English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages: (xivth Century)

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T. F. Unwin, 1889 - 451 עמודים
Inspite of bad roads and worse vehicles, England was filled with peasants, minstrels, jugglers, merchants, pedlars, outlaws, and peasants out of bond, preachers, friars, pardoners, and pilgrims--all on the move!

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עמוד 251 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
עמוד 265 - Because that many valiant beggars, as long as they may live of begging, do refuse to labor, giving themselves to idleness and vice, and sometimes to theft and other abominations...
עמוד 185 - O, health! health! the blessing of the rich! the riches of the poor! who can buy thee at too dear a rate, since there is no enjoying this world without thee?
עמוד 149 - Church, nor of the land, nor to right, nor justice, but refusing and setting apart all process of the law, do ride in great routs in divers parts of England, and take possession and set them in divers manors, lands, and other possessions of their own authority, and hold the same long with such force, doing many manner apparelments of war ; and in some places do ravish women and damsels, and bring them into strange countries, where please them ; and in some places lying in await with such routs do...
עמוד 288 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte.
עמוד 272 - ... to tell or publish any false news or tales, whereby discord, or occasion of discord, or slander may grow between the king and his people, or the great men of the realm...
עמוד 161 - King: and that at such a place I will diligently seek for passage, and that I will tarry there but one flood and ebb, if I can have passage ; and unless I can have it in such...
עמוד 281 - ... which persons do also preach divers matters of slander, to engender discord and dissension betwixt divers estates of the said realm, as well spiritual as temporal, in exciting of the people, to the great peril of all the realm...
עמוד 137 - Instede of coyne and monny, Some brynge her a conny, And some a pot with honny, Some a salt, and some a spone, Some their hose, some theyr shone.
עמוד 169 - ... they that keep the town shall follow with hue and cry with all the town, and the towns near; and so hue and cry shall be made from town to town, until they be taken and delivered to the sheriff.

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