His felaw had a staf tipped with horn, A pair of tables all of ivory, And a pointel ypolished fetisly. And wrote alway the names, as he stood, Of alle folk that yave hem any good, Askaunce that he wolde for hem preye. Ivories Ancient and Mediæval - 110. oldalszerző: William Maskell - 1875 - 124 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 534 oldal
...35. Ascaunce I am of manners most chaungeable. — Lydgate, Trag., fol. 1366. His felaw had a staf tipped with horn, A pair of tables all of ivory, And a pointel ypolished fetishly, And wrote always the names as he stood Askaunce that he wolde for hem preye. Chau., Sompnoure's Tale, 7327. Whoso... | |
| Alfred Maskell - 1905 - 848 oldal
...common in early writings. Chaucer in the Sompnour's tale tells us of the friar's companion that he had " A pair of tables all of ivory And a pointel ypolished fetishly," and " He planed away the names everich on That he before had written in his tables." He was a preaching... | |
| 1898 - 782 oldal
...ascribing them to remoter times. In Chaucer's " Sompnour's Tale," one of the friars is provided with — " A pair of tables all of ivory, And a pointel ypolished fetishly, And wrote always the names, as he stood, Of alle folk that yave hem any good." The Roman practice of writing... | |
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