 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...streit19, This ilke monk leet olde thinges20 pace", And held after the newe world the space22. He yaf s. Spadillio first, unconquerable lord! Led off two captive t nat holy men; Ne that a monk, whan he is recchelees24, Is likned til a fish that is waterlees; 180... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...some-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, 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 ; Ne that a monk, whan he is cloisterlees, Is lykned til a fish that is waterlees ; 180... | |
 | Arthur Francis Leach - Education - 1911 - 650 pages
...venerye ; A manly man, to been an abbot able. Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable. 1895, He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men ; Ne that a monk, when he is cloisterlees, Is lykned til a fish that is waterlees ; This... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1912 - 628 pages
...somdel streyt, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen *, That seith, that...been noon holy men ; » Ne that a monk, whan he is reccheles* Is likned to a fissch that is waterles ; This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre. But... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons, Clem Irwin Orr - Children's plays, American - 1913 - 412 pages
...of the celle. This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, 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; Therfore he was a pricasour aright; Grehoundes he hadde, as swifte as fowel in flight;... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...and somdel8 streyt, This iike monk leet olde thinges pace,9 And helde after the newe world the space. He gaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith,...watirles ; This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre. i Cake. * Stick. • Neat. 4 Furnished with large (green) beads called gauds. ' Excelling all others.... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1916 - 758 pages
...none, a, B, 1; JESPERSEN, Mod. Eng. Gram., II, 1661. Sche dome non harm to no man. MAUNDEV. ') He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, | That seith, that hunters been noon holy men. CHAUC., Cant. Tales, Prol. , 178. Men ought not to leue none euyll vnpunysshed. CAXTON , Fables of... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1914 - 152 pages
...or story. 39. somwhat of huntyng : the Monk's favourite pursuit was hunting. Cf. Prologue : ' He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen That seith, that hunters been nat holy men ; Greyhoundes he hadde, as swifte as fowel in flight, Of priking and of hunting for the... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1915 - 794 pages
...to their context, add- 22 ing short notes on points of special interest: A. Two PASSAGES. (a) He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen. That seith, that hunters been nat holy men ; Ne that a monk, whan he is cloisterlees, Is likned til a fish that is waterless. (fi)... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, And held after the newe world the space. He yaf e, nat holy men; Ne that a monk, whan he is cloisterlees, Is lykned til a fish that is waterlees; 180... | |
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