booteth

“Come, O my son, let us lock up the shop and hie us home, for it booteth not to sell and buy this day; and may Almighty Allah requite thy mother that which she hath done with us, for she was the cause of all this!”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Then rose a man of tattered appearance and said, O folk, beware of a truth which bringeth unweal, for there is no harm in a lie bringing weal,352 and in time of need no choice we heed: speech booteth not in the absence of good qualities even as silence hurteth not in the presence of good.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Its worth is trifling, some five hundred dinars; so it booteth not to fashion it over again.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

What booteth it, King Etzel, that we have given him whatso he would?

The Nibelungenlied 2007

'Till then it booteth little to move towards a divorce; but if that day should come, then our Lord Privy Seal must bethink himself.

Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

Far better booteth it, for sooth, to seize for thyself the meed of honour of every man through the wide host of the

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

When he was called, Essex rudely cried: 'What booteth it to swear this fox!'

Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography 1879

Which, though you think they have done well, it booteth not at all.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

It booteth not that I began with so good preparation;

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

And do thou say, 'It booteth not to break it and fashion it anew.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855