 | 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... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 466 pages
...his habergeon, For he was late ycome fro his viage, And wente for to don his pilgrimage. THE SQUIER. With him ther was his sone a yonge SQUIER, A lover, and a lusty bacheler, 80 With lockes crull as they were laide in presse. Of twenty yere of age he was I gesse. Of his stature... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...besmotred 2 with his habergeon 3, For he was late ycome fro his vi^ge, And wente for to don his pilgrimage. With him ther was his sone a yonge Squier, A lover and a lusty bacheler, With locked crull4 as they were laide in presse. Of twenty yere of age he was I gesse. Of his stature he... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...besmatred with his habergeon, For he was late yeome fro his viage, And wente for to don his pilgrimage. harms, Ne let the ponk, nor other evil sprights, Ne let mis Justy baeheler ; With loekes erúll as they were laide in presse. Of twenty yere of age he was I gesse.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 320 pages
...spectators wept with very pity." Chaucer has left us a very beautiful portrait of the squire of his time : " With him ther was his sone a yonge SQUIER A lover and a lusty bacheler, With lockes crull [curled] as they were laide in prease, Of twenty yere of age he was I guesse ; Of his stature he was... | |
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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. 
