 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 pages
...What so he were of high or low estat, Him wolde he snibbeni5 sharply for the nones : A better preest I trowe that no wher non is ; He waited after no pompe nc reverence, He maked him no spiced conscience, But Cristcs love and his apostles' twelve He taught,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 502 pages
...What so he were of high or low estat, Him wolde he snibben16 sharply for the nones : A better preest I trowe that no wher non is ; He waited after no pompe ne reverence, He maked him no spiced conscience, But Cristes love and his apostles' twelve He taught, but first he... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 342 pages
...parishens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wondrous diligent, And in adversite ful patient. He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him no spiced conscience, But Christes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve. The other person... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1855 - 636 pages
...highe, or low estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones.* A better preest I trowe that nowher non is. He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him no spiced conscience,3 But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...preest I trowe that nowher1 поп ¡в He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne makcd him no spicedv conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwcd it himselve. With him ther was a Plowman, was his brother. That hadde ylaid of dong* ful many... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 622 pages
...highe, or low estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nonea,4 A better preest I trowe that nowher non is. He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him no spiced conscience,6 But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...highe, or low estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones. A better preest I trowe that nowher non is. He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne...twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve. To obviate the difficulties arising from this source, various attempts have been made to translate... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...highe or low estat, Him wolde he snibben1 sharply for the nones. A better preest I trowe that nowher2 non is. He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him no spiced1 conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1858 - 798 pages
...King James, &c." EllWABD F. RlMBABLT. THE DIFFICULTIES OP CHAUCER. NO. XII. Spiced Conscience. — " He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him no spiced conscience." Cant. Tales, 527-8. We all know what is meant by salving the conscience. The difficulty felt with respect... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - Archaeology - 1859 - 494 pages
...highc or low estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones. A better preest I trowe that nowher non is : He waited after no pompe, ne reverence, Ne...apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve."1 1 Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. 1. 52.— 630. _ I I y. ^ S±3X~S 21. s interaft the... | |
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A better preest I trowe that nowher non is. He waited after no pompe ne reverence, Ne maked him no spiced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught, but first he folwed it himselve. 
