 | David R. Shore - Clout, Colin (Fictitious character) - 1985 - 200 pages
...pastoral terms. The fable is, after all, a pastoral poem. It was taught to a shepherd by a shepherd: a tale of truth, Which I cond of Tityrus in my youth, Keeping his sheepe on the nils of Kent. (91-3) consequences that can result when youth is disrespectful... | |
 | Richard Halpern - Capitalism and literature - 1991 - 340 pages
...by telling an Aesopian fable about an aged oak and a "bragging brere." Thenot describes his fable as a tale of truth, Which I cond of Tityrus in my youth, Keeping his sheepe on the hils of Kent. (91-93) EK informs us that "Tityrus" is Chaucer, and thereby... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...cannot) agree by themselves, they both equally value a third-party — Tityrus: But shall I tel thee a tale of truth. Which I cond of Tityrus in my youth, Keeping his sheepe on the hils of Kent? CUDDIE. To nought more Thenot, my mind is bent, Then to heare... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Chivalry in literature - 2001 - 320 pages
...pervenit TITYRUS oras. Maxfus, v. 34. And the tale of the Oak and Brier, in the Eclogue of Februarie, is more peculiarly modelled after Chaucer's manner,...Chaucer. That Colin hight which well could pipe and ling, For he of TITYR.US his fong did lere. In the Paflorah he likewife appears to have attempted an... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1950 - 454 pages
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 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 pages
...273, 289. Globe edn., ed. R Morris, pp. 449, 464, 484, 486.) [foi. IT 6] Thenot. But shall I tel thee a tale of truth, Which I cond of Tityrus in my youth Keeping his sheepe on the hills of Kent [foL 24] The God of shephe*rds Tityrus is dead, Who taught... | |
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But shall I tel thee a tale of truth, Which I cond of Tityrus in my youth, Keeping his sheepe on the hils of Kent? 
