 : Resoun allowiþ not ooþ..but if resoun se and iuge bifore þat þe dede of affermyng..be honest.\n(a) To look after (sb., flocks, oneself), protect, care for; -- also without obj.; also, in asseverations and greetings: god me (you, him) se, crist (mahoun) the save and se, god the (you) save and se, jesu him save and se; (b) to heed (sth.), pay attention to; also, take care of (a matter), see to; -- also with clause as obj.; (c) to take heed; take heed (lest sth. be done, lest sb. do sth., etc.); also, take care of a matter; (d) ~ to, to be attentive to (sb. or sth.), take care of; be solicitous of (sth.); deal with (sb.); ~ til, attend to (sb. or sth.); ~ unto (upon), take care of (sb.); ben sene to, be provided for; (e) with inf.: to see one's way (to do sth.).\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1663 : Laban bi-tagte him siðen to sen His hirdenesse.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2628 : Quane it [the child Moses] sulde sundred ben, Ghe bar it teremuth for to sen.\na1350(1307) Execution Fraser (Hrl 2253)81 : Sire Edward of carnaruan, iesu him saue and see.\na1350 Most i ryden (Hrl 2253)82 : He myhte sayen þat Crist hym seʒe, þat myhte nyhtes neh hyre leʒe.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 13.9 : Sothli se ʒe ʒou silf, for thei schulen take ʒou in counceils.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)2 John 8 : See ʒe ʒoure silf, lest ʒe leese the thinges that ʒe han wrought.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.156 : Oure emperour of Rome, god hym se, A doghter hath.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.85 : Quod Pandarus, 'Madame, God yow see [vr. saue & se].'\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5693 : An vsurer, so god me se, Shal neuere for richesse riche be.\nc1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)157 : Þe lady sayd, 'So God me see, Þou arte a gud knyght.'\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)127/33 : Sirs! god yowe saffe ande see.\na1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)4824 : To Seyn Iohan I leve also, That he may han perseueraunce To sen me in my gret suffraunce.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)41 : Þerfor hem see pore men, þat þei grucche not aʒen God, but be glad of þer pornes..And se hem religious, þat þei feyn not falsly pouert.\na1500(a1400) Libeaus (Lamb 306)46 : Kyng Arthure, Criste þe saue and see!\nc1450(?a1400) Chestre Launfal (Clg A.2)253 : 'Damesels,' he seyde, 'God yow se!'\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)82/127 : Mahowne the saue and se, sir syryne.\na1500 Bevis (Chet 8009)8/135 : He..said, 'Madam, god the saue and see!'\na1350 Suete ihu king (Hrl 2253)44 : Y preye þe..þat my bone be nou sene.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 4.24 : Se ʒee what ʒee heeren.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 8.18 : Se ʒe hou ʒe heeren.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16488 : 'Ha we noght þar-of to do,' coth þai, 'þou sal þi-self it se.'\n(1442) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 7116 : For makyng of ye weyys to se ye rep[ar]acyo[n] of ye cherche and stone there to, vii s. vi d.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)42/77 : Luke þat þi semes be suttilly seyn.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4478 : God seʒis oure saʒes for his son at in him-selfe duellis.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)61 : Seþ wat ʒe do, vse ʒe not þe dome to oftun but of God.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)151/9 : Nature hath obliged..you..to se the saluacion of the comon wele.\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)151 : The swyne is a synner, that..foylithe the comaundementes of god, ne sethe hem not in no place.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Esd.4.22 : Seeþ, lest necgligentli þis be fulfild.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.27.5 : What to vs? se thou.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 13.33 : Se ʒe, wake ʒe and preie ʒe.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Cor.8.9 : Se ʒe forsoth, lest perauenture this ʒoure leue be maad hirtinge..to syke men.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)16488 : 'What is þat to vs,' þei seide, 'þi seluen þou maist se.'\na1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)Rom.11.21 : See þou, last by hap he spare not þee.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1996 : Biseche him he se þer tille.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.34.23 : Rijs & see to my dom.\n1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.51 : Afterward, men seende to þe deuocioun don in holy chirche..askynd [read: askyd] þe fraternite..to mayntene..þe forseyd ymage.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)10304 : Fastinge he was in wille to be Til god wolde to [Ld: tylle] him se.\n(1406) EEWills13/31 : Yef outgh come to Thomas Roos, than y pray Iohan Wodcok to se to my son.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4992 : Doth ʒour deuer..goodly for to se To his knyʒthod..For to restreyne his renomed noblesse.\n(?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.3614 : Oon ther was which hadde gouernaunce Vpon this child tawaiten and to see.\n(a1440) Let.Coventry in EHR 55644 : He prieth you..that ye wole see to this mater.\nc1440 C.d'Orl.So fayre (Paris fr.25458)222/72 : Y pray yow, sethe to my greuance And put osyde all myn aduersite.\n(1442) Visit.Alnwick230b : Also that ye diligently see to thoe of your susters that of freyle[te] hafe fallen here afore, that thai hafe none occasyone..to falle here aftere.