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... meaning which the etymology suggests - nothing of villa - survives any longer ; the peasant is quite dismissed , and the evil moral conditions of him who is called by this name , alone re- mains . " ( Trench , in English Past and ...
... meaning which the etymology suggests - nothing of villa - survives any longer ; the peasant is quite dismissed , and the evil moral conditions of him who is called by this name , alone re- mains . " ( Trench , in English Past and ...
Page 123
... has also a more extended meaning , and is applied to garments overlaid with gems or other ornaments . 66 ' Pourfiler d'or , to purfile , tinsill , or overcast with gold thread , & c . Pourfileure , purfling , a NOTES . 123.
... has also a more extended meaning , and is applied to garments overlaid with gems or other ornaments . 66 ' Pourfiler d'or , to purfile , tinsill , or overcast with gold thread , & c . Pourfileure , purfling , a NOTES . 123.
Page 125
... meaning of an agent ; and in youngster , gamester , punster , & c . , it implies contempt . 1. 242. bet . Lansd . MS . reads beter . lazer , a leper , from Lazarus , in the parable of Dives and Lazarus ; hence lazarette , an hospital ...
... meaning of an agent ; and in youngster , gamester , punster , & c . , it implies contempt . 1. 242. bet . Lansd . MS . reads beter . lazer , a leper , from Lazarus , in the parable of Dives and Lazarus ; hence lazarette , an hospital ...
Page 126
... meaning was to act in a niggardly manner ( as in the modern verb pinch ) , to deny oneself common neces- saries ; from which sprang a secondary meaning , to deny or refuse the courtesy or praise due to another , and hence to blame 126 ...
... meaning was to act in a niggardly manner ( as in the modern verb pinch ) , to deny oneself common neces- saries ; from which sprang a secondary meaning , to deny or refuse the courtesy or praise due to another , and hence to blame 126 ...
Page 145
... meaning to kempe heres . 1. 1284. for old = for eld , for age . 1. 1286. for blak is generally explained as for blackness ; it may mean very black . 1. 1294. colers of , having collars of . Some MSS . read colerd with . 1. 1309. bright ...
... meaning to kempe heres . 1. 1284. for old = for eld , for age . 1. 1286. for blak is generally explained as for blackness ; it may mean very black . 1. 1294. colers of , having collars of . Some MSS . read colerd with . 1. 1309. bright ...
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Page 6 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 4 - The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By-cause that it was old and som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men...
Page 6 - And everich hostiler and tappestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere; For un-to swich a worthy man as he Acorded nat, as by his facultee, To have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce.
Page 25 - And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by co'mposicioun, As ye han herd ; what...
Page 156 - The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God ; but the woman is the glory of the man.
Page 2 - An horn he bar, the bawdrik" was of grene; A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse.
Page xlviii - But natheles, whyl I have tyme and space, Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed...
Page 21 - For this ye knowen al so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Page 24 - And shortly for to tellen, as it was, Were it by aventure, or sort,*
Page 11 - ... me, That on his shyne a mormal hadde he! For blankmanger, that made he with the beste. A Shipman was ther, wonynge fer by weste; For aught I woot, he was of Dertemouthe.