The Early English Versions of the Gesta RomanorumSidney John Hervon Herrtage Early English Text Society, 1879 - 563 pagine |
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The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum Sidney John Hervon Herrtage Visualizzazione completa - 1879 |
The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum Sidney John Hervon Herrtage Visualizzazione completa - 1879 |
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Pagina 473 - Tarry a little ; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood ; The words expressly are ' a pound of flesh : ' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Pagina 536 - And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
Pagina 487 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Pagina xii - Corabola above, I apprehend, should be Parabola. [Oesterley, who has examined an enormous number of MSS., states that the proverb does not appear in one of them, but is an addition made by the editors of the printed copies : " Das sprichwort kommt in den handschriften gar nicht vor
Pagina 454 - ... after his death, and the one halfe thereof immediatelie should be assigned to them in hand : but for the third daughter Cordeilla he reserued nothing. " Neuertheles it fortuned that one of the princes of Gallia (which now is called France) whose name was Aganippus, hearing of the beautie, womanhood, and good conditions of the said Cordeilla, desired to...
Pagina 462 - Norwich,' and has crept into Blomefield's History of Norfolk in a very extraordinary manner, unaccompanied with any comment, but with the addition of the murderer's name, who is unaccountably stated to be Sir Thomas Erpingham, a well-known character.
Pagina xi - I apprehend, however, that these names may be found more analogous to the Saxon ; and, at all events, Warton's idea of an interpolation, is far from improbable. Mr. Douce adds, that the earliest editions of the Gesta were printed in Germany ; and...
Pagina 160 - I shalle fulfille thyne askynge ; and the covenaunt shalle be this, that thou make to me a charter of thine owne blood, in conducion that yf thowe kepe not thi day of payment, hit shalle be lefulle to me for to draw awey alle the flesh of thi body froo the bone with a sharp swerde, and yf thow wolt assent herto, I shalle fulfille thi wille.
Pagina 476 - ED. MARSHALL. Sandford St. Martin, Oxon. The story mentioned by your learned correspondent DR. SIMPSON, concerning the ancient worthy who lived in perplexity and died in doubt about his'lawful issue, is the subject of a ballad, probably published about the beginning of the seventeenth century, under the title of " A Pleasant History of a Gentleman in Thracia, which had four sonnes, and three of them none of his own : shewing how miraculously the true heire came to enjoy his inheritance.