| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 794 pages
...n'ot how men him calle» A Cle rl ther was of Oxenford aUb, That unto logike hadde long ygo. As Icne was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat I undertake. But loked holwe, and therto foberly . Ful thredbare was his overeft courtepy, For he hadde geten him yet no benefice, Ne was nought... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 766 pages
...sayn, I n'ot how men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenforde also, That unto lug ike hadde long ygo. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not...loked holwe, and therto soberly. Ful thredbare was bis ovcrest courtepy, Fur he harldc geten him yet no benelicK, Ne was nought worldly to have an office.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 432 pages
...sayn, 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 hoi we2, and therto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy3, For he hadde geten him yet no... | |
| Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...end of the fourteenth century. " A clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde long ygo. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But looked holwe* and thereto soberlye. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepie. For he had geten him yet... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...n'ot how men him calle. A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ygo. As lent: was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But loked holwe2, and therto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy9, For he hadde geten him yet no... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 468 pages
...sayn, I n'ot how men him ealle. 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 Htd loked holwe, and therto soberly. Pul thredbare was his overest eourtepy, For he hadde geten him... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 388 pages
...sayn, 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...nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever ban at his beddes bed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...no't how men him calle. A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also, That onto logike hadde long y go. • fl han half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long, and this new world, shall know. looked holwe, and therto soberly. Ful thredbare was his ovrrest courtppy. For he hadde geten him yet... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...sayn, I no't how men him ealle. A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also, That unto logike hadde long ygo. WIW'SoVpVqVrVsV V V U U U<S 0 V )bT,NYJ U FlQ7V % 6 S looked holwe, and therto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest eourtepy, For he hadde geten him yet... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...limitour was cleped Huberd. ***** 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, (e) and therto soberly. Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy, (/) For he hadde geten him yet no benefice,... | |
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