 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold. So that the wolfe 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.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 dangerous15 ne digne,16 But in his teching discrete and... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1847 - 318 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his folde, So that no 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,1 Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne,3 But in his teching discrete and benigne.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English drama - 1849 - 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,14 Ne of his spech£ dangerous ne digne,ls But in his teching discrete and... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1853 - 248 pages
...ran to Londone, unto seynte Poules, To seeken him a chaunterie for soules, Or with a brethurbede be withholde; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde,...schepperde and no mercenarie; And though he holy were, and yertuous, He was to senful man nought dispitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 494 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,18 Ne of his speche dangerous ne digne,14 But in his teching discrete and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 512 pages
...But dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not mUearie: 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, 1I But in his teehing discrete and... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 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.... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolfe 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.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 pages
...dwelt at home, and kepte wel his fold, So that the wolf ne made it not misearie : 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,14 But in his teching discrete and benigne,... | |
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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... 
