 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1868 - 784 pages
...his speche / dauugerous ne digno But in his techyng* discreet and benygne To drawen folk to heuene by fairnesse By good ensample / this was his bisynesse...any persone obstinat* What so he were / of heigh or lough estât Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the nonys A bettre preestf I trowo / fat nowher noon... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Bernhard ten Brink - 1871 - 48 pages
...digne, But in his teechyng discret ant benygne. To drawen folk to heven by fairnesse, By good ensatnple, was his bisynesse. 520 But it were any persone obstinat, What so he were, of heigh or lough estat, Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the noonys. A bettre preest I trow that nowher noon ys.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1872 - 384 pages
...the wolf ne made it not myscarye; He was a schepherde and no mercenarie. \He was to sinful man nought despitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discret and benigne. To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse By good ensample, this was his busynesse:... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1880 - 766 pages
...his speche daungerous ne digne,1 But in his techyng discreet and benygne, To drawen folk to hevene by fairnesse, By good ensample, this was his bisynesse....any persone obstinat, What so he were, of heigh or lough estat, Hym wolde he snybben 2 sharply for the nonys. A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1879 - 754 pages
...his speche daungerous ne digne,1 But in his techyng discreet and benygne, To drawen folk to hevene by fairnesse, By good ensample, this was his bisynesse....any persone obstinat, What so he were, of heigh or lough estat, Hym wolde he snybben * sharply for the nonys. A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1879 - 712 pages
...discreet and benygne To drawcn folk to heuene by fairnesso By good ensample / this was his bisynesso But it were any persone obstinat* What so he were / of heigh or lough estât Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the nonys A bottre prcesf I trowo / Jwit nowher noon... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...discreet and benynge, To drawen folk to hevene by fairnesse, By good ensample, this was his bisynesse. 395 But it were any persone obstinat, What so he were, of heigh or lough estat, Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the nonys. A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon ys;... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1880 - 108 pages
...sehepherde and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, 515 He was to sinful man nought despitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discret and benigue. To drawe folk to heven by fairenesse By good ensample, this was his busynesse... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...was a schepherd and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful man nought despitous, Ne of his speche daungerous * ne digne, But in his teching discret and benigne. To drawe folk to heven by fairnesse By good ensample, this was his busynesse :... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Clarendon Press series - 1889 - 334 pages
...shepherde and no1 mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, 515 He was to sinful man nat2 despitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But...persone obstinat, What so he were, of heigh or lowe 3 estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones 4. A bettre preest, I trowe that nowher non is.... | |
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He was a shepherde and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful man nat despitous,** Ne of his speche daungerous"* ne digne,*" But in his teching discreet and benigne. 
