Gower
Cited as Gower. — 28 quotations
Behoove
It shall not be to his behoove.
Boil
The stomach cook is for the hall, And boileth meate for them all.
Bounty
Nature set in her at once beauty with bounty.
Constellation
It is constellation, which causeth all that a man doeth.
Counsel
Thilke lord . . . to whom no counsel may be hid.
Courb
Her neck is short, her shoulders courb.
Couth
Above all other one Daniel He loveth, for he couth well Divine, that none other couth; To him were all things couth, As he had it of God's grace.
Crest
And on his head there stood upright A crest, in token of a knight.
Current
Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord.
Deliver
She was delivered safe and soon.
Despoil
The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair.
Dispense
His sin was dispensed With gold, whereof it was compensed.
Fairy
The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company.
Grow
Where law faileth, error groweth.
Let
Anon he let two coffers make.
Lief
All women liefest would Be sovereign of man's love.
Load
He might such a load To town with his ass carry.
Mannish
But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish creature.
March
That was in a strange land Which marcheth upon Chimerie.
Nature
He [God] which natureth every kind.
Rampant
The fierce lion in his kind Which goeth rampant after his prey.
Rent
[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent.
Reverse
He found the sea diverse With many a windy storm reverse.
Sight
A wonder sight of flowers.
Sir
He was crowned lord and sire.
Sky
She passeth as it were a sky.
Stretch
As far as stretcheth any ground.
Virgin
He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said.