 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 512 pages
...And in thare saying it semes nocht. That thou may here in Sir Tristrem, Over gestes it has the steme. Over all that is or was ; If men it said as made Thomas, &c. It appears, from a very curious MS. of the thirteenth century, penes Mr Douce, of London, containing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 200 pages
...And in thare saying it semes nocht. That thou may here in Sir Tristrem, Over gestes it has the steme. Over all that is or was; If men it said as made Thomas, &c. It appears, from a very curious MS. of the thirteenth century, penes Mr Douce of London, containing... | |
 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 464 pages
...written about this time ; because Robert de Brunne expressly mentions two poets, ERCELDOOK and K END ALE, as excelling in this mode of writing, and says of...a crowd of competitors, is supposed to- be Thomas Lerraont of Ercildoun, or Erceldoune, a village in Tweedale, generally known by the honourable appellation... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 306 pages
...And in thare saying it semes nochtThat thon may here in Sir Tristrem, Over gestes it has the steme, Over all that is or was ; If men it said as made Thomas, &c. It appears from a very curious MS. of the thirteenth century, penes Mr. Douce of London, containing... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 284 pages
...And in thare saying it semes nocht, That thou may here in Sir Tristrem, Over gestes it has the steme, Over all that is or was; If men it said as made Thomas, &c. French metrical romance of Sir Tristrem, that the work of our Thomas the Rhymer was known, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...And in thare saying it semes nocht, That thou may here in Sir Tristrem, Over gestes it has the steme, Over all that is or was ; If men it said as made Thomas," &c. It appears, from a very curious MS. of the thirteenth century, penes Mr Douce of London, containing... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 pages
..." Sir Tristrem ;" of which Robert of Brunne, an excellent judge ! [in the place above cited] says, Over gestes it has th 'esteem, Over all that is or was, If men it sayd as made THOMAS. Translators (55), of the popular Poems, which (from their having been -originally... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - English poetry - 1835 - 368 pages
...Caxton, 1493, lib. vi. fol. c.xxxix. Robert de Brunne, speaking of the romance of Sir Tristram, says that Over gestes it has th' esteem : Over all that is or was, If men it said, as made Thomas.* See Ellin. Supposed to I)H Thomas of Krcildoune, (he Khymer. ALAIN CHARTIER. (Page 108.) ' La Gentille... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1845 - 382 pages
...story-book) were written about this time ; because Robert de Brunne expressly mentions two poets, EHCELDOUN and KENDALE, as excelling in this mode of writing,...all that is or was, If men it said, as made Thomas 1. The bard who is thus distinguished from a crowd of competitors, is supposed to be Thomas Lermont... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1851 - 604 pages
...Tristrem ; " of which Robert of Brunne, an excellent judge ! [in the place above cited] ays. Over gustos it has th 'esteem, Over all that Is or was, If men it layd as made THOMAS. " See Dr. Percy's carious Catalogue o/ Enaltlh Metrical Komancei. prefixed to... | |
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Thomas, &c. It appears, from a very curious MS. of the thirteenth century, penes Mr Douce, of London, containing a French metrical romance of Sir Tristrem, that the work of our Thomas the Rhymer was known, and referred to, by the minstrels of Normandy... 
