 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...Poules, To seekcn him a chaunterie for soules, Or with a brothurhede be withholde ; But dwolte at lioom, and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it not mysoarye. He was a schepperde and no mercenarie ; And though he holy were, and vortuous. He was to... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...noble ensample to his shepe he yaf, That first he wrought and afterwards he taught. He was a shepherd and no mercenarie, And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful men not dispitious, Ne of his speche dangerous ne digue, But in his learning discrete and benigne.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...to Londone, unto seynte Poules, To seeken him a chaunterie for soules1, Or with a bretherhede to ben withholde ; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his...So that the wolf ne made it not myscarye ; He was a schepherd and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful man nought despitous,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1880 - 108 pages
...Londone, unto seynte Ponies, To seeken him a chaunterie for soules, 510 Or with a bretherhede to ben withholde ; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his...So that the wolf ne made it not myscarye ; He was a sehepherde and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, 515 He was to sinful man nought... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...to Londone, unto seynte Poules, To seeken him a chaunterie for soules1, Or with a bretherhede to ben withholde ; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his...So that the wolf ne made it not myscarye ; He was a schepherd and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful man nought despitous,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...to Londone, unto seynte Poules, To seeken him a chaunterie for soules1, Or with a bretherhede to ben withholde ; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his...So that the wolf ne made it not myscarye ; He was a schepherd and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful man nought despitous,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1880 - 288 pages
...a^chaunterie^ for soules, , 5 10 ^ •£. Or with a bretherhede to ben withholde ; /fc«~i«~~*i** But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it not myscarye ; He was a schepherde and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, 515 He was to sinful man nought... | |
 | Anglican Communion - 1880 - 488 pages
...his scheep he gaf. He did not seek preferment, like too many of the clergy of that day — But dwelt at hoom and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it not myscarye. He was a schepherde and no mercenarie, And though he holy were and vcrtuous, He was to sinful man nought despitous,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1881 - 1422 pages
...realising Chaucer's ideal — one who would not lightly run hither and thither seeking preferment, But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it not myscarye ; He was a schepherde and no mercenarie. He had entered the Church, then, because of his love of the work to be... | |
 | 1881 - 832 pages
...realising Chaucer's ideal — one who would not lightly run hither and thither seeking preferment, But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it not myscarye ; He was a schepherde and no mercenarie. He had entered the Church, then, because of his love of the work to be... | |
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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... 
