 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 466 pages
...cockneys from uplandiih or country-men. There n'is land under heaven-rich1 Qfwel* of goodness it y-like. Though Paradise be merry and bright, Cokaygne is of fairer sight. What is there in Paradise But grass, and flower, and green-me ? 3 Though there be joy and great dute 4 There n'is meat but fruit.... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - Europe - 1854 - 418 pages
...Spain, Is a land i/iotc Cokaygne i, There n' is land under heaven-rich* Of wel ' of goodness it y-like ; Though Paradise be merry and bright, Cokaygne is of fairer sight. What is there in Paradise But grass and flower and green rise ?4 Though there be joy and great dute 5 There n' is meat but fruit.... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1837 - 656 pages
...West Spain, Is a land ihotc Cokaygnc, There n* is land under heaven-rich Of wel of goodness it y-likc. Though Paradise be merry and bright, Cokaygne is of fairer sight. What is there in Paradise But grass, and flower, and green rise ? Though there be joy and great (lute, There n' is meat but fruit... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 760 pages
...West Spain, Is a land ihotu Cokaygne, There n' is land under heaven-rich Of wel of goodness it y-like. Though Paradise be merry and bright Cokaygne is of fairer sight. What is there in Paradise But grass, and flower, and green rise ? Though there be joy and great dute, There n' is meat but fruit... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 pages
...West Spain Is a land ihote5 Cokaygne, There n'is land under heaven* rich Of wel* of goodness it ylike. Though Paradise be merry and bright, Cokaygne is of fairer sight. What is there in Paradise But grass, and flower, and green-rise ?' Though there be joy and great dute" There n'is meat but fruit.... | |
 | 1886 - 580 pages
...bright, Cokaygne is of fairer eight ; What is there in Paradise ? Both grass and flower, and green rig (boughs). Though there be joy and great dute (pleasure), There is not one meat, but fruit There is not hall, bower, or bench, But water, man's thirst to quench." ( 373 )... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...Is a land called Cokaygne. There is no land beneath Heaven's sway Like it in wealth and fine array, Though Paradise be merry and bright Cokaygne is of fairer sight. What, in Paradise, is there seen But grass, flowers, branches green ? Though there be joy and delight There... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Social Science - 2007 - 389 pages
...thirteenth century," says Mr. Wright (S. Patricks Purgatory), "which was printed very inaccurately by Hicks, from a manuscript which is now in the British Museum,"...In Paradise are only two men, Enoch and Elias; but Coeaigne is full of happy men and women. There is no land like it under "Villemarque, Bare. Breiz,... | |
 | Archaeology - 1874 - 350 pages
...version of a curious English poem of the XHIth century, in which " Cokaygne " is described : — " Though Paradise be merry and bright, Cokaygne is of...bower, nor bench, But water man's thirst to quench." lu Paradise are only two men, Enoch and Elias, but Cokayne is full of happy men and women. There is... | |
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Though Paradise be merry and bright, Cokaygne is of fairer sight; What is there in Paradise? Both grass and flower and green ris (Boughs). Though there be joy and great dute (pleasure), There is not meat, but fruit. There is not hall, bower, nor bench,... 