Altenglische Sprachproben: Nebst Einem Wörterbuche, Volume 2, Part 2Wiedmannsche Buchhandlung, 1885 |
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Page 239 - Cristes curs mot he have that clepeth me gadelyng ! I am no worse gadelyng, ne no worse wight, But born of a lady, and geten of a knight.
Page 433 - Wrastling with laddes, putting of ston, Harping and piping, ful god won, Leyk of mine, of hasard ok...
Page 305 - What profrestow thi light here for to selle? Go selle it hem that smale selys grave We wol the nought, us nedeth no day have.
Page 10 - For he that wil pupplische ony thing to make it openly knowen, he wil make it to ben cryed and pronounced in the myddel place of a Town...
Page 396 - Unnethe is nu eny man that can eny craft, That he nis a party los in the haft; For falsnesse is so fer forth over al the londe i-sprunge...
Page 423 - Come hider, love, to me. This sompnour bar to him a stif burdoun, Was nevere trompe of half so gret a soun. This pardoner hadde heer as yelwe as wex, But smothe it heng, as doth a strike of flex; By unces hynge his lokkes that he hadde, And therwith he his schuldres overspradde.
Page 167 - Where wyste3 pou euer any bourne abate, Euer so holy in hys prayere, pat he ne forfeted by sum kyn gate pe mede sumtyme of heuene3 clere?
Page 250 - Nolde it nought maken that boas half, as I trowe. Than cam I to that cloystre, and gaped abouten, Whough it was pilered and peynt and...
Page 34 - And right anoon, ministres of that toun Han hent the carter, and so sore him pyned, And eek the hostiler so sore engyned, That thay biknewe hir wikkednesse anoon, And were an-hanged by the nekke-boon.
Page 467 - That lighter is to fle * the flint Than gete of him in hard or neisshe Only the value of a reisshe Of good in helping of an other, Nought though it were his owne brother. For in the cas of yift and lone Stant every man for him alone.