"Bere" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "And bere a buffet on his head, Iwys ryght all bare, And all that fell on Robyn's lote, He smote ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley
... will content ourselves with noting a few of the most conspicuous instances of monkish scholarship in these later days. At Glastonbury, Abbot John Selwood was familiar with John Free's work; indeed, presents a monk with one of that scholar's translations from the Greek.[4] His successor, Bere, was a pilgrim to Italy, and was in correspondence with Erasmus, who desired him to examine his translation of the New Testament from the Greek. A monk of Westminster, who became abbot of his house in 1465, was a diligent student, noted for his knowledge of Greek.[5] At Christ Church, Canterbury, ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage
... Complain I, for ye be my lady dear; I am so sorry now that ye been lyght, I am so sorry now that ye be light, For certes, but yf ye make me hevy chere For certainly, but if ye make me heavy cheer Me were as leef be layde upon my bere; I would as soon be laid upon my bier; For which unto your mercy thus I crye, For which unto your mercy thus I cry, Beeth hevy ageyne, or elles mote I dye. Be heavy again, or else must ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall |
