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John Lydgate
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“All is not golde that outward shewith bright.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A wikked tonge wol alway deme amis.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who lesethe his fredam, in faith! he loseth all.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A prowde hert in a beggers brest, A fowle visage with gay temples of atyre, Horrible othes with an holy prist, A justice of juges to selle and lete to hyre, A knave to comande and have an empire, To yeve a jugement of that never was wrought, To preche of pees and sette eche man on fyre, It may wele ryme but it accordith nought.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Woord is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) first seen 1224 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Secrets of Old Philosophers, line 1224.
“For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For he owre englishe gilte with his sawes, Rude and boistous firste be olde dawes, That was ful fer from al perfeccioun And but of litel reputacioun Til that he cam, and thorugh his poetrie, Gan oure tonge firste to magnifie And adourne it with his eloquence: To whom honour, laude and reuerence.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Odyous of olde been comparisonis.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Harde to likke hony out of a marbil stoon, For ther is nouthir licour nor moisture.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Trouthe wil out maugre of fals enuye, Rihtwysnesse may nat ben hid certeyn, As for a tyme it may been ovirleyn.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a story which is nat pleynli told, But constreynyd undir woordes fewe For lak off trouthe, wher thei be newe or olde, Men bi report kan nat the mater shewe.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Off oure language he was the lodesterre.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no rose Spryngyng in gardeyns, but ther be sum thorn.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For princis ofte, of furious hastynesse, Wil cachche a quarrel, causeless in sentence, Ageyn folk absent, thouh ther be non offence.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He as a kyng is crowned in Fairie, With sceptre and suerd, & with his regalie Shal resorte as lord and souereyne, Out of Fairye & regne in Breteyne, And repaire ageyn the Rounde Table.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wheel of Fortune tourneth as a ball; Sodeyn clymbyng axeth a sodeyn fall.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) first seen 1211 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bk. 9, line 1211.
“Also Johnn Lydgate Wryteth after an hyer rate; It is dyffuse to fynde The sentence of his mynde, Yet wryteth he in his kynd, No man that can amend Those maters that he hath pende; Yet some men fynde a faute, And say he wryteth too haute.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Comparable with Chawcer, yet more occupyed in supersticious and odde matters than was requesite in so good a wytte.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William Webbe A Discourse of Englishe Poetry ([1586] 1970) p. 32.
“In images of horror, and in a certain terrible greatness, our author comes far behind Chaucer. Whether they were not suited to the genius or the temper of Lydgate, I do not determine; but it is certain that, though they naturally seemed to present themselves, he has almost generally chose to avoid them: yet is there frequently a stiller kind of majesty both in his thought and expression, which makes one of his principal beauties.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thomas Gray "Some Remarks on the Poems of Lydgate", in The Works of Thomas Gray (1858) vol. 5, pp. 308-9.
“He is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader…Whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of saint Austin or Guy earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or an allegory, he writes with facility.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thomas Warton The History of English Poetry (1774-81) vol. 2, pp. 52-3.
“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”
John Lydgate (1370–1450) said by 1450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joseph Ritson Bibliographia Poetica (1802) p. 87.