 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 468 pages
...at home, and kepte wel his fold, __ So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. 515 He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...dwelt at home, and keptd wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 388 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...But dwelt at home and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie; He was a shepherd / sinful men, not dispitous ; Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne ; But, in his teching, discrete and... | |
 | Poems - 1827 - 934 pages
...gospel. 1 may transcribe a few wellJtnown lines from Chaucer, as not inapplicable :— He was a shepherd and no mercenarie — And though he holy were and vertuous, He was to sinful man not dispitous ; Me of his speche dangerous ne digne, And in his teching discrete and bcnigne... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, su So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 364 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, 514 So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and benigne.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarrie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous,3 Ne of his speche dangerous* ne di gnty : But in his teching discrete and... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie. He was a shepherd, and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne, But in his teching discrete and bénigne.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 446 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not miscarie : He was a shepherd and no mercenarie ; And though he holy were and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitous,14 Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne,1* But in his teching discrete and... | |
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He sette nat his benefice to hyre, And leet his sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, un-to seynt Poules, To seken him a chaunterie for soules... 
