10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOUNTENAUNCE»
Discover the use of
mountenaunce in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mountenaunce and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The poetical works ¬of ¬John ¬Skelton: in 2 volumes
The mountenaunce of two houres] “ M owntenaunce. Quantitas. Estimate.
mensura.” Prompt. Parv. ed. 1499. “ And largely the mountenaunce of an houre
They gonne on it to reden and to poure.” Chaucer's Troil. and Cres., B. ii. fol. 157.
John Skelton, Alexander Dyce, 1843
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Ancient Engleish Metrical Romanceës: Selected and Publish'd ...
Mountance, Mountawnse, Mountenaunce (III,165), amounushace zff time it would
tahe to wall: or ride. Chaucer has, lihewzse, mountance; but, in Syr T ryamour, it
is mountenaunce : " He had not ryden but a whyle, Not the mountenaunce os a ...
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THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN SKELTON
There goth many a lye Of the Duke of Albany, That of shulde go his hede, And
brought in quycke or dede, And all Scotlande owers The mountenaunce of two
houres. But, as some men sayne, I drede of some false trayne seo Subtelly
wrought ...
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Le bone Florence of Rome. The Erle of Tolous. The squyer of ...
Moni falde, I, 26, manyfold. Mornyng, mourning. Mote, might, may. Mote, I, 140,
moot, contend. Mountance, Mountawnse, Mountenaunce (III, 1 65), amount,
shace of time it would tahe to walh or ride. Chaucer has, Iihewz/E, mountance;
but, ...
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ancients engleish metrical romancees
Mountance, Mountawnse, Mountenaunce (111,165), amount, space os time it
would tahe to walh or ride, Chaucer has, lihewise, mountance ; but, in Syr
Tryamour, it is mountenaunce : '' He had not ryden but a whyle, Not the
mountenaunce os ...
6
Faerie queene. book III-V
JV'0t past the mountenaunce qf a shott.] Not farther than the flight of an arrow. XX.
9.— Their purpose they did plott.] They proposed to execute their plan. (3?? And
stoutly came unto the Castle gate, Whereas no. 394 THE FAERIE QUEENE.
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard, 1842
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Faerie queene. book III
This said, they both a furlongs mountenaunce 5 Retird their steeds, to ronne in
even race : But Braggadochio with his bloody launce Once having turnd, no more
returnd his face, But lefte his Love to losse, and fled himselfe apace. XIX.
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard, Philip Masterman, 1845
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The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd
She gathered up and did about him drefle, And his forwandred steed unto him
gott : So forth they bothy fere make their progresse, And march, not past the
mountenaunce of a shott, Till they arriv'd whereas their purpose they did plott. XXI
.
Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd, 1805
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The poetical works of Edmund Spenser
Not past the mountenaunce of a shott.] Not farther than the flight of an arrow. XX.
9. — Their purpose they did plott.] They proposed to execute their plan. i .Imatr,
alarm. * Dempt, deemed. * Smouldry, suffocating. 7 394 THE FAERIE QUEENE.
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard, Philip Masterman, 1853
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The Book Containing the Treatises of Hawking, Hunting, ...
The word mountenaunce or mountance, in the third stanza, signifies the distance
of one place to another ; it is used by Chaucer and Spencer. " Ne set I not the
mountance of a tare." Canterbury Tales, 1572. " Not but the mountance of a corne
...
Juliana Berners, Joseph Haslewood, 1801
