human
If, quoth Dorigene, ye love _mankind_ so well ---- ---- ---- ----- how then may it be That ye such _rock[=e]s_ make, _it_ to destroyen, Which _rock[=e]s_ don no good but ever anoyen?
gpt
That semen rather a foule confusion Of werk, than any faire creation Of swiche a parfit wis[=e] God and stable; Why have ye wrought this work unreasonable? For by this werk, north, south, ne west, ne est, There n'is yfostred man, ne brid, ne best; _It doth no good_, to my wit, _but anoyeth_.
human
Ye had a great chertee Toward mankind; but how then may it be That ye swiche menez make, it to destroyen, Which menez don no good, but ever anoyen?
gpt
In menez libra.
human
NOTES AND QUERIES,
gpt
Armoric, _Men_, a stone; _menez_, a mountain.
human
Welsh, _Maen_, a stone; _maen terfyn_, a boundary stone; _maen mawr_, a large stone.
gpt
EYSELL ,
human
CAPTIOUS.
gpt
and
human
to be highly interesting, and of course applied to the folk talk for its definition. In the first case I obtained from my own experience, what I think will be a satisfactory clue to its meaning, and something more in addition. There is a herb of an acid taste, the common name for which--the only one with which I am acquainted--is _green-sauce_; and this herb is, or rather was, much sought after by children in my boyish days. At a public school not a dozen miles from Stratford-on-Avon, it was a common practice for we lads to spend our holidays in roaming about the fields; and among objects of search, this green-sauce was a prominent one, and it was a point of honour with each of us to notify to the others the discovery of a root of green-sauce. In doing this, the discoverer, after satisfying himself by his taste that the true herb was found, followed an accepted course, and signified his success to his companions by raising his voice and shouting, what I have always been accustomed to write,
gpt
Hey-sall. I have no knowledge of the origin of this word; it was with us as a school-rule so to use it; and I have no doubt but that