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And it is full needful and speedful to know his quaintise, and not for to unknow his doleful deceits.— The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521
The king, then none other n'as, bid him some quaintise— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
And Merlin for his quaintise thither went also.— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
And whilk of them couth [3] most quaintise;— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
And yet mist of were Me would ween that in this landë no stone to wonke n'ere Sir king,' quoth Merlin, 'ne make nought an idle such laughing For it n'is an idle nought that I tell this tiding For in the farrest stude of Afric giants whilë fet [9 These stones for medicine and in Ireland them set While they wonenden in Ireland to make their bathë's there There under for to bathë when they sick were For they would the stonës wash and therein bathe ywis For is no stone there among that of great virtue n'is The king and his counsel rode the stones for to fet And with great power of battle if any more them let Uther, the kingë's brother, that Ambrose hett[10] also In another namë ychosë was thereto And fifteen thousand men, this deedë for to do And Merlin for his quaintise thither went also 1] If I should say any thing out of wantonness or vanity, the spirit which teaches me would immediately leave me.— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
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