Robert Henryson Quotes

• Best thing in eird,I say for me, Is merry hart with small possessioun.

  Robert Henryson

  Hart, Best Things, Merry

  c.1470 Moral Fables,'The Two Mice', l.387-8.

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• Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.

  Robert Henryson

  War, Suffering, May

  c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, l.561-4.

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• The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

  Robert Henryson

  Men, May, He Man

  c.1460 'Robene and Makeyne', l.91-2.

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• For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.

  Robert Henryson

  Kings, Age, Lord

  c.1460 'The Praise of Age', l.5-9.

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• The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch,Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill.Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch,And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.

  Robert Henryson

  Doctrine, Fruit, Hard

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• In breif Sermone ane pregnant sentence wryte.

  Robert Henryson

  Sentences, Pregnant

  Robert Henryson (1824). “Robene and Makyne: And The Testament of Cresseid”

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• Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.

  Robert Henryson

  Bows, Study, Bent

  c.1470 Moral Fables, prologue, l.21-5.

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• Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.

  Robert Henryson

  Wind, Flour, Honour

  c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, stanza 65.

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