 And as for me, though that I can but lite, On bookes for to rede I me delite, And to hem yeve I faith and full credence, And in mine herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that there is game none, That fro my bookes maketh me to gone, But it...  Home Sketches and Foreign Recollections - Page 25by Lady Georgiana Chatterton - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 766 pages
...ban none other preve. And as for me, though that I ran hut lite, On bookes for to rede I me dclitc, And to hem yeve I faith and full credence, And in mine herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that there is game none, That fro my bookes maketh me to gone, But it be seldome on the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1815 - 618 pages
...head So I not what is best to do.— -Ib. •*" I hold it be a sickenesse 41 On bookes for to rede I me delite; And to hem yeve I faith and full credence: And in mine hei te have hem in reverence, So hertely ; that there is gaue none That fro my hookes maketh no to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1823 - 424 pages
...: — • , • . . w< And as for me, though that I can but lite, • •*£ On bookes for to rede I me delite, ^ And to hem yeve I faith and full credence, And in mine herte have hem in reverence So hertely , that there is game none, That fro my bookes maketh me to gone, ; •; • •„' But... | |
 | Barron Field - 1825 - 548 pages
...Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam, Undc prius nnlli velarint tempera Muse." LUCBETIUS, lib. L» " And as for me, though that I can but lite, On bokis for to rede I me delite, And to hem yeve I faithe and full credence, And in mine herte have hem in reverence... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1830 - 552 pages
...commendation, as if their works had been his favorites.48 41 On bookes for to rede I me delite; And to him yeve I faith and full credence : And in mine herte have hem in reverence, So hertely ; that there is gane none That fro my bookes maketh no to gone. Prol. p. 299. « That thou... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1831 - 334 pages
...in favor of the latter proposition, repeating to himself, with great unction, the lines of Chaucer : And as for me, though that I can but lite, On bokis for to read I me delite, And to 'hem yeve I iaithe and full credence, And in mine herte have 'hem in reverence, So hertily, that there is game... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1831 - 314 pages
...in favor of the latter proposition, repeating to himself, with great unction, the lines of Chaucer : And as for me, though that I can but lite, On bokis for to read I me delite, And to Tiem yeve I faithe and full credence, And in mine herte have 'hem in reverence, So hertily, that there... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 pages
...memory that had taken Bight ; Some chime of fancy wrong or right ; Or stray invention. Wordsworth. And as for me, though that I can but lite, On bokis for to rede, I me delite. And to 'hem yeve I faithc and full credence. And in mine hcrtc have 'hem in reverence... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 376 pages
...sympathy of all true readers : — And as for me, though that I can but lite, On bookes for to rede I me delite, And to hem yeve I faith and full credence, And in mine herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that there is game none, That fro my bookes maketh me to gone, But it is seldome on the... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 290 pages
...Chaucer, if Chaucer had then written : " And as for me, though that I can but lite, On bookes for to rede I me delite, And to hem yeve I faith and full credence, And in mine herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that there is game none, That fro my bookes maketh me to gone, But it be seldome on the... | |
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