 This maketh me at home to hunt and hawk. And in foul weather at my book to sit, In frost and snow then with my bow to stalk: No man doth mark whereso I ride or go, In lusty leas at liberty I walk, And of these news I feel nor weal nor woe, Save that a...  The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt - Page xlviby Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1866 - 243 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1858 - 276 pages
...mayst see, A chip of chance more than a pound of wit : This maketh me at home to hunt and hawk; so And in foul weather at my book to sit; In frost and...I walk; And of these news I feel nor weal nor woe ; Save that a clog doth hang yet at my heel. No force for that,2 for it is order'd so, That I may leap... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1858 - 282 pages
...mayst see, A chip of chance more than a pound of wit : This maketh me at home to hunt and hawk; so And in foul weather at my book to sit ; In frost and...I walk; And of these news I feel nor weal nor woe ; Save that a clog doth hang yet at my heel. No force for that,2 for it is order'd so, That I may leap... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...more than a pounde of wit : This maketh me at home to hunt and hawke. And in fowle wether at my booke to sit ; In frost and snow then with my bow to stalk ; No man doth marke whereto I ride or go : In lusty leas at liberty I walke : And of these nerves I fele no weale... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Richard J. King - East Sussex (England) - 1863 - 506 pages
...gives us a pleasant picture of his life at Allington: — "' This maketh me at home to hunt and hawk ; And in foul weather at my book to sit; In frost and...mark whereso I ride or go, in lusty leas at liberty 1 walk ; And of these news I feel nor weal nor woe. I am not now in France to judge the wine ; But... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1864 - 344 pages
...thou mayst see, A chip of chance more than a pound of wit: This maketh me at home to hunt and hawk ; And in foul weather at my book to sit ; In frost and...then with my bow to stalk ; No man doth mark whereso 1 ride or go : In lusty leas at liberty I walk ; And of these news I feel nor weal nor woe : " u Nor... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1867 - 702 pages
...In one of his poems he thus refers to his life here — ' Tliis maketh me at home to bunt unil hawk, And In foul weather at my book to sit. In frost and snow then with my bow to stalk, No man doth mark \vhereso 1 bido or go, la lusty leas In liberty I walk, And of these news 1 feel nor weal nor woe.'... | |
 | 1867 - 646 pages
...here — • This maketh mo at home to hunt and hawk. And iil foul weather at my book to sit. In froet and snow then with my bow to stalk, No man doth mark whereto I bide or go. In lusty leas in liberty I walk, And of these news l ftfl nor weal nor woe.'... | |
 | Richard John King - 1868 - 536 pages
...gives us a pleasant picture of his life at Allington : — " This maketh me at home to hunt and hawk And in foul weather at my book to sit; In frost and snow thea with my bow to stalk; | No man doth mark whereso I ride or go, In lusty leas at liberty 1 walk... | |
 | Kent (England) - 1874 - 598 pages
...his manner of daily living to his friend John Poins :— " This maketh me at home to hunt and hawk; And in foul weather at my book to sit; In frost and...walk ; And of these news I feel nor weal nor woe. * * So I am here in Kent and Christendom Among the muses, where I read and rhyme; Where if thou list,... | |
 | John Hanmer Hanmer (1st baron) - Hanmer (Ont.) - 1876 - 318 pages
...Thomas Wyatt, which has always pleased me very much :— . " This maketh me at home to hunt and hawk, And in foul weather at my book to sit, In frost and snow then with my bow to stalk." &C-, &C., &C., &C. Sir T. Wyatt to John Poins. Our Sir Thomas attended to his gardens and fish-ponds... | |
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