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6 Robert Mannyng Quotes

Robert Mannyng shares old-time reflections on love, loss and personal growth.

Robert Mannyng quotes

  1. Als thai haf wryten and sayd Haf I alle in myn Inglis layd, In symple speche as I couthe, That is lightest in mannes mouthe. I mad noght for no disours, Ne for no seggers, no harpours, Bot for the luf of symple men That strange Inglis can not ken.

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  2. He felle dede doun colde as ony stone.

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  3. No thyng ys to man so dere As wommanys love yn gode manere. A gode womman is mannys blys.

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  4. There ys no solas undyr hevene Of al that a man may nevene That shuld a man so moche glew As a gode womman that loveth trew.

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  5. And thy traveyle shalt thou sone ende, For to thy long home sone shalt thou wende.

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  6. The range of his sympathies and interests makes Handlyng Synne the best picture of English life before Langland and Chaucer.

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