Mémoires couronnés et mémoires des savants étrangers publiés: par l'Académic royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. Tome I-LXII, 1817-[1904]. |
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Stran 31 - ... who hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear ; But mice and rats, and such small deer,* Have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Stran 136 - How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning?
Stran 493 - O wherefore should I busk my head ? Or wherefore should I kame my hair * For my true Love has me forsook, And says he 'll never loe me mair.
Stran 69 - For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear you : yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you ; for I think you have no money in your purse.
Stran 13 - I satisfy every man ; and so to do, took an old book and read therein ; and certainly the English was so rude and broad that I could not well understand it. And also my lord Abbot of Westminster did...
Stran 366 - A lightning before death : O ! how may I Call this a lightning ? — O, my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy...
Stran 449 - Han holden me in honour and nobley, Wheras I was not worthy for to be, That thanke I God and you, to whom I prey Foryelde it you", ther is no more to sey: Unto my fader gladly wol I wende, And with him dwell unto my lives ende; Ther I was fostred of a childe...
Stran 479 - SWEET sir, for your courtesie, When ye come by the Bass, then, For the love ye bear to me, Buy me a keekin' glass, then. " Keek into the draw-well, Janet, Janet ; There ye'll see your bonnie sell, My jo Janet." Keekin' in the draw-well clear, What if I fa' in, sir ? Then a' my kin' will say and swear I droun'd mysell for sin, sir.
Stran 91 - TEANSlation preserved among the MSS. of the old Royal Library in the British Museum. Vol. I. containing the first eight books, comprising the Period prior to the Norman Conquest. Edited by Sir Henry Ellis.