Sir Ferumbras, Numéros 34 à 35Sidney John Hervon Herrtage Early English Text Society, 1879 - 255 pages |
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Page 268 - in full payment" for "the Book of Carnowlle Wollsey." This play was, in all probability, anterior to Shakespeare's Henry the Eighth, which, at least in the form in which it has come down to us, could not have been produced before James I.
Page 214 - He was, to weete, a stout and sturdy thiefe, Wont to robbe Churches of their ornaments, And poore mens boxes of their due reliefe, Which given was to them for good intents: The holy Saints of their rich vestiments He did disrobe, when all...
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Page xvii - Columpton in the diocese of Exeter, then vacant by the death of Peter Moleyns ; which bull, being addressed to the Abbots of Schirbourne and Cerne, and to John de Silvis dean of S. Agricola at Avignon, was executed (by the last named) in the present letter addressed to the Bishop of Exeter. The foot, containing the date, is cut off; but the bull is dated at Villa-nova, 3 id.
Page xx - ... corruption of the original name Fierabras), a gigantic Saracen knight, whose adventures it related. Of this an English metrical version, preserved in a MS. in the Bodleian Library, was for the first time printed in the year 1877, by the Early English Text Society. The Editor (Mr. SJ Herrtage) states, " The poem is written in a southern (probably Devonshire) dialect, but has an unusually large admixture of midland and northern forms," probably from the author having resided " for some considerable...
Page 259 - thys endys m^th," read "thys endys ny$th." 1. 521. " by )>is lijte." Perhaps this is merely an asseveration. L 971. An acre was a definite quantity of land, originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, afterwards limited by statutes passed in the 31st years of Edw.
Page ix - Iherusalem / last of the said iij worthy Somme persones of noble estate and degree haue desyred me to reduce thystorye and lyf of the noble and crysten prynce...
Page 268 - It is by no means unlikely, however, that the circumstance of Taillefer singing in the battle was an invention of the chroniclers, after the battle of Rongevaux had become itself a popular subject of song — and that the ground of the story •was his fame as a poet.
Page 150 - Dame ; " Was noon so hardy that wente by the weye That with hire dorste rage, or ones pleye, But if he wolde be slayn of Symekyn, With panade, or with knyf, or boidekyn ; 3960 For jalous folk ben perilous everemo ; Algate they wolde hire wyves wenden so. And eek for she was somdel smoterlich, She was as digne as water in a dich, As ful of hoker, and of bisemare. 3965 Hir thoughte that a lady sholde hire spare, What for hire kynrede and hir nortelrie, That she hadde lerned in the nonnerie. A doghter...
Page 158 - ... guetierent ensemant , Cornent et crient jusqu'à l'ajornemant. Clarel se lieve entre lui et sa gient , De la chambre ist, si apele .1. serjant, Plus li a dit qu'il li aport errant Ses garnemenz , et cil i va corant , Si li aporte devant lui en present , Et cil les prent , qui mult est prouz et gient. N'ot si bel home de ci en Oriant, .XV. piez a , quant il est en estant.