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42975( Surely this is more suggestive of Eve than of the serpent?)
42975Again, what was that contract?
42975But allowing that it occurred on the rolls, was it a genuine transaction or was it a facetious invention of the manor clerk?
42975John Enot, archdeacon of Buckingham in the fifteenth century, complained tearfully that one Thomas Coneloye( was he a lawless Irish Connelly?)
42975The first question is, is this a genuine extract from the rolls?
6493363?).
6493?
6493?
6493A Syriac writer(?).
6493From the earliest times men have asked themselves two questions about nature:"Why?"
6493Lyon?
6493MISALATH ASTROLOGUS(?).
6493SYMON CORNUBIENSIS(?).
6493_ Dutch Version_ H 2521 1479?
6493and"How?"
6493any glutinous substance Gnod,_ v._, to rub?
19468And what can they show, and what reason give, why they should be more the masters than ourselves?
19468Are we not all descended from the same parents-- Adam and Eve?
19468Basil says:''If you admit that God gave these temporal goods to you, is God unjust in thus unequally distributing His favours?
19468But on what foundation could his declaratory act be based?
19468By what standard are"superfluities"themselves to be judged?
19468How much"need"must first be endured before a man has a just claim on another''s superfluity?
19468How was it possible to determine whether such a one was in real need or not?
19468How, then, was this paradox to be explained?
19468If all were equal, what justification would there be for civil authority?
19468If civil authority was to be upheld, wherein lay the meaning of St. Paul''s many boasts of the new levelling spirit of the Christian religion?
19468Should we say, then, that in this way they had failed?
19468What else is this really but the teaching of Aristotle that there should be"private property and common use"?
19468What is to be done for them?
19468What was to be the Christian attitude towards them?
19468What, then, is to be done, for"they be commonly mighty, and no man dare take from them"?
19468Why should you abound, and another be forced to beg, unless it is intended thereby that you should merit by your generosity, and he by his patience?
19468and for what reason do they thus hold us in bondage?
38680Why take the style of these heroic times? 38680 ''How do you do it?'' 38680 Amadas, Tristrem, Ideine, yea Isold, that lived with love so true? 38680 And Caesar, rich in power and sway, Hector the strong, with might to do? 38680 And what besides is there that does not tell of our Blessed SAVIOUR? 38680 And why? 38680 Are there each year more and more of the unskilled classes pursuing hopelessly the elusive phantom of self- support and independence? 38680 Are they, as in a dream, working faster, only the more swiftly to move backward? 38680 But if so, why should we refuse credit to the assertion, repeated in every MS. that they were first written in Latin? 38680 But who KNOWETH THE ORDINANCES OF HEAVEN, OR CAN FIX THE REASONS THEREOF UPON THE EARTH? 38680 Could Christ''s Mother see there weeping, See the pious Mother keeping Vigil by the Son she loved? 38680 Could behold that sight unmoved? 38680 Father Paschal Robinson, O. S. M., in hisThe True St. Francis"says:--"What is the cause of the present widespread homage to St. Francis?
38680For nature brings not back the mastodon-- Nor we those times; and why should any man Remodel models?"
38680Ham-- Shall we all feche her in?
38680Here is his opinion:"How many people in the country are in poverty?
38680I quote part of the paragraph:"What were the permanent causes of that situation which lasted for ten centuries?
38680Is it any wonder that there should be social unrest and discontentment?
38680Is it so indeed?
38680Is the number yearly growing larger?
38680Just as the first edition of this book came from the press, Ambassador Bryce delivered his address at Harvard on"What is Progress?"
38680King Henry, M. Paris supposes, wished them to be collected, but how?
38680Many other modern scientists(?)
38680Noye-- Wiffe, come in: why standes thou their?
38680Quis est homo, qui non fleret, Matrem Christi si videret, In tanto supplicio?
38680Was the romance of the St. Graal Latin, before it was French?
38680What can we see in these that is stiff, sickly, and puny?
38680When shall we once more behold Kings like lion- hearted Richard, France''s monarch, stout and bold?
38680Where are the liberties of England, often reduced to writing, so often granted, so often again denied?"
38680Would not most of the world confess that the advantage was with the medieval peoples?
38680coelica mansio stat lue plenis; Quid datur et quibus?
39608Agreed, then, is it not?....
39608Already had the first woman entered into a sort of compact with the devil; should not then her daughters do it also?
39608And have you imagined that by the exclamation''Conquer, moon''(_ vince, Luna_), you could reproduce its light?
39608And how can these dangers be averted?
39608And what again is this power compared with the pure celestial knowledge to which magic delivers the key?
39608Another question is, how are the divine miracles to be distinguished from the infernal?
39608At what hour did the hand on the clock of time point at that moment?
39608Beware of repeating the mistake which''common sense''is so prone to make in seeing absurdities in truths which happen to be beyond its horizon?
39608Do the aspects oppose?
39608Do you not shrink before the idea that human hunger for truth must have been satisfied from Adam to our own days by nothing but illusions?
39608First we are met with the question: Is the hour favorable?
39608Has it not a pedigree more noble than that of any royal family?
39608Have you there kindled fires and sacrificed bread or aught else?"
39608How can you explain that your cow yields three times as much milk as the cows of others?"
39608How did it happen that the child( or the cow) soon after fell sick?
39608If some of the consecrated bread is found in the stomach of a rat, is it a duty to eat it?
39608In connection with this it was further asked: How is a rat which has eaten of Christ''s body to be treated,--ought it to be killed or honored?
39608In yonder furthest room a jurisconsult expounds a passage in the pandects.--Or perhaps you would rather not choose at all?
39608Ought the sacrament to be venerated even in the stomach of the rat?
39608Shall we enter and listen to some of these lectures which are about to be delivered?
39608Shall we perform one?
39608The Christian has some reason to exclaim:"O hell, where is thy victory?"
39608What must be done if immediately after partaking of the sacrament one is attacked by vomiting?
39608What was your business outside of your house when the storm broke forth?
39608When the teacher is such, what must the disciples be?
39608When you wished to pray, have you resorted to other places than the church, as, for instance, to springs, stones, trees or crossroads?
39608Which was the one only seemingly living, he or I?
39608Who can hear, for instance, the words_ wind_, or_ swing_, without perceiving in the very sound something airy or oscillating?
39608Who can hear_ stand_, and_ strong_, without perception of something stable and firm?
39608Who was right, the magician or myself?
39608Why have you been observed upon the precincts of N. N.?
39608Why have you touched N. N.''s child( or cow)?
39608[ 48] It might now be asked: How is it possible that God permits sorcery?
31303''And how dost thou know me?'' 31303 ''And what are these?''
31303''Then tell me why,''said the man,''you yourself are weeping with such grief? 31303 ''What dost thou here?''
31303''What is that to you?'' 31303 And what attitude, what gesture, can he expect from this stripped and artificially draped model? 31303 But had these Germans of the days of Luther really no thought beyond their own times and their own country? 31303 Could it be otherwise? 31303 Does the art of Italy tell an impossible, universal lie? 31303 Had they not discovered that what had been called right had often been unnatural, and what had been called wrong often natural? 31303 Had they really no knowledge of the antique? 31303 He might as well ask, Why did the commonwealths not turn into a modern monarchy? 31303 If Cæsar Borgia be free to practise his archery upon hares and deer, why should he not practise it upon these prisoners? 31303 If he had for his mistress every woman he might single out from among his captives, why not his sister? 31303 If he have the force to carry out a plan, why should a man stand in his way? 31303 Is he to forget the saints and Christ, and give himself over to Satan and to Antiquity? 31303 Is he to yield or to resist? 31303 Is it a thing so utterly dead as to be fit only for the scalpel and the microscope? 31303 Is the impression received by the Elizabethan playwrights a correct impression? 31303 Is the new century to find the antique still dead and the modern still mediæval? 31303 Is this really a bacchanal? 31303 Scientifically we doubtless lose; but is the past to be treated only scientifically? 31303 Sismondi asks indignantly, Why did the Italians not form a federation as soon as the strangers appeared? 