Glad povert is an honest thing, certeyn; This wol Senek and othere clerkes seyn.
Were it not bet at ones for to dye Than ever-more in langour thus to drye?
Except in these brief periods of mysterious excitement her ways were girlish; and there was always a langour about her, quite incompatible with a masculine system in a state of health.
This was a bodily langourin which her mind did not sympathise.
I perceived now something of langour and exhaustion stealing over her, and hastened to bid her good night.
Her joints unhinged in palsiedlangour play, As ice-flakes part beneath the noontide ray; The gale howls doleful through the blocks and shrouds, And big rain pours a deluge from the clouds.
But not the pomp that royalty displays, Nor all the imperial pride of lofty Troy, Nor Virtue's triumph of immortal praise Could rouse the langour of the lingering boy.
In langour and in torment furious Two yeer and more lay wrecche Aurelius, Er any foot he mighte on erthe goon; Ne confort in this tyme hadde he noon, Save of his brother, which that was a clerk; 1105 He knew of al this wo and al this werk.
Of the erl Hugelyn of Pyse the langour Ther may no tonge telle for pitee; But litel out of Pyse stant a tour, In whiche tour in prisoun put was he, 3600 And with him been his litel children three.
His eme wist weyle that he the squier slew; For dreid thar of in gret langour he grew.
But futurity has still its prospects; there is yet happiness in reserve, which, if we transfer our attention to it, will support us in the pains of disease, and the langour of decay.
Equally significant is the langour that attacks people when they are following their daily avocations.
And with this there is a feeling of langour and irritability, and a difficulty in doing work efficiently.
Thairfoir go hens in haist, My langour to lament, Do nocht my body waist, Quhilk nevir did consent.
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