 | Robert Lowth - 1763 - 226 pages
...now grown wholly obfolete : " And of his port as meke as is a maid, He never yet no villany tie faid In all his life unto no manner wight ; He was a very parfit gentil knight." Chaucer.' [i] " J^oferveflthou »»*/..?" Shakefpear, Hen. V. " Who do you fpeak... | |
 | Robert Lowth - 1774 - 168 pages
...grown wholly obfolete : » And of his port as meke as is a maij, Hi: nevir yet in villainy n: faid In all his life unto no manner wight : He was a very parfit gentil knight." Chaacer tt\cnnnct by no means allow him, that this argument muft prove, —... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...was. worthy, he wat wi-c ; And of his port as meke as is a maid, ]4'e nevir yet no viilanv he slid In all his life unto no manner wight : He was a very parfit gentil knigilt. But for to ttlan you of his array, His hors wer good ; buf he was nothing gay,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke - 1835 - 380 pages
...was worthy he was wise, And of his porte as meek as is a maid. He never yet no villainy 5 ne said 70 In all his life unto no manner wight : He was a very perfect gentle knight. But for to tellen you of his array ; His horse was good, but he ue was not gay. Of fustian he weared... | |
 | Sir Edward STRACHEY - 1843 - 188 pages
...from the time he first began to r'ukn out, Chaucer proceeds— And though that he was worthy he \\ as wise, And of his port as meek as is a maid. He never...manner wight. He was a very perfect gentle knight. And so of the knight's son and squire, we read, Courteous he was, lowly, and serviceable, which must... | |
 | John Saunders - 1845 - 292 pages
...the lord of Palathie,f Against another heathen in Turkey. And evermore he had a sovereign prise.£ And though that he was worthy, he was wise ; And of...unto no manner wight: He was a very perfect, gentle knit/ht. But for to tellen you of his array ; His horse was good, but he ne was not gay. Of fustian... | |
 | Friedrich Albert Maennel - 1846 - 218 pages
...though that he was worthy, he was wise; And of his port as meke as is a maid , He nevir yet no villany ne said In all his life unto no manner wight; He was a very parfit gentil knight. But for to tellin you of his array, His hors-wer good; but he was nothing gay,... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 380 pages
...with the lord of Palathie, Against another heathen in Turkey. And ever more he had a sovereign prise, And though that he was worthy, he was wise ', And...manner wight : He was a very perfect, gentle knight" THE PRESENT DAY. is physically impossible, to say nothing of the absurdity. The mound undoubtedly contains... | |
 | William Gideon Michael Jones Barker - 1854 - 366 pages
...more he had a sovereign prise, And though that he was worthy, he was wise ; And of his purt as meelc as is a maid, He never yet no villainy ne said In...unto no manner wight : He was a very perfect, gentle Tsniyht." South of the castle is " William Hill," Ghilpatric the Dane's fort ; round which tradition... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1897 - 876 pages
...which exactly corresponds with that of the actual man : — And evermore he had a sovereign prise, And though that he was worthy he was wise, And of...manner wight : He was a very perfect gentle knight. PS — The mention of the Privy Council in connection with Charles Buller's name reminds me of the... | |
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And though that he was worthy, he was wise ; And of his port as meek as is a maid. He never yet no villainy§ ne said In all his life unto no manner wight: He was a very perfect, gentle knit/ht. 