31303 Such are the parents, Faustus and Helena; we know them; but who is this son Euphorion? 31303 Was Italy in the sixteenth century that land of horrors? 31303 Was the relation between them that of tuition, cool and abstract; or of fruitful love; or of deluding and damning example? 31303 What has become of Calypso''s island? 31303 What passes in the mind of that artist? 31303 What surprise, what dawning doubts, what sickening fears, what longings and what remorse are not the fruit of this sight of Antiquity? 31303 What tragic type can this evil Italy of Renaissance give to the world? 31303 What was that strong intellectual food which revived the energies and enriched the blood of the Barbarians of the sixteenth century? 31303 What were those intellectual riches of the Renaissance? 31303 What would have been the art of the Renaissance without the antique? 31303 What would the noble knights and ladies of Ariosto and Spenser think of them? 31303 What would they say, these romantic, dainty creatures, were they to meet Nausicaa with the washed linen piled on her waggon? 31303 Whence do they come? 31303 Where in this Renaissance of Italian literature, so cheerful and light of conscience, is the foul and savage Renaissance of English tragedy? 31303 Who can prevent him? 31303 Who will blame him? 31303 Why? 31303 and can it not give us, and do we not owe it, something more than a mere understanding of why and how? 31303 cried the man;''it is for a stinking hound that you waste the tears of your body? 31303 of the orchards of Alcinous? 31303 or is the art of England the victim of an impossible, universal hallucination? 31304 But where is the use of telling us all this?"
31304("Io servo vostra moglie, Don Eugenio favorisce la mia; che male c''e?"
31304A no place, nowhere; yet full of details; minute inventories of the splendid furniture of castles( castles where?
31304All his humanities, all his Provençal lore go into these poems-- written for whom?
31304And what are those things?
31304Are not these mediæval poets leagued together in a huge conspiracy to deceive us?
31304But could such love as this exist, could it be genuine?
31304But how achieved?
31304But is it right that we should feel thus?
31304But is it right thus to pardon, redeem, and sanctify; thus to bring the inferior on to the level of the superior?
31304Can there be love between man and wife?
31304Equality?
31304Fools, can you tell what did or did not take place in a poet''s mind?
31304For her?
31304For is he not the very incarnation of chivalry, of beauty, and of love?
31304Has such a thing really existed?
31304In short, is not this"Vita Nuova"a mere false ideal, one of those works of art which, because they are beautiful, get worshipped as holy?
31304Is it Christian, Pagan, Mohammedan?
31304Is this not vitiating our feelings, blunting our desire for the better, our repugnance for the worse?
31304It is, in its very intensity, a vision of love; what if it be a vision merely conceived and never realized?
31304Now, how does Fra Angelico represent this?
31304Roncisvalle, Charlemagne, the paladins, paganism, Christendom-- what of them?
31304Shall we say that it is sentiment?
31304Stone of the Caaba or chalice of the Sacrament?
31304The great question is, How did these men of the Renaissance make their dead people look beautiful?
31304The ideal, perhaps, of only one moment, scarcely of a whole civilization; or rather( how express my feeling?)
31304The songs of the troubadours and minnesingers, what are they to our feelings?
31304Where is Godfrey, or Francis, or Dominick?
31304Where the moral struggles of the Middle Ages?
31304Why so?
31304Why this vagueness, this imperfection in all mediæval representations of life?
31304how reached?
13144''Have you any mate?''
13144''Well, well, it is very hard work?''
13144''[ 10] Who was this Katherine Riche to whom he so carefully commends himself?
13144''[ 11] What would we not give for one of those''naughty ballads''today?
13144A good ruler of her house?
13144An Anglo- Saxon writer has imagined a dialogue with him:''Well, ploughman, how do you do your work?''
13144And how were they living?
13144And what have Ausonius and his correspondents to say about this?
13144And what is thine office?
13144At what point did barbarism within become a wasting disease?
13144At what point in the assault from without did the attack become fatal?
13144But how did they feel and think and amuse themselves when they were not working?
13144But was she?
13144But what matter?
13144But while this pleasant country house and senior common room life was going calmly on, what do we find happening in the history books?
13144Cur non imus?
13144Did people realize what was happening?
13144Did the gloom of the Dark Ages cast its shadow before?
