 | Ruth Morse, Barry Windeatt - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 296 pages
...his warrior sons, in what we may think of as the man of action's reflection on the world of words: Thanks to Saint Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line.22 NOTES 1 Douglas's political involvement seems to have increased, understandably enough, after... | |
 | Victoria Branden - Humor - 1998 - 300 pages
...righteousness-snobbery. We're not a bunch of loose-living immoral debauchees like the degenerate Europeans. Thanks to Saint Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line. — Sir Walter Scott. As we've seen, acquiring literacy was crucial to women, and not only snobwise.... | |
 | Mike Sanders - Feminism - 2001 - 264 pages
...knight so foul a deed! At first in heart it liked me ill. When the king praised his clerkly skill. Thanks to Saint Bothan, son of mine. Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line: So swore I, and so swear 1 still, Let my boy bishop fret his fill." The days are gone by when ignorance... | |
 | 1888 - 592 pages
...in God, Mayster Gawin Douglas, ' Bishop of Dunkeld ' — of whom Archibald ' Bell the Cat ' says, ' Thanks to Saint Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line ' — Caxton's 'Boke yf Eneydos' is no more like Virgil 'than ' the Devill and Sanct Austyn.' The bishop... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1921 - 316 pages
...knight so foul a deed ! At first in heart it liked me ill, 15 When the King praised his clerkly skill. Thanks to Saint Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line : So swore I, and I swear it still, Let my boy-bishop fret his fill — 20 Saint Mary mend my fiery... | |
 | A. Hamilton Thompson - History - 2019 - 246 pages
...knight so foul a deed ! At first in heart it lik'd me ill, When the King prais'd his clerkly skill. 8o Thanks to Saint Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line: So swore I, and I swear it still, Let my boy-bishop fret his fill. — Saint Mary mend my fiery mood... | |
 | Scottish History Society - Scotland - 1889 - 582 pages
...Angus, otherwise known as ' Bell-the-Cat,' no injustice when he represented him as exclaiming : — ' Thanks to Saint Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a line.' — Marmion, Canto vi. 15. In those days great numbers were unable even to read, and many of wliom... | |
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Though most unworthy of the name. A letter forged ! Saint Jude to speed ! Did ever knight so foul a deed ! At first in heart it liked me ill, When the king praised his clerkly skill. Thanks to Saint Bothan, son of mine, Save Gawain, ne'er could pen a... 
