Hyghe

Great Regulars: The alliterative form is remarkably flexible across a range of tones and subjects, but my favourite passages have always been the evocations of bleak northern weather and terrain that permeate the poem: "The werbelande wynde wapped fro the hyghe/And drof uch dale ful of dryftes ful grete" adapted by Simon Armitage as "then a whip-cracking wind comes whistling between hills/Driving snow into deepening drifts in the dales". ❋ Rus Bowden (2007)

And every gerner hathe a zate, for to entre with inne, a lytille hyghe fro the erthe. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In this contree ben righte hyghe hilles, toward the ende of Macedonye. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Excalibur on hyghe, and smote Syr Arthur suche a buffet that he felle nyhe to the erthe. ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)

Receyue mercyfull Ihesu this hyghe & holy sacryfyce to the comfort of all [that] ben on lyue & deed/& wouchesauf this daye [that] it be to vs & to all them a synguler refresshynge & feest/that we so releued [with] this brede of lyue & lambe Inmaculate/borne of the blessyd virgyn Mary may Ioye in thy laude & glorye eternally. ❋ Thomas Betson (N/A)

¶ And for as moche that by the holy ordynaunce the consecracyon therof & offerynge vp to thy hyghe mageste for the quycke and deed oonly belongeth to the order of preesthode. ❋ Thomas Betson (N/A)

Botte soare on hyghe, & yn the sonne-bemes sheene; ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

Wythe pillars large, and spyre full hyghe and rounde. ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

Beware also of vayne glory/lyftynge vp your vysage & voyce on hyghe as wymen done in the worlde. ❋ Thomas Betson (N/A)

Aboune [74] the hyghe empryze [75], & rouze the champyones strayte. ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

For beyng neyghbours, and the husbande manye tymes absent, the hyghe waye was open to bryng their enterpryses to desired affecte. ❋ William Painter (N/A)

¶ Beware to be Inquysytyf/or to muse on hyghe maters and subtyll. ❋ Thomas Betson (N/A)

Thie wordes are greate, full hyghe of sound, and eeke ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

¶ Beware of hyghe speche & clamorous/and see that thy wordes be fewe well sette & resonable. ❋ Thomas Betson (N/A)

Wythe dreerie dynn enswolters [90] the hyghe stronde, ❋ Thomas Chatterton (N/A)

Their danses vvhich they vse att their hyghe feastes. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Theirdanses vvhich they vse att their hyghe feastes. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Their danses whych they vse at their hyghe feastes. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Person 1: [I'm high] Person 2: I'm higher [Person 3]: I'm the highest. Person 1: now I'm really [hygh] Person 2: I'm hygher Person 3: I'm the hyghest Everyone: Guess we all just hygh as heaven! ❋ The Most Hygh (2021)

Damn, [Kenny] is [high as hell]. No, Kenny as [hygh] as heaven. ❋ The Most Hygh (2021)