13144Gone altogether?
13144Had he loved before, under the alien skies where his youth was spent, some languid, exquisite lady of China, or hardy Tartar maid?
13144How could they foresee the day when the Norman chronicler would marvel over the broken hypocausts of Caerleon?
13144How could they imagine that anything so solid might conceivably disappear?
13144How many of the literary critics, who chuckle over her, know that she never ought to have got into the Prologue at all?
13144I_ passim_, 46, 87, 155 Roman Empire, 1- 17, 27, 42, 155 decline of, 1- 17; reasons for disintegration of, 14- 17; trade of, 1 ff?
13144Is it not true to say that Venice was the proudest city on earth,_ la noble cite que l''en apele Venise, qui est orendroit la plus bele dou siecle_?
13144It is true that the Pope excommunicated the Venetians when they first turned the armies against Zara, but what matter?
13144Meanwhile what of little Katherine Riche?
13144Miss Waddell has reminded us, on the authority of Saintsbury( whom else?)
13144Now wol ye vouche- sauf, my lady dere?
13144One day( may we not see him?)
13144Quid stamus?
13144Thereupon the bishop, who was standing near like a servant, drew closer and said:''Why do you do that, lord emperor?
13144Thomas marked his bales of cloth thus, and what other armorial bearings did he need?
13144Was it the removal of the legions from Britain, a distant people( as a Roman senator might have said) of whom we know nothing?
13144Was it, as Polybius said, because people preferred amusements to children or wished to bring their children up in comfort?
13144Was she religious?
13144Was this policy of appeasement the fatal error?
13144What hath thenne Flaundres, be Flemmyngis leffe or lothe But a lytelle madere and Flemmyshe cloothe?
13144What is civilization and what progress?
13144What might this be?
13144What then did it feel like to live at a time when civilization was going down before the forces of barbarism?
13144What will the wretches want next?
13144When she has with some difficulty risen, do you know what her hours are?
13144Why ca n''t we go away?
13144Why did they not realize the magnitude of the disaster that was befalling them?
13144Why( the insistent question forces itself) did this civilization lose the power to reproduce itself?
13144[ 15] Through the leafy forest, Bovo went a- riding And his pretty Merswind trotted on beside him-- Why are we standing still?
13144[ 16] Is it not Madame Eglentyne to the life?
13144[ 9] What, they lived once thus in Venice, where the merchants were the kings, Where St Mark''s is, where the Doges used to we d the sea with rings?
13144[ Footnote J: Possibly an inn with that name(?).]
13144is there nothing left over from last night?"
13144she would have said;"who ever heard of such a thing?
13144what shall we have to drink?
37865Dear mother, with such burning After my love he''s yearning, Ungrateful can I be? 37865 For what harmony is there,"she asks,"between a scholar and a nurse, a writing- desk and a cradle, books and spinning- wheels?
37865How is it that you lived, and what is it that you did?
37865Nay, I trust to rule a knight in armor; How then should I listen to a farmer? 37865 Nay, mother, what is God?"
37865Sire,he replied,"how could I sing unless I loved?"
37865What harm can happen to me, since my lady is gracious? 37865 What if she refuses me?"
37865Who gave you the right to lock up my gown?
37865Who, when you walked abroad, did not hurry to look at you, rising on tiptoe and with straining eyes?
37865Why should I not be angry at his insolence? 37865 You little grasshopper, whither wilt thou hop away from the nest?
37865A cry of exultant renunciation of the wilds of life''s ocean, and of contentment at the holy calm in the bosom of the church?
37865And again:"Did you ever see so gay a peasant as he is?
37865And still a third, while eating at a bishop''s table, loosened his girdle?
37865And what has this old German gallant to say of himself?
37865At this last moment is she hesitating?
37865Can it have been the increase in the culture of the Virgin, that beautiful and beneficent phase of mediæval religion?
37865Compare an earlier lover''s cry in the loveliest of French romances:"What is there in heaven for me?
37865Did they step forward to meet him?
37865Does he believe she feels herself disgraced by this relation?
37865Does he no longer attract her?
37865Fated to make thee wretched, why did I Become thy wife?
