What is "privily"

Usage examples of "privily".

And eke men brought him out of his country From year to year full privily his rent.

And after that a tub, and a kemelin, And privily he sent them to his inn: And hung them in the roof full privily.

He shoulde kiss his erse ere that he scape: And up the window did he hastily, And out his erse he put full privily Over the buttock, to the haunche bone.

Out at the door he went full privily, When that he saw his time, softely.

Lordings, the time wasteth night and day, And steals from us, what privily sleeping, And what through negligence in our waking, As doth the stream, that turneth never again, Descending from the mountain to the plain.

Let privily her council go their way: Why should I in this tale longer tarry?

Had privily unto the Greekes told, Where that her husband hid him in a place, For which he had at Thebes sorry grace.

What I may get in counsel privily, No manner conscience of that have I.

Soon after this, a furlong way or two, He privily hath told all his intent Unto a man, and to his wife him sent.

But for to keep them privily and still, Till I thy purpose knew, and all thy will.

For, God it wot, I have wept many a tear Full privily, since I have had a wife.

Meliboeus in his council many folk, that privily in his ear counselled him certain thing, and counselled him the contrary in general audience.

Warmly approving the counsel that in all this business Meliboeus should proceed with great diligence and deliberation, Prudence goes on to examine the advice given by his neighbours that do him reverence without love, his old enemies reconciled, his flatterers that counselled him certain things privily and openly counselled him the contrary, and the young folk that counselled him to avenge himself and make war at once.

When Dame Prudence had heard the answer of these men, she bade them go again privily, and she returned to her lord Meliboeus, and told him how she found his adversaries full repentant, acknowledging full lowly their sins and trespasses, and how they were ready to suffer all pain, requiring and praying him of mercy and pity.

And yet, for all his pomp and all his might, Judith, a woman, as he lay upright Sleeping, his head off smote, and from his tent Full privily she stole from every wight, And with his head unto her town she went.