 | Great Britain. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - Authors, English - 1836 - 416 pages
...madame Eglentine. Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of...atte Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe; a passage from which we learn, that though the French language was then in as much vogue as now, it... | |
 | Charles Richardson - English language - 1836 - 136 pages
...fretted with gold wyr. fieri Plouhman's Vision, v. 900. And Frenche she spake lull fayre and/etúíy. After the Scole of Stratford atte Bowe— For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. Chaucer. J-rul. to Canterbury Tola, T. 124. FECCHE. See FETCH. FEDERAL. Who helith the gilte, secheth... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...Madam Eglentine; Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly,** After the scole...atte Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. After celebrating her refined manners at table — an * Nut head. + Knew. t Armour for the arms. 8... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...Madam Eglentine; Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly,** After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenehe of Paris was to hire unknowe. After celebrating her refined manners at table — an * Nut head.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 568 pages
...Chaucer says, " Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of...atte bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe." Better or worse, all, who wished for advancement in church or state, were forced to learn French. It... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1840 - 600 pages
...was ful simple and coy ; Hire gretest othe n'as but by seint Eloyb, &c. And Frencke she spake full fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte...Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. At metec was she wel ytaughte withalle ; She lette no morsel from hire lippes falle, Ne wette hire fingres... | |
 | English essays - 1841 - 736 pages
...Chaucer are more frequently quoted than his description of Madame Eglentine, the Prioress : " And Frenche she spake,' ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole...atte Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe." On which Tyrwhitt has observed, that Chaucer "thought but meanly of the English-French spoken in his... | |
 | William Gresley - Reformation - 1843 - 342 pages
...thread, which she placed in the hands of Dame Margaret's servant. CHAPTER IX. At mete was she well ytaughte withalle; She lette no morsel from hire lippes falle, Ne wette hire fingres in hire sauce depe; Wei coude she carie a morsel, and wtl kepe, Thatte no drope nc fell upon hire hreat; In curtesie was... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, 2 After the schole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to...she wel ytaughte withalle; She lette no morsel from her lippes fall, Ne wette hire fingres in hire sauce depe. Wel coude she carie a morsel, and wel kepe,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake fui fayro and fetisly"', After the scole of Stratford attc Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. At...she wel ytaughte withalle ; She lette no morsel from her lippes fall, Ne wette hire fingres in hire sauce depe. Wel coude she carie a morsel, and wel kepe,... | |
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Eglentine. Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. 
