 In our forefathers tyme, whan Papistrie, as a standyng poole, couered and ouerflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our long, sauyng certaine bookes of Cheualrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries,...  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. ... - Page 436by Walter Scott - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Thomas (of Ercildoune, called the Rhymer.) - 1804 - 514 pages
...few bookes " were red in our toong, savying certayne bookes of chivalrie, as " they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were " made in monasteries...monkes or wanton chanons. As " one, for example, Morte Arthurc, the whole pleasure of whiche " booke standeth in twospecyall poyntes; in open mans slaughtre,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...fewe bookcs were read in our long, savyng certaine bookes of Chcvalrie, as they said, for pastime, and pleasure-, which, as some say, were made in monasteries...monkes or wanton chanons, as one for example, Morte Arlhure : the whole pleasure of which booke standeth in two speciall poyntes : in open manslaughter... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 508 pages
...England, few books were read in our tongue, saving certain books of chivalry, as they said, for pastime and pleasure ; which, as some say, were made in monasteries, by idle monks, or wanton canons : for example, Morte Arthur, the whole pleasure of which book standeth in two... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 508 pages
...England, few books were read in our tongue, saving certain books of chivalry, as they said, for pastime and pleasure ; which, as some say, were made in monasteries, by idle monks, or wanton canons : for example, Morte Arthur, the whole pleasure of which book standeth in two... | |
 | Samuel Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - English literature - 1810 - 648 pages
...England, few bookes were red in our toong, sailing cortayne bookes of chivalrie, as they sayd for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monkes or wanton channons: as one for example, Morte Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeih in two specyall... | |
 | Thomas (the Rhymer) - Fore-edge painting - 1811 - 568 pages
...which, as some say, were made in monaste" ries by idle monkes or wanton chanons. As one, for ex" ample, Morte. Arthure, the whole pleasure of whiche booke...*' standeth in two specyall poyntes ; in open mans slanghtre, " and bolde bawdrie : in which bookes those be counted the " noblest knightes thate do kill... | |
 | Roger Ascham - Archery - 1815 - 428 pages
...England, few books were read in our tongue, saving certain books of chivalry, as they said for pastime and pleasure; which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monks or wanton canons. As one for example, Marts Arthur ; the whole pleasure of which book standeth... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 546 pages
...few bookes were red in our " toong, savyng certayne bookes of chivalrie, as they sayd, " for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in " monasteries...monkes or wanton chanons. As one, " for example, Morte Arthvre, the whole pleasure of whiche " booke standeth in two spccyall poyntes ; in open mans " slaughtre,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1824 - 504 pages
...England, few bookes were red in our toong, sauyng certayne Bookes of Chiualrie, as they sayd for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monasteries...monkes or wanton chanons : as one for example, MORTE ARTHUR, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth in two specyall poyntes, in open mans slaghter and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...fewe bookes were read in our tongue, savying certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they said for pastime and pleasure ; which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monks, or wanton chanons. As for example, La Morte d' Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth... | |
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