...smiling face, and was always ready to join in a laugh although maybe it was against himself, for — " All be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. " So much for the personnel of our society Our meetings were held weekly and we had an elaborate...

...This is to seyn, she may nat now nan bothe, Al be ye never so jalouse ne so wrothe. (I-1837/40) But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre; (I-297/8) Depeynted was the slaughtre of Julius, Of grete Nero, and of Antonius, Al be that...

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...heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed Of Aristotle and his philosophic, Than robes riche.... But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. Those words are a delightful description of the ideal scholar, whose most cherished possessions...

...or reed, 295 Of Aristotle and his philosophie Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie. But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre; But al that he myghte of his freendes hente, 300 On bookes and on lernynge he it spente, And...

...discrepancy that Chaucer alludes to in the portrait of the Clerk of Oxenford in the General Prologue: "But al be that he was a philosophre, / Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre" (ll. 297-98). Ill POSERS AND IMPOSTORS Sixteenth-Century Alchemical Satire "[John Dee] being...

...blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie: But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. GEOFFREY CHAUCER, (1340-1400) British poet. The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue," I. 293-8...

...Authors and Contributors Nowher so bisy a man as he ther n'as, And yet he semed bisier than he was. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. (Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), English poet. The Canterbury Tales} The Authors Forrest W. Howard...

...alchemists, who hoped to turn baser metals into gold. A clerk ther was of Oxenford also . . . But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. -Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales gultur: vulture, and other creatures. Skr, gaur: wild ox. gayal;...

...Thomas Moore, 42) We also find a variant of the conjunctival phrase without the pronoun it: (12) But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. (HC (c1387-95), Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue, 28.C1) 'But although he was a philosopher,...