Alle

Famous quotes containing the word alle:

    An haberdasshere and a carpenter,
    A webbe, a dyere, and a tapycer,
    And they were clothed alle in o lyveree
    Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    A fair feeld ful of folk fand I there-betwene,
    Of alle maner of men, the mene and the riche,
    Worching and wandringe as the world asketh.
    Some putte hem to plow, playede ful selde,
    In setting and sowing swunke ful harde,
    Wonne that these wastours with glotonye destroyeth.
    William Langland (1330–1400)

    From alle wymmen mi love is lent
    And lyht on Alysoun.
    —Unknown. Alison. . .

    Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)