In common ways, with common men, He served his race and time As well as if his clerkly pen Had never danced to rhyme.
This most clerkly device will have saved the subsequent transcribers much trouble of roll-searching and a world of confusion in their actual work.
No such miracle of clerkly and executive capacity has been worked in England since.
The dead were expeditiously buried in trenches; vacancies among the clergy were promptly filled; the manor courts met and transacted business, and had their records engrossed for the most part in the usual clerkly style.
There are two other plague-bills extant, for August, 1535, written out in a more clerkly fashion, and bearing the marks of greater experience.
Old servants are proverbial for their long memories,' the clerkly visitor went on.
As he spoke Purvis appeared at the top of the little gangway, dressed in his clerkly suit and stiff hat.
But she did wonder a little if this whole business of marriages and marriage ceremonies and legal bonds which any clerkly pastor can gild with religiosity was so sacred as she had been informed in Panama.
She ordered my message written out, so she has some clerkly learning.
Promise me a clerkly writing to the Bird Daughter's men, or to your own men, ordering that I be paid ten English pounds, and it is done.
Red Murrough lost no time in getting his "clerkly writing," luckily for himself.
Rosamund took it and read what was written, hurriedly but in a clerkly hand, and in the French tongue.
Since then, I have wandered a fugitive and an outcast, craving scant hospitality of my brother's vassals, and solacing my weary hours with clerkly studies.
By our Lady, thou hast a better alchemy than thy clerkly brother, the Castilian monarch, for his science finds only gold in everything, while thy diviner art finds good in all, and loyalty in outlaws.
Observe what joy I have in this clerkly boy whose skilled hand mocks Master Caxton's types in the Low Countries--but of that thou knowest nothing.
But what I looked not for was this clerkly hand, this deft scrolling of lines and letters.
Sholto MacKim, the son of Malise the Smith, testifies to these things in his own clerkly script.
He hath good clerkly Latin also, being skilled in the humanities, as I have heard proven with mine own ears.
Thy brother Laurence is in the way ofclerkly advancement on account of that same sweetly innocent regard, which he hath in even greater perfection.
But since I was wrong I bid you get back to the monk's chapter house, to clerkly copies and childish toys.
The clerkly youth who seemed in authority in the absence of the bailiff was much in doubt as to the wisdom of permitting any such entry, and, indeed, at first refused.
The clerkly knave who brought Lord Carleton's message shrunk and shriveled before it like a leaf too near the fire.
Thomas received a clerkly education from the Canons of Merton, and showed such rare ability that his whole family deemed him destined for great things.
On it was inscribed in a babu's clerkly hand: "Do come and talk to Ma Chit.
Janice put away the envelope, directed in the sloping, clerkly hand, and sighed.
In it was a letter which she knew must be from her father, although the outer envelope was addressed in the same precise, clerkly hand which she associated with the mysterious Juan Dicampa.
Though inscribed with clerkly formality, it contained more pet forms than any other record I have yet seen; and this alone must stamp it as a most important document.
The Hundred Rolls contain a "Cussot Colling"--a rare place to find one of these diminutives, for they are set down with great clerkly formality.
He submits, and seated at the base of the wall waits patiently, with the resignation of his clerkly calling, as if in a waiting-room.
While waiting the coming of young Aaron, Colonel Arnold enters into conversation with his clerkly visitor.
Perceiving Colonel Arnold gazing in curious wonder at his clerkly frock, young Aaron explains.
Surely if it had been left to those that spent their lives in the midst of the fray, it had never been done--not alone from lack of time, but from lack of clerkly knowledge as well.
Annys could scarce restrain a smile at the ingenuity of the cook, who certainly might well have shone in a clerkly career, so well did he know how to obey the letter and ignore the spirit.
Now it was that I gave silent thanks, because of what had seemed to me a hardship when my mother forced me to spend so many hours each day in learning to use a quill, until I was able to write a clerkly hand.
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