 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1854 - 650 pages
...psaltery was probably a stringed instrument, and perhaps the same as the " rote" spoken of elsewhere. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, cp\-'-? But all that he might of his frendes hente,1 On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1855 - 636 pages
...psaltery was probably a stringed iattnunent, and perhaps the eame ai the "rote" ipoken of elsewhere. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in colre, But all that he might of his frendes hente,1 On bokes and on lerning he it speute, And beaily... | |
 | Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique - 1858 - 696 pages
...mot, comme on le fait maintenant toujours. But, sire, ne be not wroth, al be it so. (Cuit-CEI.) But al be that he was a philosophre , Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. (/6.) ALDERBEST, ALTIIERBEST, v. angl., allem, allerberst, flam, alderbest, angl. best of all, franc,... | |
 | 1863 - 478 pages
...clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for... | |
 | 1863 - 362 pages
...clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for... | |
 | English poems - 1863 - 364 pages
...clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1863 - 368 pages
...A CHRONICLE ABOUT FROISSART. " See, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so ! " JULIUS " But all bo that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in oofre, But all that he might of his frendes, On bokes and on lorning he it spente." CHAUCKR. " LOVE-IN-IDLENESS"... | |
 | William Everett - 1865 - 418 pages
...bokes, clothed in black or red Of Aristote and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on learning he it spente, And busily gan for... | |
 | 1885 - 440 pages
...Moncaster's Scholars? Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Then rohes riche, or fithele, or gay sawtrie, But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But al that he mighte of his frendes hente, On bookes and on lernyng he it spente, And busily gan for... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1867 - 1072 pages
...psaltery was probably a stringed instrument, and perhaps the same as the "rote" spoken of elsewhere. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might ot his frendes hente,1 On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for... | |
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