 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 622 pages
...I n'ot how men him calle. (A. Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also} That unto logike hadde long ygo. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But loked holwe, and therto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy/ For he hadde geten him... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...differences. ' Half cloak. 242 A Clerk there was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ygo. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But loked holwe,1 and thereto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy,2 For he hadde geten... | |
 | Royal University of Ireland - Universities and colleges - 1859 - 490 pages
...explanation of the words in italics : A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ygo. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But loked holwe, and thereto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest cowrtepy, For he hadde geten... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...was wel better than his rent. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logike hadde long ygo. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not rightful, 1 undertake, But loked holwe, and therto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...n'ot how men him calle. . . A CLERK ther was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ygo. 1 As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake; But loked holwe, and therto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy, 1 For he hadde geten him... | |
 | William Everett - 1865 - 418 pages
...Chaucer's sweet verse : — " A clerk ther was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ago ; As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But looked holwe, and thereto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy, For he had geten him... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1866 - 388 pages
...I not what men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe tyme i-go. Al-so lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But lokede holwe, and therto soburly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy, 290 For he hadde nought... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - History - 1866 - 278 pages
...of the House of Merton : "A clerk there was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ygo. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat I undertake ; But loked holwe and thereto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy, For he hadde geten him... | |
 | American essays - 1866 - 976 pages
...and student's bower. The Oxford scholar long ago, as described by Chaucer, was adust and thin. " As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake." The ancient anchorets of the East, the children of St. Anthony, were a longlived sect, rivalling the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1867 - 282 pages
...say, I not what men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe i-go. Al-so lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; 290 But lokede holwe, and therto soburly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy, For he hadde nought... | |
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As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But loked holwe, and therto soberly. 
