"Grene" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... English Proclamation of Henry III. (see the facsimile). Robert Mannyng of Brunne (Bourn). West Midland. The Prose Psalter. William of Palerne. The Pearl and Alliterative Poems. Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight. ...
— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat
... they cast on their gownes of grene, And tooke theyr bowes each one; And they away to the greene forrest A shooting ...
— The Book of Old English Ballads • George Wharton Edwards
... example, all menne maie take to frame their owne life, and also to bryng vp in godlie educacion their children: that while age is tender and young, thei maie learne by example of the Ante, to prouide in their grene and lustie youth, some meane of art and science, wher- by thei maie staie their age and necessite of life, al soche as do flie labour, and paine in youth, and seeke no waie of Arte and science, in age thei shall fall ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde
... to his side, It lists him farther to ride, to ride; He rode along by the grene shaw; {f:12} The Brute-carl {f:13} there with surprise he saw. Look ...
— Romantic Ballads - translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces • George Borrow
... flowyre of fresh devise, Wyth rubies set that lusty were to sene, And she in gown was light and summer-wise, Shapen full—the colour was of grene, With aureat sent about her sides clene, With divers stones, precious and rich; Thus was she 'rayed, yet saw ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... and a shadie nooke, Eyther in doore or out; With the grene leaves whispering overhead Or the streete cryes all about. Where I maie reade all at my ease, Both of the newe and old; For a jollie goode booke whereon to looke, Is better ...
— The Pleasures of Life • Sir John Lubbock
... branches and the leves grene, Beshaded all the alleys that there were, And midst of every arbour might be seen, The sharpe, grene, swete juniper, Growing so fair with branches here and there, That as it seemed to a lyf without, The boughs did spread the ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving
... that fairer was to scene Than is the lilie on hire stalke grene, And fresscher than the May with ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott
... din; Gone, the song of Gamelyn; Gone, the tough-belted outlaw Idling in the "grene shawe;" All are gone away and past! And if Robin should be cast Sudden from his turfed grave, And if Marian should have 40 Once again her forest days, She would weep, and he would craze: He would swear, for all his oaks, Fall'n beneath the dockyard ...
— Keats: Poems Published in 1820 • John Keats
... yeer, and day by day, Till it fel oones in a morwe of May That Emelie, that farier was to seene Than is the lilie on his stalke grene, And fressher than the May with floures newe— For with the rose colour strof hire hewe, I not which was the fairer of hem two— Er it were day, as was hir wone to do, She was arisen and al redy dight. For May wol have no sloggardy anight. The seson priketh every ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... the medowe of flora the quene Of the goddes elycon / is the sprynge or well And by it groweth / a fayre laurell grene Of whiche the poetes do ofte wryte and tell Besyde this olyue / I dyde neuer dwell To tast the water whiche is aromatyke For to cause me ...
— A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght • Stephen Hawes
... high, then that the length of their hornes be able to reache. And let them further consider, that in the beginning of their bloodie reigne, the haruest of their iniquitie was not comen to full maturitie and ripenes. No, it was so grene, so secret I meane, so couered, and so hid with hypocrisie, that some men (euen the seruantes of God) thoght it not impossible, but that wolues might be changed in to lambes, and also that the vipere might remoue her natural venom. But God, who doth reuele in his ...
— The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment - of Women • John Knox
... wandered weldsomly[4] / in-to e lawnd at was so grene, er lay iij. herdis of deer{e} / a semely syght for to sene; y behild o my right hand / e so at sho so shene; y saw wher{e} walked / a semely yong{e} ma, at sklendur was ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various
... from eche grene wode tree, Chauntynge owte so blatauntlie, Tellynge lecturnyes to mee, Myscheefe ys whanne you are nygh. ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton
... bereth blo flour, His stalkes are so feynt and feye That nevermore groweth he heye: On the grounde he rynneth and growe As doth the erbe that hyth tunhowe; The lef is thicke, schinende and styf As is the grene Ivy leef: Uniche brod, and nerhand rownde; Men call it ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... by London stone, Th[o]roughout all Canwyke streete; Drapers mutch cloth me offred anone; Then comes me one, cryed, "Hot shepes feete"; One cryde "makerell," "ryshes grene," an other gan greete; One bad me by a hood to cover my head, But for want of mony I ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... dere draw to the dale, And leve the hilles hee,[3] And shadow them in the leves grene, Under the ...
— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers |
