 | 1852 - 950 pages
...folk than we ? Oil what ground hare they deserved it f Why do they hold us iu serrage ? If we all come from the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve,...how can they say or prove that they are better than wo, if it be not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride T They... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 pages
...well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villains and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater...it ? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1875 - 316 pages
...well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villains and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we ? Why do they hold us in serfage ? They are clothed in velvet, and warm in their furs, while we are... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 622 pages
...well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are- they whom we call lords greater folk than we ? On what giounds have they deserved it ? Why do they hold us in serfage ? If we all came of the same father... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 138 pages
...people," said he, "things will never go well in England so long as there be vileins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater...it? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 638 pages
...than we ? On what grounds have they deserved it ? Why do they hold us in serfage ? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better thau we, if it he not that they make us gain for them by our toil what they spend in their pride ?... | |
 | George Girling - 1882 - 168 pages
...people," said he, "things will never go well in England so long as there be vileins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater...it ? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 360 pages
...of the yeomen about him which showed how surely the Middle Ages were becoming a part of the past. " By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we ? * * * If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that... | |
 | Edward Moulton Lancaster - 1877 - 354 pages
...so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villaius (simply vassals) and gentlemen. By what right are they, whom we call lords, greater...it? Why do they hold us in serfage? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say or prove that they are better than... | |
 | Barbara Clay Finch - 1883 - 316 pages
...well in England so long as things be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater...? Why do they hold us in serfage ? If we all came of the same father and mother, of Adam and Eve, how can they say that they are better than we, if it... | |
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Good people," cried the preacher, " things will never go well in England so long as goods be not in common, and so long as there be villeins and gentlemen. By what right are they whom we call lords greater folk than we? On what grounds have they deserved... 
