Talk:might and main

Earliest usage of this phrase
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/might-and-main.html This website claims that the earliest known usage of this phrase is "in Old English from the late 13th century." That seems likely to me, but the earliest version I can verify is from the late 14th century poem Siege of Jerusalem.

But more þing in our mode  myneþ today,

þat by resoun to Rome  þe realte fallyþ,

Boþe þe myȝt and þe mayn,  maistre and oþer,

And lordschip of eche londe  þat liþe vnder heuen. (SoJ lines 509 - 512) Ilovemiddleenglish (talk) 21:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)