’„, in þe apparaile of a pore man and pilgrymes lyknesse 

Many tyme god hath ben mette.’

—from William Langland’s Piers Plowman, ca. 1390

(þ is the middle english letter for ‘th’. ð was also replaced by ‘th’. Ben Johnson in his English Grammar(1640) was mad as hell with the trend to use ‘th’ for both these letters, which he said had needfully different sounds. But þat is the way ðings rolled.)