 | David Lindsay - 1806 - 546 pages
...de. BELIVEK, nimble, free, active : Fr. deliore : O. Eng. deliver, Gower, Coles ; and so Chaucer : " Of his stature he was of even lengthe And wonderly deliver, and grete of strengthe." DELIvERLY, nimbly, freely, offhand ; so deliverly in 0. Eng. Chaucer. DELIvEKNESS, nimbleness, agility,... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 470 pages
...pilgrimage. THE SQUIER. With him ther was his sone a yonge SQUIBS, A lover, and a lusty bacheler, 80 With lockes crull as they were laide in presse. Of...strengthe. And he hadde be somtime in *chevachie, 85 In Flaundres, in Artois, and in Picardie, And borne him wel, as of so litel space, In hope to stonden... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 766 pages
...lusty bacheler, With lockes cnill as they were laide in presse. Of twenty yere of aze he was I g«sse. Of his stature he was of even lengthe. And wonderly deliver, and grcte of strengthe. And he hadde be somtime in chevachie, In Flauudres, in Artois, and in Picardie,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...pilgrimage. With him ther was his sone a yongd Squier, A lover and a lusty bacheler, With lockes crull4 as they were laide in presse. Of twenty yere of age...Of his stature he was of even lengthe, And wonderly deliver5, and grete of strengthe. And he hadde be somtime in chevachie6, In Flaundres, in Artois, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...pilgrimage. With him, ther was his sone, a yonge Squier, A lover, and a Justy baeheler ; With loekes erúll e let hob-goblins, names whose sense ehevaehie In Flaundres ; in Artois ; and in Pieardie ; And bome him wel, as of so litel spaee, In hope... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...Squier, A lover and a lusty bacheler, With lockes crull (a) as they were laide in presse. Of twenty ycre of age he was I gesse. Of his stature he was of even lengthe, And wonderly deliver, (6) and grete of strengthe. And he hadde be somtime in chevachie, (c) In Flaundres, in Artois, and... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...ycome fro his viage, And wente for to don his pilgrimage. WITH him ther was his soné a yonge SQCIER, A lover, and a lusty bacheler, With lockes crull as...of even lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and grete of srrengthe. And he hadde be somtime in chevachie, » In Flaundres, in Artois, and in Picardie, And borne... | |
 | William John Thoms - Coronations - 1838 - 506 pages
...authority as elegant as he is excellent, illustrates this completely in his description of the Squire : — With him ther was his sone, a yonge Squier, A lover,...gesse. Of his stature he was of even lengthe, And wonderfull deliver, and grete of strengthe. And he had be sometime in chevachie, In Flaunders, in Artois,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...Squier, A lover and a lusty bachelor, With lockes crullr as they were laide in presse. Of twenty yen? of age he was I gesse. Of his stature he was of even...and grete of strengthe. And he hadde be somtime in chcvachie", In Flaundres, in Artois, and in Picardie, And borne him wel, as of so litel space, In hope... | |
 | Barbara Hofland - 1843 - 974 pages
...morning, the wind being propitious, they sailed with a flowing sheet for Ostend. CHAPTER H. Of twentie yere of age he was, I gesse ; Of his stature he was of even lengthe, And wonder]y deliver and grate of strengthe ; And he had ben, some time, in chevachie In Flaunden. CHAUCKB.... | |
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With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe. 
