 And if they will reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming : If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's...  Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628 - Page 220edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...stand too much on seeming : If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city; Tell how the country erreth ; Tell,...: And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So when thon hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserves no less than... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...stand too much on seeming : If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell feith it's fled the city; Tell how the country erreth ; Tell,...preferreth : And if they do reply, Spare not to give the He. So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserve no less... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...all the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city ; Tell how the country erreth ; Tell, manhood shakes oft' pity ; Tell, virtue least preferreth : And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserve no less than... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...faith, it's fled the citie; Tell how the country erreth; Tell, manhood shakes off pitie, Tell, vertue least preferreth; And, if they do reply, Spare not to give the lye. So, when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, Although to give the lye Deserves no less... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...stand too much on seeming ; If Arts and Schools reply, Give Arts and Schools the lie. Tell Faith it's fled the city, Tell how the Country erreth, Tell,...Spare not to give the lie. And when thou hast, as I Command thee, done thy blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing ; Yet stab... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...the lie. Toll faith it's fled the city, Tell how the country erreth, How manhood shakes off pity, And virtue least preferreth ; And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing : Although to give the lie Deserves no less than... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 346 pages
...stand too much on seeming. If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city; Tell how the country erreth; Tell manhood,...; And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So, when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing ; Although to give the lie, Deserves no less... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...Tell faith it's fled the city; Tell how the country erreth; Tell manhood, shakes of pity; Tell cirtue, least preferreth, And if they do reply Spare not to give the lie. Sir. W. Raleigh. — Walls of brass resist not A noble undertaking — nor can vice Raise any bulwark... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...shakes off pity ; Tell, virtue least preferreth : And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing, Although to give the lie Deserve no less than stabbing, Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. WINIFREDA. About... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...Tell faith , it's fled the citie ; Tell how the country erreth ; Tell , manhood shakes off pitie ; Tell , virtue least preferreth ; And , if they do reply, Spare not to give the lye. So , when thou hast , as I Commanded thee , done blabbing, Saltt't lHaltia.li. 35em fflifc fag',... | |
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