Life in the Medieval University

ISBN: E100000020958 出版年：2007 页码： Robert Sangster Project Gutenberg

" A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe y-go As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake; But loked hoI we, and therto soberly_ Ful thredbar was his overest courtepy, For he had geten him yet no benefyce, Ne was so worldly for to have offyce_ For him was lever have at his beddes heed Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophye, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautl'ye_ But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre; But al that he might of his freendes hente, On bokes and on lerninge he it spente, And bisily gan for the soules preye Of hem that yaf him wherwith to scoleye, Of studie took he most cure and most hede, Noght 0 word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche. And gladly wolde he Ierne, and gladly teche."