Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer (1814)
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847, John Rylands Library · London · leaf 339
e Wife of Bath, the Parson,* and the Ploughman, follow. * The poor Parson was proverbial in Chaucers time: the description of hiiu begin*thus: A good man ther was of religyon And was a poure parson of a tounBut riche he was of holy thought & werkHe was also a lemed man and a clerkThat crysten… … THE MILLER. The Myllere was a stout carle for the nonys Ful byg he was of braun and bonys That proued wel for oueral there he cam At vvrastlynge alwey he wolde haue the ram He was short shuldred brood a thycke quarre Ther was no dore that he nolde heue of the barre Or breke it at rennynge wyth hys…
