Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries Published from Ancient Manuscripts: The process of the seuyn sages. Octouian imperator. Sir Amadas. The huntyng of the hare. Notes. Glossary

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A. Constable and Company, 1810
 

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الصفحة 322 - I will set a strong wall between you and them. Bring me iron in large pieces, until it fill up the space between the two sides of these mountains.
الصفحة 321 - And he followed his way, until he came to the place where the sun setteth ; and he found it to' set in a spring of black mud ; and he found near the same a certain people.
الصفحة 323 - Lord: but when the prediction of my Lord shall come to be fulfilled, he shall reduce the wall to dust; and the prediction of my Lord is true. On that day we will suffer some of them to press tumultuously like waves on others; and the trumpet shall be sounded, and we will gather them in a body together. And we will set hell, on that day, before the unbelievers; whose eyes have been veiled from my remembrance, and who could not hear my words.
الصفحة 373 - Solomon was David's heir; and he said, O men, we have been taught the speech of birds, and have had all things bestowed on us; this is manifest excellence.
الصفحة 362 - : ha de saber herrar un caballo, y aderezar la silla y el freno: y volviendo á lo de arriba, ha de guardar la fe á Dios y á su dama: ha de ser casto en los pensamientos, honesto en las palabras, liberal en las obras, valiente en los hechos, sufrido en los trabajos, caritativo con los menesterosos, y finalmente mantenedor de la verdad aunque le cueste la vida el defenderla.
الصفحة 177 - How God man helpys ? The chyld sok forth, withoute fayle, Among the whelpys. The tygre louede more tho That chylde than her whelpys two : Hyt ys well fern men seyden so, That bestyn kyng Hys kynde may he noght forgo, For no lykyng : 480 A chyld that ys of kynges blood, A lyoun ne struys hyt for no good...
الصفحة 326 - At an opening of this mountain the fortress appears : and travelling forwards, at the distance of two stages, they found another mountain, with a ditch cut through it one hundred and fifty cubits •wide ; and within the aperture an iron gate fifty cubits high, supported by vast buttresses, having an iron bulwark crowned with iron turrets, reaching to the summit of the mountain itself, which is too high to be seen. The valves, lintels, threshold, lock and key, are all represented as of proportion.
الصفحة 251 - A reyde wey to the town he had. He spyrd to the marchandes yn ; And when he to his yn come, His lordes soper he dyght full sone, Of gud meytes and fyne.
الصفحة 350 - This simile is a remarkably common one in the romances, but the last word is generally spelt " whales-bone." The allusion is very evidently, as Mr Ritson observes, to the ivory of the horn or tooth of the narwhal, or sea unicorn, which seems to have been mistaken for the whale. The phrase occurs in the Earl of Tolouse, Sir Eglamour, Sir Isembras, in Skelton, Spenser, and even in Shakespeare. 229, Out of the rofes sche gan her dyght.~] The curious and romantic fable of Richard and Cassodorien, here...
الصفحة 128 - And of thai toke the clathes sone That the lady had hir on. Thai dight hir in the garmentes gay That sho had on that other day ; With gerlandes and with gleterand thing Was sho made out of knawyng. " When al was done als it sold be Vnto the erl his lord went he. " Sir, he sayd, I wald the pray Of a ded this ilk day, 3340 That I mai wed hir to my while ; For with hir wil I lede my lyfe.

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