myckle

His swerde was shorte, and broade, and myckle keene,

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

The Danes have wroughte mee myckle woe ynne syghte,

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Orr onne orr odherr wyll doe myckle [86] scethe [87]

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Bane on, good chieftayn, fyghte wythe wordes of myckle pryde.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

And tore the heaulmes from heades of myckle myghte.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Whyche to thie boddie wylle wurche [77] myckle woe.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

I feere mee, I have wroughte thee myckle woe [92].

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Shee nillynge [40] to take myckle [41] aie dothe hede.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Shee nillynge to take myckle aie dothe hede i.e. 'She unwilling to take much aye doth heed'; 'which is nonsense' says Prof. Skeat.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

In an account of “St. Marie Magdalene's Chapele, by Thomas Rowley,” deposited also in the British Museum, there is the following sentence, which implies much: “Aelle, the founder thereof, was a manne myckle stronge yn vanquysheynge the Danes, as yee maie see ynne mie unwordie Entyrlude of Ella!”

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847