 | Lappenberg - Great Britain - 1858 - 746 pages
...Stuf|"d)luC bei Diicolaê, Proceeding« V, Preface, p. CXLTI ff. 2) Nicola» VI, p. XXI. 3) Hit is unkyndly. for a knight that shuld a kynges castel kepe To bable the bible day and night in reetyng tyme when he shuld slepe, And care fol y awey to crepe for alle the chief of chiualrie, Wei... | |
 | George Punchard - Church history - 1865 - 618 pages
...I7 Always wont. That construen hit after herI entent,3 For levdc lust of Lollardic. Hit is unkyndly for a knight, That shuld a kynges castel kepe, To bable the bibel day and night, In rcstyng tymo when he shuM slepe, And carefoly awey to crepe, For alle the chief... | |
 | James Gairdner, James Spedding - Divine right of kings - 1881 - 348 pages
...v. ; of whom we find the opinion of his contemporaries expressed as follows : — " Hit is unkyndly for a knight That shuld a kynges castel kepe, To bable the Bibel clay and night In restyng tyme when he shuld slope, And carefoly awey to crepe For alle the chief... | |
 | John Ashton - Fleet River, (London, England) - 1888 - 426 pages
...Political Songs from Edward II. to Henry VI." " Hit is unkindly for a Knight That shuld a kyngcs caste! kepe, To bable the Bible day and night, In restyng...shuld slepe, And carefoly away to crepe ; For alle the chefe of chivalrie, Wcl ought hym to wail and wcpc, That swychc ' lust is in Lollardie." The English... | |
 | John Ashton - Fleet River, (London, England) - 1888 - 458 pages
...Songs from Edward II. to Henry VI." " Hit is unkindly for a Knight That shuld a kynges castel kcpe, To bable the Bible day and night, In restyng time...when he shuld slepe, And carefoly away to crepe ; For allc the chefe of chivalrie, Wcl ought hym to wail and wcpe, That swyche ' lust is in Lollardic." The... | |
 | John Ashton - Fleet, River (England) - 1889 - 444 pages
...Political Songs from Edward II. to Henry VI." " Hit is unkindly for a Knight That shuld a kynges castcl kepe, To bable the Bible day and night, In restyng time when he shuld slepe, And carcfoly away to erepe ; For alle the chefe of chivalrie, Wcl ought hym to wail and wcpe, That swyche... | |
 | Samuel Marion Tucker - English poetry - 1908 - 276 pages
...Oldcastle, on whose name he puns through several stanzas with more labor than wit : " Hit is unkyndly for a knight, That shuld a kynges castel kepe, To bable the bibel day and night, In restyng tyme when he shuld slepe, And carfoly awey to crepe, For alle the chief... | |
 | James Gairdner - Lollards - 1908 - 604 pages
...addressed to Oldcastle, it refers to him indirectly in the following stanzas : — Hit is unkyndly for a knight, That shuld a Kynges castel kepe, To bable the Bibel day and night In reatyng tyme when he shuld slepe ; And carefoly awey to crepe, For alle the... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2001 - 398 pages
...butt into an exceptionally appealing character with a quicksilver mind and tongue. 18 'Hit is unkyndly for a knight / That shuld a kynges castel kepe, / To bable the Bibel day and night ' (Ballade). Cited in Wilhelm von Baeske, OldcastleFalstaff in der englischen Literatur... | |
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... he was slowly roasted to death in December, 1417. A pious nobleman, like the late Lord Shaftesbury, for instance, was not popular at that time, if we may believe a few lines from " Wright's Political Songs from Edward II. to Henry VI. 