 | English poets - 1801 - 446 σελίδες
...And sith, after their su ink, Wendeth meekly home to drink : And goeth to their collation A well-fair procession. Another abbey is thereby, Forsooth a great...of silk. .When the summer's day is hot, The young nuns take a boat, And doth them forth in that river, Both with oares and with steer. When they beth... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 464 σελίδες
...• And sith, after her swink, Wendeth meekly home to drink; And goeth to har collation, A well-fair procession. Another abbey is thereby, forsooth a great...boat, And doth ham forth in that rivere. Both with oarcs and with steer. When hi beth fiir from the abbey, Hi makcth hum naked for to i>l;\y, And lieth... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - 1854 - 418 σελίδες
...random. And goeth the wench all aboute And thwacketh all her white toute. And sith, after her swink Wendeth meekly home to drink ; And goeth to har collation...boat, And doth ham forth in that rivere, Both with oares'and with steer. When hi beth far from the abbey Hi maketh ham 1 naked for to play, And lieth... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dunham Deshler - 1847 - 736 σελίδες
...sith after hir swink, Wendeth meekly home to drink. Another abbey is thereby, Forsooth a fair great nunnery : Up a river of sweet milk Where is plenty great of silk. When the summer's day is hote, The young nunnes taketh a boat, And doth hem forth in that rivere Both with oares and with steer.... | |
 | Charles Welsh - 1907 - 650 σελίδες
...suggested passages in " The Land of Cokaigne." Compare the first two stanzas with these verses : " Up a river of sweet milk Where is plenty great of...ham forth in that rivere, Both with oares and with steere." Strong it stood, and pleasantly There I entered presently Hying to the hosts ; Dry beef was... | |
 | 1907 - 498 σελίδες
...evidently suggested passages in "The Land of Cokaigne." Compare the first two stanzas with these verses : " Up a river of sweet milk, Where is plenty great of...ham forth in that rivere, Both with oares and with steere." Again, compare with the third, fourth, and fifth stanzas these verses : "There is a well fair... | |
 | Eileen Power - 1922 - 770 σελίδες
...without an Eve. But the author will provide these jolly monks with companions worthy of their humour : Another abbey is thereby, Forsooth a great fair nunnery...day is hot, The young nunnes taketh a boat, And doth them forth in that river, Both with oares and with steer. When they beth far from the abbey They maketh... | |
 | Thomas Walsh - 1927 - 582 σελίδες
...cream-beams yellowly Held aloft the roof. THE LAND OF COKAIGNE English Folk Poetry (Later Thirteenth Century) Up a river of sweet milk, Where is plenty great of...ham forth in that rivere Both with oares and with steere. There is a well fair Abbey Of white monks and of grey: There beth bowrs and halls; All of pasties... | |
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Another abbey is thereby, Forsooth a great fair nunnery : Up a river of sweet milk Where is plenty great of silk. When the summer's day is hot, The young nunnes taketh a boat, And doth ham forth in that rivere, Both with oares and with steer. When... 
