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.
Criticism

“Als thai haf wryten and sayd
Haf I alle in myn Inglis layd,
In symple speche as I couthe,
That is lightest in mannes mouthe.
I mad noght for no disours,
Ne for no seggers, no harpours,
Bot for the luf of symple men
That strange Inglis can not ken.”

Chronicle, line 71.

“And thy traveyle shalt thou sone ende,
For to thy long home sone shalt thou wende.”

Source: Handlyng Synne, Line 9193.

“There ys no solas undyr hevene
Of al that a man may nevene
That shuld a man so mochë glew
As a gode womman that loveth trew.”

Source: Handlyng Synne, Line 1909.

“No thyng ys to man so dere
As wommanys love yn gode manere.
A gode womman is mannys blys.”

Source: Handlyng Synne, Line 1905.

“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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