37865Fie, who brought him here?
37865God?
37865Has he made a mistake?
37865Has not a rich man ridden over the field of his god- father?
37865Has not another rich man eaten bread with crullers?
37865Has the world renewed its hold upon her?
37865He is haunted by the secret of life:"How is the soul made?
37865He selected a master, but Fleur, when he was bidden to study, burst into tears and cried,"Sire, what will Blanchefleur do?
37865Her lips part, and what will be her last words as a lady of the world?
37865How does the soul deserve God''s wrath before it is born?"
37865How may I her favors gain?
37865If laymen and gentiles have lived thus continently, bound by no religious profession, what does it become a clerk and a canon to do?
37865Indeed this was all the contentment which the blushing young knight desired:"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"
37865Is he sacrificing himself for her?
37865Is it possible that the anonymous heroine heard of such trivial infidelities?
37865May we go farther, and say that her spirit did adjust itself to its new conditions, and lose its pain in a submissive piety?
37865Nothing?
37865Or was it the Crusades?
37865Poor clumsy louts, how can the girls endure them?
37865Prithee, answer; Is it maid or is it man?
37865Shall the birds lose their happiness because of me?"
37865She kissed his lips:"Why am I opposing highest God?
37865Sir, can love from care beguile us And our sorrowing distress?
37865Sir, what is love?
37865So when the guest appeared,"Did the woman and the man cry''Welcome back, Helmbrecht''?
37865Some scriptural exhortation to her friends to follow her as she follows Christ?
37865Sweet, love is so strong and mighty That all countries own her sway; Who can speak her power rightly?
37865This happened three times; and yet, guileless Ulrich, you had no glimmering that perhaps it was a joke?
37865This will cure you( I assure you) Of all sorrows, all alarms; What alloy In his joy On whom white and pretty arms Bestow their charms?
37865Unwomanly does it appear, this unwillingness of Heloise to become her lover''s wife?
37865Was it all for nothing these ceremonial disciplines?
37865What did the child do?
37865What if Wordsworth had tried to support himself and win fame by singing at castles?
37865What if the rustic lad gives me a shove?
37865What least joy may ye impart, She so dear and good denied me?
37865What other love- letters equal the intensity, the tenderness, the womanliness of these final appeals for the broken love?
37865What region is thy heritance?"
37865What though this friend believed that the lady cared for him?
37865What though wealth exalt thy name?
37865What, not go back with so much to do?
37865When life some pleasure gives, In tears my heart will scan My face, and tell its smart; How then can pleasure stay?
37865Where''s the key?
37865Who can doubt that he did-- that every deep nature always has?
37865Who will teach her?
37865Why is it worth while to introduce to English readers this peasant tale of the middle ages?
37865Will she snatch herself from God?
37865With fair living reconcile us, Gaiety and worthiness?
37865Yet why should he manifest such reserve, at the same time that he mentions the subject so constantly, referring to it long after he has left Bavaria?
37865[ 4] We recall his great countryman''s modern cry:"Wohin es geht, wer weiss es?
42824''Did he offend the priest?'' 42824 ''Have you made no trial of the powers of your wood?''
42824''What was in it?'' 42824 ''What was she afraid of?''
42824I will not, because what would my labour profit me? 42824 Knowest thou?"
42824''Now, master,''quoth the wife,''ere that I go, What will ye dine?
42824''Sir,''said Sir Epinogris,''is that the rule of your arrant knights, for to make a knight to just whether he will or not?''
42824''Why should I not prove adventures,''said Sir Launcelot,''as for that cause came I hither?''"
42824108(?
428241:--"Well, there be guests to meat now; how shall we do for music?"
42824And first, what sort of houses did they live in?
42824Canst thou aught weten[210] us the way where that wight dwelleth?''"
42824Did the broken heart find repose?
42824Did the wild spirit grow tame?
42824Hold ye then me, or elles our convent, To pray for you is insufficient?
42824How shall the world be served?
42824How was her cell furnished?
42824May we not also infer that there were superior orders, as knight- minstrels, over whom was the king- minstrel?
42824No man having less than this, or his wife or daughter, shall wear any fur of martrons( martin''s?)
42824Of what house be ye by your father kin?
42824One askede hym onys resun why He hadde delyte in mynstralsy?
42824Or did the one pine away and die like a flower in a dungeon, and the other beat itself to death against the bars of its self- made cage?
42824Out of the gospel he the wordes caught, And this figure he added yet thereto, That if gold rusté what should iren do?
42824Presently the joint of a man''s finger is exhibited to us, the largest of three; I kiss it; and then I ask whose relics were these?
42824Said Sir Tristram,''Yonder lieth a fair knight, what is best to do?''
42824Saide this wife;''how fare ye heartily?''
42824Silly[118] old man, that lives in hidden cell, Bidding his beades all day for his trespas, Tidings of war and worldly trouble tell?
42824Sir Tor asks the dwarf who is his guide,"''Know ye any lodging?''
42824The Apostle?
42824The Queen has just arrived at the gate of the city; through the open door may be seen a bishop(?
42824The frere answered,''O Thomas, dost thou so?
42824The king asked,"Thou harper, how durst thou be so bold to sing this song before me?"
42824The question,"What do you bring us?"
42824These folk prayed[207] hym first fro whence he came?
42824Upon which the monks said,''What didst thou ask of the Lord?''
42824Was it some frail woman, with all the affections of her heart and the hopes of her earthly life shattered, who sought the refuge of this living tomb?
42824What need have you diverse friars to seche?
42824What needeth him that hath a perfect leech[50] To seeken other leches in the town?
42824What wonder is?
42824When, in our endeavour to realise the life of these secular clergymen of the Middle Ages, we come to inquire, What sort of houses did they live in?
42824Whether shall I call you my Lord Dan John, Or Dan Thomas, or elles Dan Albon?
42824Who has not, at some time, been deeply impressed by the solemn stillness, the holy calm, of an empty church?
42824Why should he study, and make himselven wood, Upon a book in cloister alway to pore, Or swinkin with his handis, and labour, As Austin bid?
42824Yet, after all, why should the merchant be"a rather common- looking man,"and the alderman a"portly citizen"?
42824[ 146] In the"Ancren Riewle,"p. 129, we read,"Who can with more facility commit sin than the false recluse?"
42824[ 215] Surely he should have excepted St. Thomas''s shrine?
42824[ 43] The good man also said he had not seen the friar"this fourteen nights:"--Did a limitour go round once a fortnight?
42824a Carthusian); another in a black cloak and hood over a white frock(?
42824a hermit); another in a white scapular and hood(?
42824asks the Ploughman--"''Kondest thou aught a cor- saint[209] that men calle Truthe?
42824how were these furnished?
42824or was it some enthusiast, with the over- excited religious sensibility, of which we have instances enough in these days?
42824was it some man of strong passions, wild and fierce in his crimes, as wild and fierce in his penitence?
42824what kind of men were they?
42824what manner of world is this?
42824what sort of life did their occupants lead?
42824where is she?''
42824who may trust this world?''
46455And would you like, then, to die with me?
46455God, thou son of St. Mary--is that not a standing invocation among the knights?
46455How would you enjoy being a canon?
46455Let the baron command preparatory torture?
46455Tonsure or the scaffold?
46455Very dear lady,he gasps,"what will you do when I die?
46455Why such trouble?
46455Will you have Sire Conon, the nephew of your late lord, as your present undoubted baron and suzerain?
46455A quiet place, but at night, with several score of brethren all snoring together, what repose is left for the stranger?
46455After a round of fêtes, tournaments, and forays, many a young knight has suddenly turned from them all, announced to his companions:"What profit?
46455All this means a chaffering, chattering, and ofttimes a quarreling, which makes one ask,"Have the days of the Tower of Babel returned?"
46455And even Conon, once when hard beset, had exclaimed, like a certain crusading lord:"What king, O Lord, ever deserted thus his men?
46455And what, in one sense, is the intense worship of the Virgin but a sign that woman is extraordinarily venerated and very powerful?
46455Another anecdote is how a knight answered, on being asked,"What will be your chief joy in paradise?"
46455Are not so many of them like the peasant described in the epic"Garin"?
