Saturday, August 16, 2025

That's not a typo...

Now let see youre cheualrye, for now be ye come to the assay.

—Merlin, or The early history of King Arthur
composed c. 1459


From the Oxford English Dictionary Online:

assay, n.

I.1. 1330–   The trying (of a person or thing); trial imposed upon or endured by any object, in order to test its virtue, fitness, etc.

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