 | Thomas Warton - 1774 - 654 pages
...anonymous author of the metrical life of Anno, archbifhop of Cologr The following ftanza is a fpecimen h. ' Sende God biforen him man The while he may to hevene, For betere is on elmefle biforen Thanne ben after fevene k. That is, " Let a man fend his good works before him to "... | |
 | Johann Christoph Adelung, Anthony Florian Madinger Willich - 1798 - 200 pages
...terms, I am inclined to think it of rather higher antiquity. The following fianza is a fpecimen : ' Sende God biforen him man The while he may to hevene, For betere is on elmeffe biforen Thanne ben after fevene." That is, V Let a man fend his good woiks before him to heaven... | |
 | Anthony Florian Madinger Willich - 1798 - 350 pages
...than feven afterwards." The verfes perhaps might have been thus written as two Alexandrines: ' Send God biforen him man the while he may to hevene, For betere is on elmefle biforen, than ben after fevene.' ' Yet alternate rhyming, applied without regularity, and r,s... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 pages
...1. iv. c. 56. MSS. in the Bodleian library, written, he thinks, before the Norman conquest : " Send God biforen him man The while he may to hevene, For betere is on elmesse bifore Thanne ben after sevene "." Similar to the verses of the old French poet, Marot ; "... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1870 - 1070 pages
...of the metrical life of Anno, archbishop of Cologne. The following stanza is a specimen: [St. xiv.] Sende God biforen him man The while he may to hevene, For betere is on elmesse biforen Thanne ben after scvene.0 Edward IIÏ, many of our lawyers composed their tracts in... | |
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Let a man fend his good works before him to " heaven while he can : for one alms-giving before death is '* of more value than feven afterwards. 