Robert Mannyng Quotes

Robert Mannyng was an English chronicler and Gilbertine monk. Mannyng provides a surprising amount of information about himself in his two known works, Handlyng Synne and Mannyng's Chronicle. In these two works, Mannyng tells of his residencies at the Gilbertine houses of Sempringham and Sixhills, and also at the Gilbertine priory at Cambridge, St Edmund’s. Wikipedia  

✵ 1275 – 1338
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Famous Robert Mannyng Quotes

“The range of his sympathies and interests makes Handlyng Synne the best picture of English life before Langland and Chaucer.”

Kenneth Sisam (ed.) Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose ([1921] 1955) p. 3.
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“And thy traveyle shalt thou sone ende,
For to thy long home sone shalt thou wende.”

Source: Handlyng Synne, Line 9193.

“He felle dede doun colde as ony stone.”

Thomas Hearne (ed.) Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, as Illustrated and Improv'd by Robert of Brunne (1725) vol. 1, p. 56.

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