 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1860 - 384 pages
...was worthy he was wise, And of his port as meek as is a maid. He never yet no villainy9 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 ne was not gay. Of fustian he weared... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 350 pages
...though that he was worthy, lie was wise, And of his port as meek as is a maid. He never yet no villany ne said, In all his life, unto no manner wight : He was a very perfect gentle knight. Till.; SQUIRE. With him there was his son, a younge squier, A lover and a lusty bacheler, With lockes... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1864 - 340 pages
...though that he was worthy, he was wise, And of his port as meek as is a maid. He never yet no villany ne said, In all his life, unto no manner wight : He was a very perfect gentle knight. THE SQUIRE. With him there was his son, a younge squi&r, A lover and a lusty bacheler, With lockes... | |
 | Thomas Pelham Dale - 1869 - 360 pages
...though that he was worthy, he was wise, And of his port as meek as is a maid ; He never yet no villany ne said In all his life, unto no manner wight; He was a very perfect, gentle knighl" — might very well have served for Tcsselin. His wife was Alyth, or Elizabeth. According to... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - 664 pages
...with the lord of Palatie,8 Against another heathen in Turkie : And evermore he had a sovereign price.8 And though that he was worthy he was wise, And of...manner wight. He was a very perfect gentle knight. But for to telle you of his array, His horse was good, but yet he was not gay. Of fustian he weared... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - 662 pages
...was worthy he was wise, And of his porte as meek as is a maid. He never yet no villainy3 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 ne was not gay. Of fustidn he weardd... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke - 1870 - 676 pages
...was worthy he was wise, . And of his porte as meek as is a maid. He never yet no villainy8 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 ne was not gay. Of fustian he weare"da... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...a feudal serf. » Double negatives form a common idiom in old English. THE KNIGHT AND THE SQUIRE. 5 In all his life, unto no manner wight. He was a very perfect gentle1 Knight. * *»* * » With him there was his son, a youngd Squire, A lover and a lusty bacholer,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - 600 pages
...though that he was worthy, he was wise, And in his port as meek as is a maid. He never yet no vilanie ne said, In all his life, unto no manner wight. He was a very parfitt gentle knight.' ART. ART. V. — 1. A Perambulation of the Ancient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor... | |
 | 1873 - 842 pages
...though that he was worthy, he was wise, And in his port as meek as is a maid. He never yet no vilanic ne said, In all his life, unto no manner wight. He was a very parfitt gentle knight. We have left ourselves but little space for an account of the works which were... | |
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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. 
