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(
s.xii1; MS: c.1145
) Ne voilez estre fait sicum chaval e mul [...]. En chevestre e en frain lur maixeles cunstrain
Oxf PsANTS 59.31.12
(
1160-74; MS: s.xvii
)
Mout voissiez [...] les chevals dez estables lor fessoient saillir, Nes pooient pessons ne chevestre tenir
Rom de Rouwace i 70.1653
(
1212; MS: 1212-13
)
s’eust por frein chievestre E deus ou trois pels de moutons En leu de saele
Dial GregSATF 1456
(
1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4
)(Maud is captured) Et Robert sun frere demort en lur chevestre
LANGTOFT wright i 486
se juer en chevestre
to rule the roost:
(
s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1
)
Par tot estey sire e mestre. Mes ore me juhe en chevestre, Kaunt la cité Acre ay pris, Dount jeo me su mult entremis (var. (B: c.1330) Kaunt tuz pays e regnez A ma devise sunt guyez)BOZLett 58
chevestre (s.xii1)