Altenglische sprachproben nebst einem wörterbuch: Wörterbuch: 1.-13. lfg. A-Misbileven. (abt. 1-3) 1878-1900Wiedmann, 1888 - English language |
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Page 223 - And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men...
Page 241 - Magothe ; and thei mowe not gon out on no syde. There weren enclosed 22 Kynges with hire peple, that duelleden betwene the Mountaynes of Sythye. There Kyng Alisandre chacede hem betwene tho...
Page 147 - That he was ay biforn and in good state. Now is not that of God a ful fair grace, That such a lewed mannes wit schal pace The wisdom of an heep of lernede men?
Page 436 - And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yet no vileinye ne sayde In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight.
Page 258 - From Burdeux-ward, whil that the chapman sleep. Of nyce conscience took he no keep. If that he foughte, and hadde the heigher hand, By water he sente hem hoom to every land. But of his craft to rikne...
Page 269 - And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
Page 65 - And makith so queynt his robe and faire, That it had hewes an hundred payre, Of gras and flouris, ynde and pers ', And many hewes full dyvers : That is the robe I mene, iwis, Through which the ground to preisen is.
Page 191 - Til wel neigh is sche fallen fro the tre. This faire kynges doughter, Canace, That on hir fynger bar the queynte ryng, Thurgh which sche understood wel every thing That eny foul may in his lydne sayn, And couthe answer him in his lydne agayn...
Page 416 - Tragedie is to seyn a certeyn storie, As olde bokes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in greet prosperitee And is y-fallen out of heigh degree Into miserie, and endeth wrecchedly.
Page 132 - In that Lond, ne in many othere bezonde that, no man may see the Sterre transmontane, that is clept the Sterre of the See, that is unmevable, and that is toward the Northe,. that we clepen the "Lode Sterre.