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" In our forefathers tyme, whan Papistrie, as a standyng poole, covered and overflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, savyng certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries... "
A History of the Church and Priory of Swine in Holderness ... - Page 139
by Thomas Thompson - 1824 - 268 pages
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The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales, Volume 3

Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1883 - 648 pages
...overflowed all England, few bookes were red .in our toong sauyng certayne Bookes of Chiualrie, as they sayd for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monks or wanton chanons : as one for example More Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth in two specyall...
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The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales, Volume 3

Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1883 - 606 pages
...overflowed all England, few bookes were red in our toong sauyng certayne Bookes of (Jhiualrie, as they sayd for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monks or wanton chanons : as one for example More Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth in two specyall...
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An Outline Sketch of English Literature

Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1886 - 304 pages
...Ascham, a Greek lecturer in Cambridge, and the tutor of the Princess Elizabeth and of Lady Jane Grey. "In our forefathers' time, when Papistry as a standing...idle monks or wanton canons : as one, for example, Morte Arthure, the whole pleasure of which book standeth in two special points, in open manslaughter...
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Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama

Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1887 - 428 pages
...fewe bookes were read in our tongue, savying certaine bookes of chivalrie, as they said for passtime and pleasure ; which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monks, or wanton chanons. As, for example, La Morte d1 Arthur, the whole pleasure of which booke standeth in two speciall...
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Englische Studien, Volume 13

Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1889 - 548 pages
...onerflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our long, sauyng certaine buokes Cheualrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure which, as some say, were made in Monasteries, by idle Monkes, or wanton Chanons: as one for example , Morte Arthure : the whole pleasure of which booke standeth...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: English Literature in Eight Chapters

Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1890 - 320 pages
...Ascham, a Greek lecturer in Cambridge, and the tutor of the Princess Elizabeth and of Lady Jane Grey : " In our forefathers' time, when papistry as a standing...idle monks or wanton canons: as one, for example, Morte Arthure, the whole pleasure of which book s'andeth in two special points, in open manslaughter...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 171

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1890 - 590 pages
...all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, savyng certaino bookes of chevalrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries by idle Monkes or wanton Chanons ; as one for example, " Morte Arthure" ; the whole pleasure of which booke...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 171

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1890 - 582 pages
...all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, savyng certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries by idle Monkes or wanton Chanons ; as one for example, " Morte Arthure " ; the whole pleasure of which booke...
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Poetical Works: With a Biographical & Critical Memoir

Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 pages
...and overflowed all England, fewe books were read in our tongue, savying certaine bookes of chevalrie, as they said, for pastime and pleasure ; which, as some say, were made in the monasteries, by idle monks or w;mt<m chanons. As one, for example, La Morte d* Arthure ; the whole...
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from ...

Henry Augustin Beers - English Literature - 1894 - 342 pages
...Ascham, a Greek lecturer in Cambridge, and the tutor of the Princess Elizabeth and of Lady Jane Grey: " In our forefathers' time, when papistry as a standing...idle monks or wanton canons: as one, for example, Jtforte Arthure, the whole pleasure of which book standeth in two special points, in open manslaughter...
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