 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Henry Boynton Smith - Christian fiction - 1864 - 420 pages
...For many a man hard is of his herte, He may not wepe although him sore smerte ; Therefore in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. The old knight, worthy man, who loved truth and honour, freedom and courtesy, who had fought in Christendom... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may not wepe although him sore smerte. TherfSre in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. His tippet was ay farsed • ful of knives, And pinnes, for to given fayre wives. And certainly he... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1867 - 1072 pages
...certain district. ' Wealthy landholder* ; country gentlemen of good estate. 'i Eoast. Therfore in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. His tippet was ay farsed1 ful of knives, And pinnes, for to given fayre wives. And certainly he hadde... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1868 - 360 pages
...For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may not wepe although him sore smerte. Therfore in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. CHAUCER. 4. And saide thus ; Now, lordinges, trewely Te ben to me welcome right hertily : For by my... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may not wepe, although him sore smerte. Therfore in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. ' ' This lively irony had an exponent before in Jean de Meung. But Chaucer pushes it further, and sets... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may not wepe, although him sore smerte. Therfore in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. ' l This lively irony had an exponent before in Jean de Meung. But Chaucer pushes it further, and sets... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may not wepe although him sore smerte. Therfore in atede mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty ; And, if ! give theo honor due. M His tippet was ay farsed* ful of knives, And pinnes, for to given fayre wives. And certainly he hadde... | |
 | M. J. Guest - Great Britain - 1879 - 700 pages
...ordered, and very ready to give absolution, as long as he got plenty of money. " Therefore, instede of weping and praieres Men mote give silver to the poure freres." Chaucer tells this and a great deal more, with a smile on his face. William Langlande, however, says... | |
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For if he gave, he dorste make avant, He wiste that a man was repentant. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may not wepe although him sore smerte. Therfore in stede of weping and praieres, Men mote give silver to the poure freres. His tippet was... 
