 | Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 352 pages
...nought dispitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discret and benigne. 520 To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensample, was his busynesse : But it were eny persone obstinat, What so he were of high or lowe estat, Him wolde he snybbe scharply... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 358 pages
...nought dispitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discret and benigne. 520 To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensample, was his busynesse: But it were eny persone obstinat, What so he were of high or lowe estat, Him wolde he snybbe scharply... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 362 pages
...nought dispitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discret and benigne. 52O To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensample, was his busynesse : But it were eny persone obstinat, What so he were of high or lowe estat, Him wolde he snybbe scharply... | |
 | William Spalding - English language - 1853 - 446 pages
...yren doo ? For, if a priest be foul, on whom we truste, No wondur is a lewid man10 to ruste. * * * * To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensample, was his busynesse : But" it were eny persone obstinat, What so12 he were, of high or lowe estat : Him wolde he snybbe18... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1853 - 248 pages
...nought dispitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching diseret and benigne. 520 To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensample, was his busynesse : But it were eny persone obstinat, What so he were of high or lowe estat, Him wolde he snybbe scharply... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - English poetry - 1854 - 294 pages
...man nought dispitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discret and benigne. To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensample, was his busynesse : But it were eny persone obstinat, What so he were of high or lowe estat, Him wolde he snybbe scharply... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1854 - 446 pages
...yren doo ? For, if a priest be foul, on whom we truste, No wondur is a lewid man10 to ruste. * * * * To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensample, was his busynesse : But" it were eny persone obstinat, What so12 he were, of high or lowe estat : Him wolde he snybbe13... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 346 pages
...man nought dispitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discret and benigne. To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, • By good ensample, was his busynesse: But it were eny persone obstinat, What so he were of high or lowe estat. Him wolde he snybbe scharply... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1871 - 168 pages
...man nought dispitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discret and benigne. To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensample, was his busynesse : 620 But it were eny persone obstinat, LINE 507. — To hyre, &c. He did not leave the duties of hie... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Adventure stories - 1872 - 1168 pages
...authority — one who never spared a rebuke to high or low if he thought it his duty to administer it, and who was ever ready to do a kind action or a friendly...him., when talking to Master Philpot, that " To drawe foli to heren by fairnease, By good ensample was lii:> busynesse ;" and this business he endeavoured... | |
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To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensample, was his busynesse: But it were eny persone obstinat, What so he were of high or lowe estat, Him wolde he snybbe scharply for the nones. 
