 IN olde dayes of the king Artour, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, All was this lond fulfilled of faerie; The Elf-quene, with hire joly compagnie, Danced ful oft in many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede; I speke of many hundred...  Travels in Crete - Page 194by Robert Pashley - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 794 pages
...mcdc, This was the old opinion as I rede ; I fpeke of many hundred yeres ago, But now can no man fee non elves mo ; For now the grete charitee and prayeres Of limitoures and other holy freres, That ferchcn every land and every ftreme, As thikke as motes in the fonne bemc, Eliding hallcs,... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1807 - 560 pages
...the beginning of Chaucer's admirable tale of the WifeofBath\ " I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non elves mo, For now the grete...charitee and prayeres Of limitoures and other holy frerea- . . . ., ;s • That serchen every land and every strerne. , • ._.. As thikkeas motes in... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1807 - 552 pages
...the beginning of Chaucer's admirable tale of the Wife of Bath-, " I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non elves mo, For now the grete charitee and prayeres Of limitoures and other holyfreres That serchen every land and every streme. As thikke as motes in the sonne beme, Blissing... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 490 pages
...ful oft in many a grene mede, This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago, But now can no man see non elves mo ; For now the...charitee and prayeres Of limitoures and other holy freres, That serchen every land and every streme, As thikke as motes in the sonne-beme, Blissing halles,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 496 pages
...I oft in many a grene mede, This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago, But now can no man see non elves mo ; For now the...charitee and prayeres Of limitoures and other holy freres, That serchen every land and every streme, As thikke as motes in the sonne-beme, Blissing halles,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 766 pages
...oft in many a grene tnede. This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non elves mo, For now the grete charitee and prayeres Of limitourcs and other holy freres, That serehcn every land and every streme, As thikke as motes in the... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 456 pages
...old opinion as I rede ; . " I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; " But now can no man see non elvts mo, " For now the grete charitee and prayeres ' Of limitoures and other holy freres, ' That scrchen every land and every streme,*, ' As thikke as motes in the sonne beme, Blissing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 pages
...beginning of Chaucer's admirable tale of the Wife of Bath ; 1 I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; ' But now can no man see non elves mo, ' For now the...charitee and prayeres ' Of limitoures and other holy freres ' That serchen every land and every streme. ' As thikke as motes in the sonne beme, ' Blissing... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt - 1822 - 372 pages
...oft in many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non elves mo, For now the grete...charitee and prayeres Of limitoures and other holy freres, t>448 That serchen every land and every streme, As thikke as motes in the sonne beme, Blissing... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 400 pages
...ful oft in many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede; I speke of many hundred yeres ago; But now can no man see non elves mo, For now the grete...charitee and prayeres Of limitoures and other holy freres, That serchen every land and every streme, As thikke as motes in the sonne-beme, Blissiug halles,... | |
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