History of England Under Henry the Fourth, Svazek 1

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Longmans, Green, 1884
 

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Strana 50 - A Knight of Cales, A Gentleman of Wales, And a Laird of the North Countree ; A Yeoman of Kent, With his yearly rent. Will buy them out all three...
Strana 318 - was seated in a portal, in front of the entrance of a beautiful palace ; and he was sitting on the ground. Before him there was a fountain, which threw up the water very high, and in it there were some red apples. The lord was seated cross-legged, on silken embroidered carpets, amongst round pillows. He was dressed in a robe of silk, with a high white hat on his head, on the top of which there was a special ruby, with pearls and precious stones round it.
Strana 22 - To the constable it pertaineth to have cognizance of contracts touching deeds of arms and of war out of the realm, and also of things that touch war within the realm, which cannot be determined nor discussed by the common law...
Strana 273 - I wol non of the apostles contrefete : I wol have money, wolle, chese, and whete, Al were it yeven of the pourest page, Or of the pourest widewe in a village : Al shulde hire children sterven* for famine. Nay, I wol drinke the licour of the vine, And have a joly wenche in every toun.
Strana 142 - And if he have a servant to wait upon him, as most of them have, then so much the greater will his charges be. Now by reason of these charges the children only of Noblemen do study the Laws in those Inns.
Strana 320 - For oft at festes have I wel herd say That tregetoures, within an halle large, Have made come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen up and doun.
Strana 273 - Becon's Acts of Christ and of Antichrist, p. 531 ; Parker Society. So also ' not worth his olde sho ;' CT 6290. Cf. ' For had a man slayne al his kynne, Go shryve him at a frere, And for lesse then a payre of shone, He wyl assoil him clene and sone.
Strana 300 - ... disguising, endenting, or barring, ounding, paling, winding, or bending, and semblable wast of cloth in vanitee ; but ther is also the costlewe furring in hir gounes, so moche pounsoning of chesel to maken holes, so moche dagging of sheres, with the superfluitee in length of the foresaide gounes, trailing in the dong and in the myre, on hors and eke on foot, as wel of man as of woman, that all thilke trailing is veraily (as in effect) wasted, consumed, thredbare, and rotten with dong...
Strana 319 - Franks are truly a great people, and I will give my benediction to the King of Spain, my son. It would have sufficed if he had sent you to me with the letter, and without the presents, so well satisfied am I to hear of his health and prosperous state.
Strana 320 - And after they maken the nyght so derk, that no man may see no thing. And aftre they maken the day to come ayen fair and plesant with bright Sonne to every mannes sight.

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