He whose harte and tonge Runne one selfe course shall seldome fynde the way To a preferrment.
As much As you of charytie if your tonge bee A faithfull servant to your mynde.
Onlye your maiestye, From strengthe of whose imbrace not anye tonge Had power to drawe her.
A courtier might have spared it And as he is a courtier beene excusd Thoughe it were false; for he whose tonge and harte Runne one selfe course shall seldome find the way To a preferment.
Here in 1508 was finished 'The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde translated out of Laten, Frenche, and Doche into Englysshe tonge by Alexander Barclay, Preste, and at that time chaplen in the sayd College.
Also who was hier in philosophie To Aristotle in our tonge but thou?
By Julyus Cesar thy Tour founded of old May be the hous of Mars victoryall, Whose artillary with tonge may not be told: London, thou art the flour of Cities all.
The sorwe that this Alla, night and day, Maketh for his wyf and for his child also, (800) Ther is no tonge that it telle may.
Under his tonge a trewe love he beer, For ther-by wende he to ben gracious.
Al to simple is my tonge to pronounce, As ministre of my wit, the doublenesse 1300 Of this chanoun, rote of al cursednesse.
Myn hondes and my tonge goon so yerne, (70) That it is Ioye to see my bisinesse.
He yaf me al the brydel in myn hond To han the governance of hous and lond, And of histonge and of his hond also, 815 And made him brenne his book anon right tho.
Bodily manslaughtre is, whan thow sleest him with thy tonge in other manere; as whan thou comandest to sleen a man, or elles yevest him conseil to sleen a man.
The blisse which that is bitwixe hem tweye 1340 Ther may no tonge telle, or herte thinke.
Traitour,' quod he, 'with tonge of scorpioun, Thou hast me broght to my confusioun!
Yet were it bet my tonge for to stille 230 Than seye a sooth that were ayeins your wille.
For mannes heed imaginen ne can, 1695 Ne entendement considere, ne tonge telle The cruel peynes of this sorwful man, That passen every torment doun in helle.
For-why to every lovere I me excuse, That of no sentement I this endyte, But out of Latin in my tongeit wryte.
But how this cas doth Troilus moleste, 880 That may non erthely mannes tonge seye; For verray wo his wit is al aweye.
Oon shuld nat love by his hertes credence But he were sure to kepe it secretly; For avauntour is of no reverence Whan that his tonge is his most enemy.
Is it resoun, though oon his tonge distayne With cursed speche, to do him-self a shame, That such refuse shuld wrongfully remayne 755 Upon the good, renommed in their fame?
If it were so, my wil or myn entent 45 Constrayned were a joyful thing to wryte, Myn pen coud never have knowlege what it ment; To speke therof my tonge hath no delyte.
For he him-selve her ne winne may, He speketh her repreef and vileinye, 115 As mannes blabbing tonge is wont alway.
The blisse which that is bitwixe hem tweye Ther may no tonge telle, or herte thinke.
He has rallied with the whole of his cavalry on the heath near Tonge Castle," replied Buckingham.
Of what generacyon thou were notonge can tell, Whyther of Chayme, or Syschemell,[377] Or else sent vs frome the deuyll of hell.
I (Roberte Copland) have me applied, moiening the helpe of god, to reduce and translate it into our maternal and vulgare english tonge after the capacite and rudenesse of my weke entendement.
Th]are es na tongein erth may tell of lufe [th]e swetnesse.
In it hath he placed the eye to see, the eare to hear, and the tonge to speake, which offices are apointed to none other membre of the bodie.
For who wolde not iudge that bodie to be a monstre, where there was no head eminent aboue the rest, but that the eyes were in the handes, the tonge and mouth beneth in the belie, and the eares in the feet.
Who that refrayneth his tonge he shalbe blessyd in all dedes &c.
After complyne kepe your tonge & take you to prayer & contemplacion.
For it is moche bet[ter] one to kepe his tonge than to speke.
Reson, 'Ich rede the, Rewele thi tonge evere; And er thow lacke eny lyf, Loke ho is to preise.
The seventhe is welle of wisedom, And fewe wordes sheweth; Therfore lordes alloweth hym litel, Or listneth to his reson, For he tempreth the tonge to trutheward, And no tresor coveiteth Sapientiae temperatrix.
That night he was lodged in Whitehall, in company with Tonge and Oates; and next morning appeared before the House of Lords, when it was evident his memory had wonderfully improved since the previous day.
Tonge was resolved this should be done in a manner best calculated to heighten the effect of their narrative; at the same time he was careful to guard the fact that he and Oates had an intimate knowledge of each other.
Tonge departed this life in 1680, unbenefited by the monstrous plot he had so skilfully devised; and in the same year Bedlow was carried to the grave after an illness of four days.
Tonge was "a man of letters, and had a prolific head filled with all the Romish plots and conspiracies since the reformation.
On this Tonge begged it might be kept safe and secret, "lest the full discovery should otherwise be prevented and his life endangered.
In obedience to this command, Tonge waited on his lordship at the appointed time, and by the character of his replies helped to develop his story of the plot.
One day, whilst the town was in this state of consternation, Tonge sent for Dr.
When asked if the document he had given his majesty was the original of the deponent, Tonge admitted it was in his own handwriting.
The historian says he found Tonge "so lifted up that he seemed to have lost the little sense he had.
Accordingly, on the 28th of the month, Tonge and Oates were summoned before it, when the latter, making many additions to his narrative, solemnly affirmed its truth.
About the 106th hour, a septum begins to make its appearance in the truncus arteriosus in the form of a longitudinal fold, which according to Tonge (No.
The Sandwich ducking-stool bore the motto: "Of members ye tonge is worst or beste An yll tonge oft doth breede unreste.
A demonstration how the Latine tonge may be learn't'; Lond.
Tonge and Mr. Kirby and others sat on a seat behind him.
Tonge to high positions in the Church, once more that Exclusion Bill of theirs came forward.
Tonge had been sent for and soundly rated, and made to produce his informant, and the matter sifted, I believe we should have heard no more of it.
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