ne

And whan the good quene herde these pyteous tydynges lytel lacked that the ne dyed for sorowe / wherfore all lamentably the began to complayne her sayenge.

1512, Robert Copland, The History of Helyas, Knight of The Swan

This shold haue bene his skuce at the lest / And it ne had bene but good & honest.

c. 1520, Andria by Terence (translation)

O so incessaunt thow ad in thy desyre / For so that thow thy mynde now mayst haue / Thow ne caryst what thow dost requyre.

c. 1520, Andria by Terence (translation)

For he ne had, nor could increase his line.

1550, The Mirror for Magistrates

In geving me to him whom I ne can, ne may, ne ought to love.

1562, Arthur Brooke, The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet

That than I shall not geve therunto faith ne credence, nor therfore put them to any maner ponyssement, before that they or any of them so accused may be at their lawful defence and answer.

1484, Original Letters, King Edward the Fifth, under the direction of his Uncle, to Otes Gilbert, Esq., commanding him to receive Knighthood at the expected Coronation

And therin is no drede nor bytternes ne expences, but therin is pure recreacyon of body and of soule soo it be donn in clene places.

1489, The gouernayle of helthe

Moreouer no man be so hardy to drynk fastyng cold water, ne after that he hath accompanyed wyth a woman, ne after gret trauayle, ne after exersice tyll he haue fyrst rested hym, ne by nyght namely yf he haue do gloue tofore.

1489, The gouernayle of helthe

A false tonge wyll euer Imagyne and saye / That neuer by creature was sayd ne thought.

1500, The Example of Euyll Tongues

For chastyce can he not by daye ne nyght his wyfe but by his betynge maketh lyght and hote the loue bytwene her and her frende.

1509, Wynkyn de Worde, The fyftene joyes of maryage