in poynt to

Phrase

 * 1)  on the brink of, on the verge of, about to
 * 2) * c. 1368,, , as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:
 * "enm"

- Al is ylyche goode to me / Ioy or sorowe wherso hyt be / For I haue felynge in no thynge / But as it were a mased thynge / Alway in poynt to falle a down