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)492 : Pes, pepyl..Syth and sethe wel to my sawe.\n(1450) Lin.DDoc.42/4 : Item, Alyson Swayn..that she be well see to of clothing and bedding.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)18181 : A, sun, see to þi moþer here!\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1130/27 : They were layde inwyth draughtes by hir chambir..that she myght herselff se unto them that they wanted nothynge.\n?a1475 In a tabernacle (Dc 322)68 : Than, synfull man, see thow to thys, what day þou comest, welcome thow ys.\n(?c1475) Let.Christ Ch.in Camd.n.s.1919 : My Lady Duches of Burgunde was not seen to, as by way of some goodly gyfte.\na1500(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Dub 213)27/754* : Þan says he to hys seruand to see to þis capyll.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4833 : To hir he wolde pleyne Of his dissese..Preiynge of grace þat she wolde se Vpon his wo for to han pite.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.3962 : He þanked hath þe noble hardy quene Of hir goodnes þat hir lyste to sene To helpyn hym.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)12/331 : Me forto comfort ye lust not see.\n(a) To ensure (a redress); make sure (sth. is in a specified condition); refl. make oneself (safe); (b) with clause as obj.: to make sure (sb. does sth., that sb. does sth., that sth. is done, etc.), take care.\na1400 Cato(3) (Frf 14)92 : Qua-sim-euer þou be þat wille þi-self safe se..loke..þou kepe þi corage fra ille tecchis rife.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.627 : To hold hem grene, ek chargeth Columelle, Ther rootes in see froth wrapped to se.\n-?-(1467) Will in Som.RS 16197 : I will that if any man have been wronfully doone to..that therin ye see a redresse.\nc1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)27/452 : Haue her þis cuppe..To Aylbrus..& se he holde foreward.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.7.4 : Þou shalt seyn to hym, 'See þat þou holde þi pes.'\n(1412) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.50 : On condicyoun..yat thay see and ordayne yat thys forsayde doghter be enfeffed.\n(1420) EEWills48/5 : Y pray myn executours þat they..se þat they take this charge on heme.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)253 : Se ʒe that in ʒoure vndirnymyng ʒe bere ʒou discreetli.\nc1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)78/11 : He þat giffis it [gift] suld se þat he þatt he gaff it to war able for to take it.\n(1468) Paston1.540 : I beseche yow þat ye wolbe good mastras to my lytyll man and to se þat he go to scole.\na1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)587 : On youre lordes trenchere se þat it be do.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)41 : Ilk man see þat he bring not him self synfully in to pouert.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)187/1 : See that thou can lyue Of Lytill mette and Drynke.\na1500(a1469) Let.Marg.Anjou in Camd.86 (Add 46846)69 : We therfore write unto you..charging you that..ye see and ordeyne that the said B. and his servants kepe surely oure paix.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)82/28 : For bycause that thei haue this fantasy, the doctours sayne [vr. seyne] that thei be brought lowe and vndir in their mysbeleve.\na1500 Hisp.SSecr.(Rwl C.83)5/24 : When þu art sett att þi mete, se þi metis be holsum.\n1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.214 : The comon weale..euery prince shuld se wer wel obserued.\n(a) To experience (sth., adventure, an adventure, an emotion, a state, etc.); receive (judgment); achieve (mastery, vengeance, perfection, a desire); reach (an end); suffer (death, pain); endure (the heat of a fire); (b) ~ dai, to live to see the day; also, experience the day (when sth. happened); ~ god daies, experience pleasant days, enjoy a good life; ~ time (tide), live to see the time, experience a time; (c) ppl. sene, experienced, undergone; ben sene; (d) to know of (the life of sb. having been lost); also, with inf.: know about (sb. being harmed); (e) ?to absorb; ?experience fully.\nc1300(?c1225) Horn (Cmb Gg.4.27)37/650 : Heo ferde in to bure To sen auenture.\nc1300 SLeg.Brendan (Hrl 2277:Horst.)204 : Somdel oure suete louerdes miʒte we [birds] seoþ, & bi þe vrþe we fleoþ.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)956 : He sulde in pine ben And uten-erdes sorge sen.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6236 : We fiʒteþ & beþ ouercome & no maistrie we ne seþ.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Job 9.25 : My daiys swiftere weren þan a corour; þei flown & þei seʒen no good.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 2.26 : He schal not se deeth, no but he saiʒ first the Crist of the Lord.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.61 : He schavede nevere his heed..er he seigh wreche of Hanybal.\nc1390 11 Pains(3) (Vrn)236 : He haþ seʒen his Iuggement.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)3994 : Þey are not wurþy any ioye to se.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)18.212 : God..Bycam man of a mayde, mankynde to saue, And suffred to be solde to see þe sorwe of deyinge.\nc1400 Bible SNT(1) (Selw 108 L.1)Heb.11.5 : Enoch was translated, þat he ne seyʒ noʒt deþ.\na1425 Siege Troy(1) (LinI 150)158/2002 : For care and sorwe þe kyng saw [vr. saye] þat day, He feol to grounde.\nc1425 *Wycl.Concord.(Roy 17.B.1)126b : I shal not see mornyng, apoc., eiʒtenþe cap.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)50.736 : Many Aventures hauen ʒe seen.\nc1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)1998 : Sitte down here by one assorte, And better myrthe never ye saye.