 | Joerg O. Fichte, Fritz Kemmler - English literature - 2005 - 412 pages
...with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And therto brood, as though it were a spade. 205 Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys, Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys; His nosethirles blake were and wyde. A swerd and... | |
 | Carolynn Van Dyke - Poetry - 2005 - 388 pages
...uses—sensory rather than typifying—but a shift from allusion and innuendo to prolonged observation: "Upon the cop right of his nose he hade / A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys" (554-55). A speaker here subjects himself to another individual. More explicitly, the... | |
 | B. N. Ball - 1966
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Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre, 550 Or breke it, at a renning, with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop... 
