 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 466 pages
...yet no benefice, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever han at his beddes hed 295 A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle,...philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, 300 But all th.-.t he might... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 766 pages
...him yet no benelicK, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever nan at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle,...and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautria. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he... | |
 | Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 470 pages
...yet no benefice, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever han at his beddes hed 293 A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...worldly to have an office. For him was lever4 han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 468 pages
...overest eourtepy, For he hadde geten him yet no benefiee, Ne was nought worldly to have an offiee. For him was lever han at his beddes bed A twenty bokes, elothed in blaek or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riehe, or Iidel, or sautrie.... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 546 pages
...Ne was nought worldly to have an office : For him was lever (liefer, rather) han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes rich, or fidel, or sautrie — Sautrie is psaltry, a kind of harp or dulcimer... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 388 pages
...he hadde geten him yet no benefice, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever ban at his beddes bed A twenty bokes, clothed in black...philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 400 pages
...overest courtepy, For he hadde geten him yet no benefice, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever han at his beddes bed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 852 pages
...i! ii!) .1 SENILF.S. No. II. For him was lever ban' at his beddes bed, Twenty bokes cloth'd in Make or red, Of Aristotle and his philosophic ! Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. I CERTAINLY so far resemble Chaucer'slene clerk, that a well-filled library is one of my highest treats.... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...yet no benefice, Ne was nought worldly to have an office. For him was lever (#) han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde... | |
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A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. 
