"Lasse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bedewer hys botyler he [gh]af Normandye; 120 knights, He [gh]af to Holdyne flaundrys parde; To Borel hys Cosyn, Boloyne [th]e cyte; And eche man, after [th]e astat [th]at he was, He rewarded hem alle, bo[th]e More & lasse, 124 and returns to And [gh]af hem reward, bo[th]e lond and Fee, Britain. And turned to Breteyn, to ...
— Arthur, Copied And Edited From The Marquis of Bath's MS • Frederick J. Furnivall
... for men sein, and soth it is, That who that al of wisdom writ It dulleth ofte a mannes wit To him that schal it aldai rede, For thilke cause, if that ye rede, I wolde go the middel weie And wryte a bok betwen the tweie, Somwhat of lust, somewhat of lore, That of the lasse or of the more 20 Som man mai lyke of that I wryte: And for that fewe men endite In oure englissh, I thenke make A bok for Engelondes sake, The yer sextenthe of kyng Richard. What schal befalle hierafterward God wot, for now upon this tyde Men ...
— Confessio Amantis - Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, 1330-1408 A.D. • John Gower
... was drunken but its note was even more ironic than when his mirth had been excited by the mean drama of the women. He fell back in his chair for he was unable to stand. "Well, go back where you came from. There's nothing here for you. Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse.... Here—what's your name?" he said brutally to his companion. "Go and get me ...
— Sleeping Fires • Gertrude Atherton
... Sirs that did; I have beene harsh To large Confessors, and have hotly ask'd them If they had Mothers: I had one, a woman, And women t'wer they wrong'd. I knew a man Of eightie winters, this I told them, who A Lasse of foureteene brided; twas thy power To put life into dust; the aged Crampe Had screw'd his square foote round, The Gout had knit his fingers into knots, Torturing Convulsions from his globie eyes, Had almost drawne their spheeres, that what was life In him seem'd ...
— The Two Noble Kinsmen • William Shakespeare and John Fletcher [Apocrypha] |
