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" The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By cause that it was old and somdel streit This ilke Monk leet olde thynges pace, 175 And heeld after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen That seith that hunters been nat hooly men... "
First Public Examination in Literis Graecis Et Latinis - Page 14
by University of Oxford - 1879
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 630 pages
...and somdel streyt, This ilke monk Icet olde thinges pace, And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen ', That seith,...hunters been noon holy men ; Ne that a monk, whan he is reccheles3 . Is likned to a fissch that is waterles ; This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre....
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Our Public Schools: Their Influence on English History; Charter House, Eton ...

James George Cotton Minchin - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - 1901 - 486 pages
...accident. This Bishop of London of the 1 7th was of the same opinion as Chaucer's Monk in the I4th century: He yaf nat of that text a. pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been noon holy men. We learn from the Memorials of his schoolfellow Whitelocke, that Juxon kept a pack of hounds and hunted...
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The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Preestes Tale, from the Caterbury ...

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1903 - 340 pages
...som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, 175 And held3 after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been4 nat holy men; Ne that a monk, whan he is cloisterlees 3, Is likned til a fish that is waterlees...
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Prologue

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1903 - 220 pages
...som-del streit, — This ilke Monk leet olde thynges pace, '75 And heeld after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen That seith that hunters beth nat hooly men, Ne that a Monk whan he is cloysterles Is likned til a fissh that is waterles ;...
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The Prologue

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1903 - 204 pages
...som-del streit, — This ilke Monk leet olde thynges pace, 175 And heeld after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen That seith that hunters beth nat hooly men, Ne that a Monk whan he is cloysterles Is likned til a fissh that is waterles; 180...
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Chaucer's Prologue and Knightes Tale: With Grammatical and Philological ...

Geoffrey Chaucer, Stephen Haskins Carpenter - 1904 - 344 pages
...somdel streyt, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, 175 And held after the newe world the trace. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith,...is reccheles Is likned to a fissch that is waterles ; 180 This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre. But thilke text held he not worth an oystre. And...
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A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental ..., Part 2

Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1916 - 762 pages
...sv none, a, B, I; JESPERSEN, Mod. Eng. Gram., II, 1661. Sche dothe non harm to no man. MAUNDEV. ' ) He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, | That seith, that hunters been noon holy men. CHAUC. , Cant Tales, Prol. , 178. Men ought not to leue none euyll vnpunysshed. CAXTON , Fables of...
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The Principles and Progress of English Poetry

Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1904 - 772 pages
...som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, 175 And heeld after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith that hunters been nat holy men ; Ne that a monk, whan he is recchelees, Is lykned til a fish that is waterlees ; 180...
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The Principles and Progress of English Poetry

Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1904 - 726 pages
...som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, 175 And heeld after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith that hunters been nat holy men ; Ne that a monk, whan he is recchelees, Is lykned til a fish that /s waterlees ; 180...
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Introduction to English Literature, with Suggestions for Further Reading and ...

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...streyt, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, 175 And held after the newe world the space. He gaf not of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters...is reccheles Is likned to a fissch that is waterles ; 18o This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre. But thilke text held he not worth an oystre. And...
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