 | Johannes Scherr - English literature - 1882 - 334 pages
...Eglantine. Ful wel she sang the service devine, Entoned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spak ful fayre and fetisly After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For P'rench of Paris was to hire unknowe. At mete was she wel ytaughte withalle ; She lette no morsel from... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...endite. Line 95. 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. Line 122. A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also. Line 287. For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1885 - 1108 pages
...fayre and fetialy, Arter the scole of Stratford-atte-bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknown At mete was she wel ytaughte withalle ; She lette no morsel from hire lippcs lalle, Ne wette hire fingrcs in hire sauce depe. Wel coude she carie a morsel, and wel kepe,... | |
 | John Bascom - English literature - 1886 - 342 pages
...the prioress, simple, pleasing, and dainty, winning in manners, gentle and pitiful in disposition. " At mete was she wel ytaughte withalle ; She lette...lippes falle, Ne wette hire fingres in hire sauce depe. Wei coude she carie a morsel, and wel kepe, Thatte no drope ne fell upon hire brest." Pretty and agreeable... | |
 | James Franck Bright - Great Britain - 1889 - 442 pages
...the time that Chaucer wrote, he could laugh at English-French. His Prioress spoke CockneyFrench, " After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire mdmowe." And in recommending English writing, he says, — " Certes there ben some that speke thyr... | |
 | John Earle - English language - 1890 - 612 pages
...those who, like Chaucer's Prioresse, studied the old-fashioned airs of politeness : And French she spak ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, For French of Paris was to hir unknowe. When a foreign phrase has become very familiar in English discouree,... | |
 | English literature - 1891 - 542 pages
...society, so was careful to air her French, not acquired however, like Chaucer's own, abroad, but — After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. At table the lady's manners were of the best ; she was careful not to reach greedily after her meat, or... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1891 - 524 pages
...to air her French, not 26 27 acquired however, like Chaucer's own, abroad, but — After the scale of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. At table the lady's manners were of the best ; she was careful not to reach greedily after her meat, or... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1892 - 384 pages
...Madame Englentine. Ful wel she sange the service divine Entuned in hire nose ful semyly ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of...For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. At mete wel ytaughte was she withalle ; She lette no morsel from hire lippes falle, Ne wette hire fingres in... | |
 | Douglas Campbell - England - 1892 - 582 pages
...not been in general use until 1563.§ Chaucer draws a very pretty picture of the Prioress at table : "At mete was she wel ytaughte withalle; She lette...lippes falle, Ne wette hire fingres in hire sauce depc. Wei coude she carie a morsel, and wel kepe Tlmtte no ilropc ne fell upon hire brest." This is... | |
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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. 
