 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 364 pages
...she coude the olde dance. A good man ther was of religioun, That was a poure PERSONE of a toun : 4a> But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 pages
...arte she coude the olde dance. A good man ther was of religioun, That was a poure PEKSONE of a toun : But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...CHARACTER OF A GOOD PARSON. A GOOD man ther was of religioun, That was a poure1 Personea of a toun: But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Christes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...arte she coude the olde dance. A good man ther was of religioun, That was a poure PERSONE of a toun : t was both steepe and long, Which to a goodly citty Icil lemed man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde prêche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche.... | |
 | Great Britain. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - Authors, English - 1836 - 416 pages
...in the following lines : — A good man ther was of religioun, That was a poure PERSONS of a toun : But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens* devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 434 pages
...Can it ever be quoted too often? A good man ther was of religioun That was a poure Parsone of a toun, But riche he was of holy thought and werk ; He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; Hisparishensi devoutly wolde he teche; Benigne he was, and wonder2 diligent,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 424 pages
...ever be quoted too often ? A good man ther was of religidun That was a poure Parsone of a toun, „ But riche he was of holy thought and werk ; He was also a Icrned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parishens1 devoutly wolde he teche;... | |
 | J. H. Hippisley - English literature - 1837 - 370 pages
...and united in nature, as in the picture of our poetf. * See Le Bas' Life of Wickliffe, ch. x. •f- But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parishens devoutely wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent,... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 342 pages
...4. 289. 2:5. has been one of our standard verses of five accents since the days of Chaucer. But rich he was of holy thought and werk ; He | was also| : a lern|ed man | a clerk | That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. Chau. Prol. Some | to whom Heav'n| : in wit | has been | profuse | Want | as... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - English literature - 1841 - 688 pages
...ornamented version of Dryden : "A good man ther was of religioun That was a poure persone of a toun ; But riche he was of holy thought, and werk; He was also a lerned man, a clerk, Thai Cristos goepel trewely wolde prech; His parishens devoutly wolde he teche ; Benigne he was and... | |
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PERSOUN of a toun ; But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche. 
