 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1847 - 358 pages
...gold ruste, what schulde yren doo? For if a prest be foul, on whom we truste, No wondur is a lewid man to ruste : And schame it is, if that a prest take kepe, A schiten schepperd and a clene schepe; Wel oughte a prest ensample for to give, By his clennesse, how... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 358 pages
...gold ruste, what schulde yren doo? For if a prest be foul, on whom we truste, No wondur is a lewid man to ruste : And schame it is, if that a prest take kepe, A schiten schepperd and a clene schepe; Wel oughte a prest ensample for to give, By his clennesse, how... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 360 pages
...gold ruste, what schulde yren doo? For if a prest be foul, on whom we truste, No wondur is a lewid man to ruste : And schame it is, if that a prest take kepe, A schiten schepperd and a clene schepe ; 483. — truly. I have substituted this word, which is found... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1853 - 248 pages
...gold ruste, what schulde yren doo? For if a prest be foul, on whom we truste, No wondur is a lewid man to ruste ; And schame it is, if that a prest take kepe, A schiten schepperd and a clene scheme; Wel oughte a prest ensample for to give, By his clennesse, how... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - English poetry - 1854 - 294 pages
...gold ruste, what schulde yren doo? For if a prest be foul, on whom we truste, No wondur is a lewid man to ruste; And schame it is, if that a prest take kepe, A schiten schepperd and a clene schepe; Wei oughte a prest ensample for to give, By his clennesse, how... | |
 | Chaucer Society - 1868 - 728 pages
...And fis fugure he addede eek / fer-to That1 if1 gold ruste what1 schal Iren do 500 ffor if1 a prest1 be foul on whom we truste No wonder is a lewed man to Ruste And schame it is if1 a prest1 take kepe A schiten schepperde and a clene schepo 504 Wel ought1 a prest1 ensample for... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1871 - 168 pages
...wordes caughte, And this figure he added yit therto, That if gold ruste', what schulde yren doo ? 5UO For if a prest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewid man to ruste ; And schame it is, if that a prest take kepe, LINE 486. — To cursi, &c. ' Kofusal... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Stephen Haskins Carpenter - English language - 1872 - 342 pages
...moche and lite, Uppon his feet, and in his bond a staf. 495 This noble ensample to his scheep he_yaf, That first he wroughte, and after that he taughte,...is, if that a prest take kepe, A [foul] schepherde and a clene schepe ; Wei oughte a prest ensample for to_yive, 505 By his clennesse, how that his scheep... | |
 | William Edward Heygate - Christian life - 1873 - 182 pages
...gold ruste, what schulde yren doo ? For if a prest be foul, on whom we truste, No wondur is a lewid man to ruste ; And schame it is, if that a prest take kepe, A (miry) schepperd and a clene schepe ; Wei oughte a prest ensample for to give By his clennesse, how... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1874 - 304 pages
...his hond a staf. 495 This noble ensample to his scheep he _yaf, That first he wroughte, and afterward he taughte, Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte,....•«.-.-••• And schame it is, if that a prest take kepe, e • A [foul] schepherde [to se] and a clene schepe ; Wei oughte a prest ensample for to j'ive, 505... | |
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Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte ; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do? 
