 In our forefathers tyme, whan Papistrie, as a standyng poole, couered and ouerflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our long, sauyng certaine bookes of Cheualrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in Monasteries,...  The Works of Walter Scott, Esq: Sir Tristram - Page 341by Walter Scott - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Warton - 1840 - 548 pages
...and ouerflowed 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 monkes or wanton chanons: as one for example, MORTE ARTHUR, the whole pleasure... | |
 | John Skelton - 1843 - 498 pages
...and ouerflowed all England, fewe bookes were red in our tonge, sauing certayne bookes of Chiualrie, 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 Arthur : the whole pleasure... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...standing poole covered and overflowed all England, few books were red in our toong, saving certayne books of chivalrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say were made in monasteries by idle monks and wanton chanons. . . . This is good stuff for wise men to laughe at or... | |
 | Roger Ascham - 1877 - 118 pages
...and overflowed all England, fewe bookes were read in our tong, savyag 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... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 606 pages
...and 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... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1883 - 650 pages
...and 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... | |
 | John Skelton - 1887 - 418 pages
...standing poole covered and overflowed all England, few books were red in our toong, saving certayne books of chivalrie, as they sayd, for pastime and pleasure, which, as some say, were made in monasteries by idle monks and wanton chanons. . . . This is good stuff for wise men to laughe at, or... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1889 - 548 pages
...couered and 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... | |
 | 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 - 1890 - 590 pages
...and overflowed 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... | |
 | 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 - 1890 - 582 pages
...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 by idle Monkes or wanton Chanons ; as one for example, " Morte Arthure " ; the whole pleasure... | |
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