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" For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown. "
William Caxton: The First English Printer: a Biography - Page 193
by Charles Knight - 1844 - 232 pages
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Typographical Antiquities; Or The History of Printing in England ..., Volume 1

Joseph Ames - Early printed books - 1810 - 716 pages
...degree they be of, that shall see and read in this same book and work, 8tc. shall well find therein many joyous and pleasant histories, and noble and...chivalries : for herein may be seen noble chivalry, curtesy; humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue and sin....
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Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume 8

William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1845 - 594 pages
...him, be were a sweet ass." — Ben Jonson. Every Man Out of his Humour. " For, in this present volume may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness,...virtue, and sin. Do after the good, and leave the ill, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown." — Caxton. Prologue to the Mort D'Arthur. CHAPTER...
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Cæsar Borgia, by the author of 'Whitefriars'.

Emma Robinson - 1846 - 1102 pages
...into the plains of Umbria. CHAPTER II. THE PILGRIMS OF THE APENNINES. " For, in this present volume may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness,...virtue, and sin. Do after the good, and leave the ill, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown." — CAXTOW, Prologue to the Mart d? Author. THE...
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The life and typography of William Caxton, Volume 1

William Blades - 1861 - 372 pages
...no quality was more desirable in the 15th Century); but, as he himself says, for the examples of " courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love,...friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin" which "inflamed the hearts of the readers and hearers to eschew and flee works vicious and dishonest."...
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Morte D'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur & of His Noble ...

Sir Thomas Malory - 1868 - 588 pages
...many joyous and pleasant histories, and noble and renowned acts of humanity, gentleness, and chivalry. For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity,...love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and siníVSDo after the good and leave the ("Evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renommée. And...
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Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of ..., Volume 149

Sir Thomas Malory - Arthurian romances - 1868 - 528 pages
...and his countrymen by printing it ; and that he justly estimated its probable effect when he says, ' Herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity,...love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, sin. Do after the good, and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renommée. . ....
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The Life and Times of S. Edward, King and Confessor

Cecilia MacGregor - 1873 - 318 pages
...King Arthur, printed in 1485 lands us at once into all the legendary hero worship of the middle ages. He exhorts noble lords and ladies, with all other...chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, and love, friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin. Do after the good and leave the evil,...
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Recreations of an Antiquary in Perthshire History and Genealogy

Robert Scott Fittis - Genealogy - 1881 - 580 pages
...releasing oppressed damsels. ' ' For in this present volum e, " said < 5 ax ton , in hia Prologue, " may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness,...virtue, and sin. Do after the good, and leave the ill, and it shall bring you into good fame and renown." According to Malory, the Round Table had been...
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Good Words

1884 - 938 pages
...they take the good and honest acts in their remembrance, and to follow the same. Wherein they shall find many joyous and pleasant histories and noble and renowned acts of humanity, gentleness, and chivalry. For herein may be seen noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness, hardiness, love,...
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Illustrated Notes on English Church History, Volume 1

Charles Arthur Lane - 1888 - 312 pages
...most probably give us a true notion of the spirit which actuated the best of the crusading knights.1 " Noble chivalry, courtesy, humanity, friendliness,...friendship, cowardice, murder, hate, virtue, and sin ;"J — all these evils and graces were mingled in strange contrast among the communities of fighting...
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