Robert Mannyng Quotes

1270–1338 England

Robert Mannyng, (or Robert de Brunne; c. 1275 – c. 1338) was an English chronicler and Gilbertine canon. Mannyng provides a surprising amount of information about himself in his two known works, Handlyng Synne and Mannyng's Chronicle.

England
Historians
Poets

Also known as: Robert de Brunne

Random Robert Mannyng quote

7 quotes

No thyng ys to man so dere
As wommanys love yn gode manere.
A gode womman is mannys blys.

Handlyng Synne (1901)

And thy traveyle shalt thou sone ende,
For to thy long home sone shalt thou wende.

Handlyng Synne (1901)

There ys no solas undyr hevene
Of al that a man may nevene
That shuld a man so mochë glew
As a gode womman that loveth trew.

Handlyng Synne (1901)

He felle dede doun colde as ony stone.

Þe syxtë reyseþ gretë stryfe,
To rauys anouþer mannys wyfe;
For aȝens God hyt ys euyl dede,
And to þe worlde also mochyl drede.
Ȝyf hyt be aȝens here wyl,
Þe more he douþ hym seluen yl.

Handlyng Synne (1303)

Ȝyf weddyd man, sengle woman takeþ,
Forsoþe spousebrechë þere he makyþ.
Ȝyf weddyd wyfe take sengle man,
Alle spousebreche tel y hyt þan;
For þey haue broke with-outë fayle
Þe chastë bondë of spousayle.

Handlyng Synne (1303)

Als thai haf wryten and sayd
Haf I alle in myn Inglis layd,
In symple speche as I couthe,
That is lightest in mannes mouthe.
I mad noght for no disours,
Ne for no seggers, no harpours,
Bot for the luf of symple men
That strange Inglis can not ken.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Mannyng (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.