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" 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 220
edited by - 1819
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1862 - 592 pages
...pity ; Tell, virtue least preferreth : 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 Deserve no less than stabbing, Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill. WINIFRED A. About...
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Early English Poems, Chaucer to Pope: Chiefly Unabridged; Illustrated with ...

English poetry - 1863 - 478 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 thou hast, as 1 Commanded thee, done blabbing : Although to give the lie I MUST NOT GRIEVE....
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English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and ...

Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 pages
...unkindness ; tell Justice of delay : And if they will reply, then give them all 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 thou hast, as I commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie deserves no less...
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Favourite English Poems: Chaucer to Pope, 1350-1700

English poetry - 1863 - 362 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 thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing : Although to give the lie Deserves no less than...
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Half-hours with our sacred poets [an anthology] ed. by A.H. Grant

Half hours - 1863 - 408 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 thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing : Although to give the lie Deserves no less than...
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Early English poems, Chaucer to Pope

English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...schools 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 Deserves no less than...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...reply, Give Arts and Schools the lie. Tell Faith it's fled the city ; Tell how the Country errcth ; Tell Manhood, 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 Deserves no loss...
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Gathered riches from the older poets, A.D. 1340-1699 [ed. by W.K.].

W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 260 pages
...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,...preferreth. And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. When thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing ; Although to give the lie, Deserves no less than...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...stand too much on seeming. If Arts and Schools reply, (jive Arts and Schools the lie. Tell Faith it's fled the city; Tell how the Country erreth; Tell Manhood,...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...
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Gathered riches from the older poets, A.D. 1340-1699 [ed. by W.K.].

W. K. - English poetry - 1865 - 238 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,...preferreth. And if they do reply, Spare not to give the lie. When thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing ; Although to give the lie, Deserves no less than...
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