Billeder på siden
PDF
ePub
[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
[blocks in formation]

As twenty thousand men might it behold;

His office naturel ay wol it hold,
Up peril of my lif, til that it die.
"Here may ye see wel, how that
genterie

Is not annexed to possession,
Sith folk ne don their operation
Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his
kind,

For God it wot, men may full often find

A lorde's son do shame and vilanie. And he that wol have prize of his genterie,

For he was boren of a gentil house, And had his elders noble and virtuous,

And n'ill himselven do no gentil dedes,

Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that

dead is,

He n'is not gentil, be he duke or erl;

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]
« ForrigeFortsæt »