Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
he gan up wiune; and in Chaucers Millers Tale, Get me a staffe, that I may undersporeWhile that thou Robin heavest up the dore.He shall out of his studying1 as I gesse.And to the chamber dore he gan him dresse.His knave was a strong carle for the nones,And by the haspe bare up the dore at ones,Unto… … the ladys bower. 95 Of a jealous husband who turns his wife out of the house,we are told that, Ye dor ful stalworthly he spers,With lokkes and with barres grete,And lete his whif stand in ye strete. The doors of private houses were furnished with largeiron rings, which, being hollow, made much…
Architecture, Domestic
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