| 1870 - 624 pages
...the description of the Clerk of Oxenford are ip Mr, Morris's text as follows : — ' Of studie took he most cure and heede. Not oo word spak he more than was neede ; All that he spak it was of heye prudence And schort and quyk, and full of great sentence. Souninge... | |
| Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 360 pages
...might of his frendes heute, On bookes and his lernyng he it spente, 302 And busily gan for the soules pray Of hem that gaf him wherwith to scolay. Of studie...cure and heede. Not oo word spak he more than was needc ; Al that he spak it was of heye prudence, And schort and quyk, and ful of gret sentence. Sownynge... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1853 - 248 pages
...might of his frendes hente, On bookes and his lernyng he it spente, 302 And busily gan for the soules pray Of hem that gaf him wherwith to scolay. Of studie tooke he most cure and hcede. Not oo word spak he more than was neede; Al that he spak it was of heye prudence, And schort... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - English poetry - 1854 - 294 pages
...he might of his frendes hente, On bookes and his lernyng he it spente, And busily gan for the soules pray Of hem that gaf him wherwith to scolay.* Of studie...prudence, And schort and quyk, and ful of gret sentence. 1 ». e., guarded, that he might not lose his ships by pirates or privateers. 2 He perfectly understood... | |
| Henry Morley - 1867 - 488 pages
...the schools. " Of studie tooke he most care and heede. Not oo word spak he more than was neede ; All that he spak it was of heye prudence, And schort, and quyk, and ful of gret sentence. Rownynpe in moral mancre was his speche, And gladly wolde he Icrne, and gladly tcche." of dainty horses... | |
| William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1871 - 582 pages
...And besily gan for the soules pray Of hem that gaf him wherwith to scolay. Of stndio tooke he moste cure and heede. Not oo word spak he more than was...neede ; Al that he spak it was of heye prudence. And sehort, and quyk, and ful of gret sentence. Sowuynge in moral manere was his speehe, And gladly wolde... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1871 - 134 pages
...might of his frendes hente, On bookes and his lernyng he it spente, 300 And busily gan for the soules pray Of hem that gaf him wherwith to scolay. Of studie tooke he most cure and most heede. Not oo word spak he mor£ than was neede; And that was seyd in form and reverence, 305... | |
| William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Characters and characteristics - 1871 - 592 pages
...he might of his frendes hente, On bookes and his lernyng he it spente, And besily gan for the soules pray Of hem that gaf him wherwith to scolay. Of studie tooke he moste cure and heede. Not oo word spak he more than was neede ; Al that he spak it was of heye prudence.... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...spente, 300 And busily gan for the soules pray Of hem that yaf him whcrwith to scolay. Of studie took he most cure and heede. Not oo word spak he more than was neede ; And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short, and quyk, and ful of heigh sentence. Sownynge8... | |
| English authors - 1880 - 178 pages
...And busily gan for the soules praye Of hem that yaf him wherwith to scolaye. Of studie took he moste cure and heede. Not oo word spak he more than was...neede ; Al that he spak it was of heye prudence, And short and quyk, and ful of gret sentence. Sownynge in moral manere was his speche, And gladly wolde... | |
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