 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 766 pages
...profered medc. For sum folk wol be wonnon for ricbesse, AM . -.mil for strokes, and torn with gentillesse. Somtime to shew his lightnesse and maistrie He plaieth Herode on a skaffuld hie. But what availeth him as in this cas ? So loreth she this bendy Nicholas, That Absnlon... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 pages
...still keep possession of the stage. The traces of resemblance apparent in the English 9 " Sometime to shew his lightnesse and maistrie, " He plaieth Herode on a skaffold hie." Ver. 3383. 1 Hist. Eng. Poet. i. 242. 1 " In pagentes set fourth, apparently to all eyne, " The Olde... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 388 pages
...profered mede. For som folk wol be wonnen for richesse, And soro for strokes, and som with gentillesse. Somtime to shew his lightnesse and maistrie He plaieth Herode on a skaffold hie. But what availeth him as in this cas? So loveth she this bendy Nicholas, That Absolon may blow the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt - 1822 - 372 pages
...For som folk wol be wonnen for richesse, And some for strokes, and some with gentillesse. Sometime to shew his lightnesse and maistrie He plaieth Herode on a skaffold hie. But what availeth him as in this cas ? So loveth she this hendy Nicholas, That Absolon may blow the... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1841 - 464 pages
...alluded to at p. 290. P. 275, 1. 28. Xad.] So in MS., but probably shad, as I do not find .!• for sh in any similar case. P. 289, 1. 20. Takyn his scaffalde.]...Dissertation on the Coventry Mysteries, p. 17, and Reliquiae Antique, vol. ip 322. P. 297, 1. 13. Et cantabit gallus.] This was accomplished by one of the company,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1845 - 348 pages
...profered mede. For som folk wol be wonnen for richesse, And som for strokes, and som with gentillesse. Somtime to shew his lightnesse and maistrie He plaieth Herode on a skaffold hie. But what availeth him as in this cas ? ' So loveth she this hendy Nicholas, That Absolon may blow the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1851 - 604 pages
...profcred mede. For som folk wol be wonnen for richesse, And som for strokes, and som with gentillesse. And she But what availeth him as in this cas I So loveth she this hendy Nicholas, That Absolon may blow the... | |
 | 1853 - 770 pages
...1. 28. Xad.] So in MS., but probably shad, as I do not find x for sh in any similar case. P. 289.1. 20. Takyn his scaffalde.] We have an early notice...and Reliquiae Antiquae, vol. ip 322. P. 297, 1. 13. Et cantabit gallus.] This was accomplished by one of the company, and a proficiency in the imitation... | |
 | Thomas Amyot, John Payne Collier, William Durrant Cooper, Alexander Dyce, Barron Field, Thomas Wright - English drama - 1853 - 782 pages
...alluded to at p. 290. P. 275, 1. 28. Xad.] So in MS., but probably shad, as I do not find .c for sfi in any similar case. P. 289, 1. 20. Takyn his scaffalde.]...Dissertation on the Coventry Mysteries, p. 17, and Reliquise Antiquae, vol. ip 322. P. 297, 1. 13. Et cantabit gallus.] This was accomplished by one of... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1854 - 650 pages
...profered mede. For som folk wol be wonnen for richesse, And som for strokes, and som with gentillesse. Somtime to shew his lightnesse and maistrie He plaieth Herode on a skaffold hie.5 But what availeth him as in this cas ? So loveth she this hendy Nicholas, That Absolon may blow... | |
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He singeth brokking as a nightingale. He sent hire pinnes, methe, and spiced ale, And wafres piping hot out of the glede : And for she was of toun, he profered mede. For som folk wol be wonnen for richesse, And som for strokes, and som with gentillesse.... 
