The Poetical Works of John Skelton, المجلد 2

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Little, Brown and Company, 1856 - 453 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 291 - That any other sayth ; He hath in him suche fayth. Now, yet all this myght be Suffred and taken in gre, If that that he wrought To any good ende were brought ; But all he bringeth to nought, By God, that me dere bought ! He bereth the kyng on hand, That he must pyll his lande, «o To make his cofers ryche ; But he laythe all in the dyche, And vseth suche abusyoun, That in the conclusyoun All commeth to confusyon.
الصفحة 283 - Clappyng his rod on the borde, No man dare speke a worde, For he hathe all the sayenge, Without any renayenge ; m He rolleth in his recordes, He sayth, How saye ye, my lordes...
الصفحة 95 - For drede ye dysplease the hygh deyte. Put your wyll to his wyll, for surely it is he That may restore you agayne to felycyte, And brynge you agayne out of aduersyte.
الصفحة 286 - Our barons be so bolde, Into a mouse hole they wolde Rynne away and crepe ; Lyke a mayny of shepe. Dare nat loke out at dur For drede of the mastyue cur, For drcde of the bochers dogge Wold wyrry them lyke an hogge.
الصفحة 187 - Togeder in armes, as brethern, enbrasid ; There apparell farre passynge beyonde that I can tell; With diamauntis and rubis there tabers were trasid, None so ryche stones in Turkey to sell ; Thei wantid nothynge but the laurell ; And of there bounte they made me godely chere, In maner and forme as ye shall after here. . Mayster Gower to Skelton.
الصفحة 8 - Whych prouyth well that measure shold haue domynyon : Where measure is mayster, plenty dothe none offence ; Where measure lackyth, all thynge dysorderyd is ; Where measure is absent, ryot kepeth resydence ; Where measure is ruler, there is nothynge amysse ; Measure is treasure : howe say ye, is it not this ? Fel.
الصفحة 95 - Ye, syr, nowe must ye lerne to lye harde, That was wonte to lye on fetherbeddes of downe ; Nowe must your fete lye hyer than your crowne : Where you were wonte to...
الصفحة 290 - Ones yet agayne Of you I wolde frayne, Why come ye nat to court? — To whyche court ? To the kynges courte, Or to Hampton Court ? — Nay, to the kynges court : The kynges courte Shulde haue the excellence ; But Hampton Court Hath the preemynence...
الصفحة 205 - Ther names recountyng in the court of Fame ; Of all gentylwomen he hath the scruteny, In Fames court reportynge the same ; For yet of women he neuer sayd shame, But if they were counterfettes that women them call, That list of there lewdnesse with hym for to brail.
الصفحة 288 - And in the Checker he them cheks ; In the Ster Chambre he noddis and beks, And bereth him there so stowte, That no man dare rowte, Duke, erle, baron, nor lorde, But to his sentence must accorde ; 340 Whether he be knyght or squyre, All men must folow his desyre.

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