What is "knowen"

Usage examples of "knowen".

Sir, I release thee thy thousand pound, As thou right now were crept out of the ground, Nor ever ere now haddest knowen me.

God you bless, Since ye so muche knowen of that art, Full heartily I pray you tell us part.

Praying our Lord to grante him, that he Mighte once knowen of that blissful life That is betwixt a husband and his wife, And for to live under that holy bond With which God firste man and woman bond.

To save the knight, for ruth and for pity For knowen was the false iniquity.

Thou Aeolus, that is so black, And out thine other trumpet take, That highte Laud, and blow it so That through the world their fame may go, Easily and not too fast, That it be knowen at the last.

And they that hadde knowen her of yore Saw her so weep, and thought it kindeness, And each of them wept eke for her distress.

Crist, which that is to every harm triacle, By certeine meenes ofte, as knowen clerkis, Dooth thyng for certein ende, that ful derk is To mannes wit, that for oure ignorance Ne konne noght knowe his prudent purveiance.

Sire, I releesse thee thy thousand pound, As thou right now were cropen out of the ground, Ne nevere er now ne haddest knowen me.

That in short space his wonted chearefull hewGan fade, and liuely spirits deaded quight:His cheeke bones raw, and eie-pits hollow grew,And brawney armes had lost their knowen might,That nothing like himselfe he seem'd in sight.