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)91/15 : He hadde not anone his desire but it was delayed þat he sygh it afterward.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)159/36 : They come frome kynge Arthurs courte for to se aventures.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)59 : Rest and tranqwyllyte he xall sene, And dey in sekyrnes of joy perpetuall.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)5/22 : He wold tell to relygyous men þe payne þat he segh.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)5/29 : Þe fyre of hell..was so hote þat als ferre as he myght seen hit, hym þoght he brennet for hete.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)783 : Many men..euyre calle vpon to see an ende, Whiche is temptacion of the feende.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)2370 : The purire that your meenys be, The more perfeccion therof ye shalle se.\na1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)10492 : A childe..is boþe tendre and grene And of þis world haþ no þing sene.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.33.13 : Who is þe man þat wile lijf, looueþ to seen goode daiys?\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)447 : Ilhail sagh he þat tide Agains him he tok a pride.\nc1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)207/15 : Þe Kyng..prayede God þat he might see þat day to bene avengede of þe deþ of þe forsaide Piers.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1133 : Seye hym eke he schal þe tyme se Þat he par-avnter schal mow þanked be.\na1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)1693 : Sire, wiþowte wene Þat day schaltow neuer seone.\n?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.Lear (Göt Hist 740)460 : Qwedyr I sall nevyr þe dayes abyd Me wrekyd in erth to se þe tyd?\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)96 : Whilk man is he þat lyf wyl haue And se gude days, hys saule to saue?\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)63/1851 : A hath be wont more fressher forto be In tyme that y afore this day haue sayne.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)199/1530b : Alas, alas..That I now this day now se.\na1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)6132 : I saw neuer that day sithe I was born..That euer I medled with soo good a kyng.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)13 : Þis semly somers day, In winter it is nouʒt sen.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)13981 : Ionas was yll dysplessed with hete of þe sun..Als yt in somer seson is sene.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)16856 : Vnto his howse wyghtly he wan, and þor was sorowyng sadly seyne.\nc1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.44 : Better is herde sorow þan seen.\na1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)2872 : Ne pees shall ther neuer be sayne Or thy sydes be throw sought.\nc1410(c1350) Gamelyn (Hrl 7334)146 : For to seen þe haue harm, it were me right loþ.\na1500 Awntyrs Arth.(Dc 324)470 : I nolde, for no lordeshippe, se þi life lorne.\na1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)31b/b : Haurio: to wasten or seon [vr. videre] or helden or smiten or here or sowpe or empten or dryen or do owte or drynkyn.\nTo appear; appear (wise), seem; also [quot.: ?a1425(c1380)], be clear, be apparent; -- ?error for semen v.(2).\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)22141 : He sal do mani signe to sene, þat man ne has of forwit sene.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.m.11.28 : Al the derknesse of his mysknowynge shall seen more evydently to the sighte of his undirstondynge than the sonne ne semeth to the sighte withoute-forth.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4704 : He þat seʒis to vs sage ʒe bot a sott call.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.552 : I hadde the bettre leyser..for to se and eek for to be seye of lusty folk.\n(?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.2812 : That seelde is seyn, in loue doth appall.\nc1450(c1415) Roy.Serm.(Roy 18.B.23)77/31 : Seldon seyn is sone forʒette.\nc1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.52 : Seldun say, sone for-ʒete.\nc1460 Ipom.(3) (Lngl 257)326/36 : Seldom seen, sone forgetyn.\nc1450 Bk.GGrace (Eg 2006)207/7 : Ihesu att þat tyme offrede…gyfte neuere before…seene in heuene, allebehitt was knawe before and syene in þe godhede.\n(c1475) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV (Hrl 642)61 : Them owght among to helpe see the Kinge and soveraynes served.\nNote: ?Add. construction.\na1325 *Rwl.Statutes [OD col.] (Rwl B.520)lf.31 b : To ben…i publiste, in schirene in Citees…ant in oþere sollempne studes þare þe seost best for te spede.\nNote: (Copied verbatim. A note on the OD slip says 'copied fr. Mr. Whitwell's slip.')\nc1400 ?Nassyngton SV (Cmb Ll.1.8)214 : Et ne nos inducas in temtationen! In þis we aske som slecke to se Aʒeyn al ille þat may be.\nNote: sen ayen, =?to guard against; ?recognize.--per REL.\nc1450 Bk.GGrace (Eg 2006)183/22 : This maydene knewe wele þat the grete hows was the herte of God, for sche hadde ful ofte syne hym in that manere of fourme.\n(c1475) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV (Hrl 642)22 : Furst, for the edyfying and comfort of all officers in this household…the Kyng…hathe, of his high excellent grace, commaunded specially three things to be seen to, by the rulers of this court.\na1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)98 : O blissid Albon fro the celestial stage, Cast don thi liht tenlymyne my langage, Which of mysilf am nakid & beryn, In this gret neede that favour may be seyn.