"Uncourteous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... JOHN. "It is long for GREENLEAF, fasting so long to be. Therefore I pray thee, Steward, my dinner give thou me!" "Shalt thou never eat nor drink," said the Steward, "Till my lord be come to town!" "I make my avow to God," said Little JOHN "I had lever to crack thy crown!" The Butler was full uncourteous, There he stood on floor; He started to the buttery, and shut fast the door. Little JOHN gave the Butler such a rap His back went nigh in two Though he lived an hundred winters, the worse he should go. He spurned the door with his foot, it went up ...
— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various
... in form he placed his chief delight, Nor lightly broke his old accustomed rule, And much uncourteous would he hold the wight That e'er displaced a table, chair, or stool; And oft in meet array their ranks he placed, And oft with careful eye their ranks reviewed; For novel forms, though much those forms had graced, Himself and maiden-minister eschewed: ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan |
