longen

The first sentence, by the way, is 18 lines long, so that by the time you get to "Thanne longen folk to goon on pigrimages," you're ready for a breath and a new start.

Archive 2008-06-01 Bardiac 2008

Away back in Chaucer's day folk were "longen to gon on pilgrimages," and it does not matter in the least what the ways and means may be, the motive is ever the same: a change of scene.

The Automobilist Abroad

The drought of March hath pierced to the root, "when the soft wind" with his sweet breath inspired hath in every holt and heath the tender crops "; when the little birds make new songs, then" longen folk to go on pilgrimages, and palmers for to seeken strange lands, and especially from every shire's end of

English Literature for Boys and Girls

We presume Mr Horne believes he has authority for applying "so pricketh hem nature in hire corages" to the folks that "longen to go on pilgrimages" -- and not to the "smalè foulès."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

Esau ran for to meet with his brother, and embraced him, straining his neck, and weeping kissed him, and he looked forth and saw the women and their children, and said: What been these and to whom longen they?

The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

Nothing so stirs the blood in spring, when it comes up out of the tropical latitude; it makes men "longen to gon on pilgrimages."

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

In this yere kyng Edward and kyng Phillip of Fraunce were sworne to kepe pees; and kyng Edward schulde have in pees, withoute homage doyng, alle the londes of Guyon, Angeoy, and Normandye, and othere that longen to hym be heritage of olde tyme.

A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum Anonymous 1823

Now that spring is here again, I can't help thinking of the famous words of Geoffrey Chaucer during the Middle Ages: "than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages."

Corsicana Daily Sun, Corsicana, Texas Homepage By Bob Belcher 2010

Now that spring is here again, I can't help thinking of the famous words of Geoffrey Chaucer during the Middle Ages: "than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages."

Corsicana Daily Sun, Corsicana, Texas Homepage By Bob Belcher 2010