monke

• “If we consider taking big risks and make big money a sort of posturing to gain alpha male status, then it logically follows that if we were to regulate the system so that the monke – trader could not lose big without losing big personally, then a lot of traders would end up with less testosterone than Nancy Pelosi, and the contest would be over for them.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Endgame

• “Hereupon the earle sent a knight, the bishop a clearke, the Abbot a monke vnto Maniches the Emperour of Constantinople, with the letters and gifts of their King.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Second, and after them of John Scogan and John Lydgate, monke of”

  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

• “After whom followed _Iohn Lydgate_ the monke of Bury, & that nameles, who wrote the _Satyre_ called Piers Plowman, next him followed _Harding_ the Chronicler, then in king _Henry_ th'eight times”

  The Arte of English Poesie

• “Malchus was a monke, and sometime vnder Walkhelme bishop of”

  Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus

• “Dommicanus; Thomas Palmer, warden of the Blacke friers within the citie of London; Boston of Burie, a monke of the abbeie of Burie in Suffolke, wrote a catalog of all the writers of the church, and other treatises.”

  Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV

• “Moreouer, Hugh Legat borne in Hertfordshire, and a monke of saint”

  Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV

• “Holbecke, a monke of Ramsie, well séene in the Hebrue toong, and wrote thereof a dictionarie; Iohn Colton, archbishop of Ardmach; Iohn Marrie, so called of a village in Yorkeshire where he was borne, a Carmelite of”

  Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV

• “As for myself, I have sometimes read them by the blaze of my cheerful hearth, or among the ruins of some old monastic abbey, [250] till in imagination I beheld the events which they attempt to record, and could almost hear the voice of the "_goode olde monke_" as he relates the deeds of some holy man -- in language so natural and idiomatic are they written.”

  Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

• “[512] Turned later into English verse by Lydgate, to be read as a supplementary Tale of Canterbury: "Here begynneth the sege of Thebes, ful lamentably told by Johnn Lidgate monke of Bury, annexynge it to ye tallys of Canterbury," MS. Royal 18 D ii. in the British Museum.”

  A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance

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