46455Are their packs filled with iron, with lances, with swords?
46455Are they not reared around a castle, which is a great barrack, and where the talk is ever of feuds and forays, horses, lances, and armor?
46455Are they not sprung themselves from a domineering stock?
46455Assuredly, the Scripture warns us,"Take no thought saying...''Wherewithal shall we be clothed?''"
46455At the ceremony itself the great question is,"How will the wedding ring slip on?"
46455But dare one really be too critical?
46455But does not Heaven favor the young and brave?
46455But how locate the dozen other counts and barons who, with their dames, have honored the bridal?
46455But what are soups compared with meat pies?
46455But what is monk''s or jongleur''s lore compared with the true business of a born cavalier?
46455But what peasant has not as many thereof as he has hairs in his head?
46455But_ cui bono_?
46455By which ought the epoch be judged?
46455Conon demands angrily of Olivier,"Could not you keep back the boy from this folly?"
46455Could the latter, if they wished, dye the cloth which they themselves had woven?
46455Did he leave his last wife to mope about the hall while he spent his months riotously at the king''s court?"
46455Everybody will ask,"Did the groom wear his mantle like a great baron?"
46455From the time a young nobleman is in his cradle his mother will discuss with his father,"Will he make the''leap''when he is knighted?"
46455He foolishly tried to cancel a charter granted the city, and boasted:"What can you expect these people to do by their commotions?
46455If it would cost dearly to win the bailey, what would it not cost to storm the castle proper?
46455If this is true of the nobility, what of the toiling peasantry?
46455In what kind of money shall we pay?
46455Is it favorable to your condition, or unfavorable?
46455Is it true he is to receive Petitmur?
46455It is feared these scandals are frequent, but many times, if candidate and seigneur are willing to imperil their souls, what can be done?
46455Many a baron''s son balances in his mind-- which is better, the seigneur''s"cap of presence"or the bishop''s miter?
46455On the other hand, who is ignorant of the manner in which William the Norman inveigled Harold the Anglo- Saxon into taking a great oath of fealty?
46455Ought one to deal with such people?
46455She has never found her master, and who can flatter himself that he knows her?
46455The architect and his employer have practically spent their lives studying"how can a castle be made to hold out as long as possible?"
46455Their question is not"how fast?"
46455This is for the Cathedral; and is God''no one''?"
46455Very deplorable, but what can be done?
46455What greater delight than to defend some tower against their father''s old foe, Foretvert?
46455What is a cavalier without his horse?
46455What more could be said?
46455What right have grand folk to claim the obedience of the lesser, if they can not delight the public gaze by their splendors?
46455What seems clearer than that which Pope Nicholas I wrote A.D. 866?
46455What wonder( considering mortal frailty) that many men who seek the episcopate for temporal advantage often bring their great office into contempt?
46455When the monks remonstrated, the rough answer was:"How is this your business?
46455When, however, two identical relics of the same saint are displayed in France, how are worldly questionings to be silenced?
46455Where is the monastery, church, or even castle without them?
46455Where now is the vassal to follow his banner?
46455Where will I spend eternity?"
46455Who can measure her relief when Conon declared he would not give her to old St. Saturnin?
46455Who truly knows about the hereafter?"
46455Who_ now_ will trust in or fight for thee?"
46455Why, again, should the prisoners complain?
46455Will you not die with me?"
46455Would he offer fair battle in the plain near Cambrai, as we much desired, or would he strive to slip past our army and go straight toward Paris?
46455Would you have sight of them?"
46455[ 116] This is outrageous, but ofttimes money must be had, and what if no Christian will lend?
46455[ 45] The question really is: Has a man been given everything due to others of his own class?
46455[ Sidenote: Futile Peasant Revolts] Do the villeins ever revolt?
46455[ Sidenote: The Jews and Money Lending] Why are such folk permitted in Pontdebois?
46455_ Hé!_ what chance had those villein footmen against_ gentle_ Frenchmen, who all had known horses and lance since they ceased from mother''s milk?
46455but"To what guild does he belong?"
46455but"how well?"
46455or shall I attempt a short_ chanson_ by that other high troubadour, Arnaut de Maruelh?"