There was a doctour on a tyme, whiche desired a fouler, that went to catche byrdes with an owle, that he might go with hym.
This doctourthought that the vnderstandynge, and nat the noyse, hadde feared awaye the byrdes.
Of the doctour that sayd, in Erasmus workes were heresies.
Of thedoctour that desyred to go with a fouler to catche byrdes.
Of the doctour that went with the fouler to catche byrdes.
Whan the byrder was in agayn, and many byrdes were alyghted, mayster doctoursaid in latyn: aves permultæ adsunt; wherwith the byrdes flewe away.
Doctour Haruey with certaine most profitable Mathematicall deuises of his own inuention.
The doughtieste doctour And devinour of the Trinitee Was Austyn the olde, And heighest of the foure, Seide thus in a sermon, I seigh it writen ones: Ecce ipsi idiotae vi rapiunt coelum, ubi nos sapientes in inferno mergimur.
Pacience was proud Of that propre service, And made hym murthe with his mete; Ac I mornede evere, 8150 For this doctouron the heighe dees Drank wyn so faste.
And thanne is tyme to take, And to appose this doctour 8230 Of Do-wel and Do-bet, And if Do-wel be any penaunce.
And you would haue said if you had seen the Doctour wyth his hode hanging at one side, that he had been out of his wittes.
Yf ther be made any labour for Doctour Alyn to be Justice of the Peas, I pray you for Gods sake let it be lettyd yf ye may, for he wyll take to moch upon hym yf he werr.
Mastres, my Lady sent to Cawnbrygg for a doctour of fesyk.
Sire Doctour of Phisyk, I preye yow, Telle us a tale of som honest matere.
The holy appostle and doctour of the peple saynt Poule sayth in his epystle.
Th[=e]ne emonge whom there was an excellent doctour of dyuynyte in the royame of fraunce of the ordre of thospytal of Saynt Johns of Jherusalem which entended the fame and hath made a book of the chesse moralysed.
The purblinde Doctourput on his spectacles and lookt vppon mee: and when he had throughly viewd my face, he caused mee to bee stript naked, to feele and grope whether each lim were sound, and my skin not infected.
But first Ile tel you what betided me after I was brought to Doctour Zacharies.
Let mee see him quoth Doctour Zacharie, and I will giue you as much as another.
Yet by the helpe of a precious oile, Doctour Russel applyed, ere night his tormenting paine was so wel asswaged that he eate the fish to his supper.
Or doctour diuyne or other Graduate Be this thy Excuse to content theyr mynde withal My speche is rude my termes comon and rural And I for rude peple moche more conuenient.
The same yeare died Henrie Newarke archbishop of Yorke, and Thomas Corbridge a doctour in diuinitie succeeded him.
About the same time, Thomas Colebrugh or Corbridge archbishop of Yorke departed this life, and one William Greenefield doctour of both the lawes succeeded him.
Of another William Sclater I find two notices in Miscellanies of Divinitie divided into three Books, by Edvvard Kellet, Doctour of Divinitie, and one of the Canons of the Cathedrall Church of Exon, fol.
At table my antagonist, to bring the question on foot amangs his awn condisciples, began that I was becum an heretik, and the doctour spering how, ansuered that I denyed quho to be spelled with a w, but with qu.
After manie conflictes (for we ofte encountered), we met be chance, in the citie of Baeth, with a Doctour of divinitie of both our acquentance.
And Elde auntred hym on lyf, And at the laste he hitte A phisicien with a furred hood, That he fel in a palsie, And there dyed that doctour Er thre dayes after.
So Chaucer says of his Doctour of Phisik: aEurooeFor gold in phisik is a cordial, Therefore he lovede gold in special.
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