The monastery of saint Werburgh: a poem [by W.P. Greswell]. by W.P. Greswell |
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The Monastery of Saint Werburgh: A Poem [By W.P. Greswell] William Parr Greswell,William Parr Werburgh No preview available - 2016 |
The Monastery of Saint Werburgh: A Poem [By W.P. Greswell] William Parr Greswell,William Parr Werburgh No preview available - 2016 |
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Abbot ancient bade Baron beauties beneath Benedict bishops blast bold brazen breast bright canonical hours Canons Cathedral Cestria's Cestriæ Chesh Chester Chester Cathedral completorio Compline Cuculla days of yore distant dormiant drear Earl EARL of CHESTER Earldom exhibeatur Fancy Fane fate feet founder frowns grace grave hail hallowed haste haunts Higden Hist holy honours Hugh Lupus ipsam ipse Jacob's ladder King of Mercia King's Vale Royal labour Lauds legend light lustre Lysons mansion Matins merated monachus Monastery of St Monastic Monks mouldering Muse nocte NOTE o'er omni oratorio Ordericus Vitalis Ormerod's Cheshire Palatine POLYCHRONICON pride prime Prolegomena propter quæ quod RANDLE Regula ut supra RODRIGO Rule sage sate says scanty scarce scene sculptur'd Septies seqq Sext shade shrine sleep Spain storm stray thou throng tibi tread vault Vespers VILLAGER walls Werburgh wide William the Conqueror wind Woden youthful
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Page 47 - Elysium, leap'd into the sea, Cleombrotus ; and many more, too long, Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery Here pilgrims roam, that stray'd so far to seek In Golgotha him dead, who lives in heaven ; And they, who, to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised...
Page 47 - Heaven's ascent they lift their feet , when lo ! A violent cross wind from either coast Blows them transverse , ten thousand leagues awry Into the devious air ; then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tost And...
Page 47 - A violent cross wind from either coast Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry, Into the devious air. Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tost And fluttered into rags ; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds...
Page 40 - Quia de his horis dicit propheta septies in die laudem dixi tibi. Nam de nocturnis vigiliis idem ipse propheta ait, " Media nocte surgebam ad confitendum tibi.
Page 37 - In ipsa autem salutatione omnis exhibeatur humilitas omnibus venientibus sive discedentibus hospitibus: inclinato capite vel prostrato omni corpore in terra Christus in eis adoretur, qui et suscipitur.
Page 32 - Cheshire enjoyed all sovereign Jurisdiction within its own precincts, and that in so high a degree, that the ancient Earls had Parliaments of their own Barons and Tenants; and were not obliged by the English Acts of Parliament,
Page 40 - Ut ait Propheta: Septies in die laudem dixi tibi. Qui septenarius sacratus numerus a nobis sic implebitur, si Matutino, Primae, Tertiae, Sextae, Nonae, Vesperae, Completoriique tempore nostrae servitutis 5 officia persolvamus ; quia de his diurnis Horis dixit: Septies in die laudem dixi tibi.
Page 43 - Duodecimus humilitatis gradus est, si i0 oc".1 non solum corde Monachus, sed etiam ipso corpore humilitatem videntibus se semper indicet, id est, in opere, in oratorio, in monasterio, in horto, in via, in agro vel ubicumque sedens, ambulans, vel stans, inclinato sit semper capite, defixis in terram aspectibus, reum se i Prov.
Page 1 - Yet frowns defiance on th' impetuous storm What pow'rs — to more than giant bulk ally'd, Thy firm compacted mass conspir'd to raise ! Then bade thee stand secure to latest days, Wonder of after times — of Cestria's sires the pride.