 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1907 - 338 pages
...preest take keep, A [spotted] shepherde and a clene sheep. Wei oghte a preest ensample for to yive3, 505 By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live....ran to London, un-to se'ynt9 Poules, To seken him a chaunterie 10 for soules, 510 Or with a bretherhed to been withholde; But dwelte11 at hoom, and kepte1*... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1907 - 348 pages
...preest take keep, A [spotted] shepherde and a clene sheep. Wei oghte a preest ensample for to yive6, 505 By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live....sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, un-to se'ynl6 Poules, To seken him a chaunterie10 for soules, 510 Or with a bretherhed to been withholde;... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - English literature - 1907 - 320 pages
...No wonder is a lewed 4 man to ruste ; Wei oghte a preest ensample for to yive, 290 By his elennesse, how that his sheep shold live. He sette nat his benefice...sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, un-to sSynt Poults, To seken him a chaunterie e for soules, Or with a bretherhed to been withholde • ;... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow - English literature - 1907 - 392 pages
...whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed * man to ruste ; Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, 2fl0 By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live. He...benefice to hyre, And leet his sheep encombred in the myve, And ran to London, un-to sSynt Poules, To seken him a chaunterie 6 for soules, Or with a bretherhed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1907 - 72 pages
...sheep. Wei oghte a preest ensample for to yive, By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live. 30 He sette nat his benefice to hyre, And leet his sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, unto seynte Poules, To seken hym a chaunterie for soules, Or with a bretherhed to been withholde ; 35 But... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 616 pages
...sheep. Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yeve 505 By his clennesse, how that his sheepe sholde lyve. He sette nat his benefice to hyre And leet his sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London unto Sum Poulcs To seken hym a chaunterie for soules, 510 Or with a bretherhed to been withholde ; " But... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1907 - 322 pages
...sheep. 505 Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold lyve. He sette nat his benefice to hyre, And leet his sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, unto seynte Poules, 5io To seken him a chaunterie for soules, Or with a bretherhed to been withholde ; But... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1907 - 352 pages
...sheep. 505 Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold lyve. He sette nat his benefice to hyre, And leet his sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, unto seynte Poules, sio To seken him a chaunterie for soules, Or with a bretherhed to been withholde ; But... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...adversitee ful pacient ; And swioh he was y-preved ofte sythes. Ful looth were him to cursen for his tythes. 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, Or with a bretherhed to been withholde ; But dwelte... | |
 | Yorkshire (England) - 1909 - 676 pages
...to have followed the manners of the times rather than the example of Chaucer's "poure persoun," who Sette nat his benefice to hyre, And leet his sheep encombred in the myrc. And ran to London, unto Scynt Poules, To scken him a chaunterie for soules. In the following... | |
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For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste ; And shame it is, if a preest take keep, A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. 
