 | Eleanor Childs Meehan - Europe - 1903 - 390 pages
...and very true old epitaph: "How now, who is heare? I, Robin of Doncastire, And Margaret, my feare, That I spent, that I had, That I gave, that I have, That I left, that I lost." But we were too much interested in the personality, so to speak, of the tombs, to search for . something... | |
 | Frederic William Unger - Epitaphs - 1904 - 216 pages
...Doncaster in Yorkshire ; v Howe ! Howe ! who is heare? I Robin of Doncastere And Margaret my Flare (wife) That I spent, that I had, That I gave, that I have, That I left, that I lost. AD 1579. Ruth Sprague, Daughter of Gibson and Elizabeth Sprague. Died June 11, 1846, aged 9 years, 4 months,... | |
 | Wills - 1904 - 292 pages
...Thomas 3 His will is at York I January, proved Rockley. He died 7 January, 25 Hen. 26 February, 1605-6. That I spent, that I had, That I gave, that I have, That I left, that I lost, Quoth Robertas Byrkes, who in this world did reygne three skore yeares and seaven, and yett lyved nott... | |
 | Romani - 1905 - 500 pages
...in Roman capitals : — " Howe : Howe : who is heare : I, Robin of Doncaster, and Margaret my feare. That I spent, that I had : That I gave, that I have : That I left, that I lost. AD 1579. Quod Robertua Byrkes. who in this worlde I did reygne thre score yeares and seaven, and yet lived... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1907 - 142 pages
...Pt. II., sect. 13. p. 78, 1. 22. An epitaph in St. George's Church, Doncaster, is said to run : — "That I spent, that I had ; that I gave, that I have ; that I left, that I lost. AD 1579." XX. LITERARY CRITICISM. p. 81, 1. 5. Aristotle (BC 384-322), the greatest of Greek philosophers,... | |
 | Mary Cecil Hay - English fiction - 1899 - 392 pages
...Myddelton's," opposed Mrs. Payte sturdily. " I remember once reading an epitaph which ran in this way: " ' That I spent, that I had; That I gave, that I have; That l left, that I lost.' So yon see how old Myddelton managed? He spent little, so he had little; he gave... | |
 | Albinia Lucy Cust Wherry - 1910 - 158 pages
...benefactor of the poor. Howe, Howe who 's there ? I Robin of Lancaster, And Margaret my fere. That I spent I had, That I gave that I have, That I left that I lost, Quoth Robertus Byrks who in the world did reign Three score years and seven but lived not one. Anno... | |
 | American periodicals - 1910 - 1036 pages
...Mystery, I dared to ask of It the boon for which I had labored so long, can any one wonder that I say so? That I spent, that I had ; That I gave, that I have ; That I left, that I lost. — Robert Byrkrs. IT was eleven o'clock of a cold Christmas Eve in the year 1999. In the little old... | |
 | Arthur Hodges - 1912 - 404 pages
...the tomb of a knight, I think.' I have always remembered it," she went on, " and I'll repeat it. " ' That I spent >— that I had That I gave — that I have That I left — that I lost.' " Its meaning is quite clear and I explained it to him. In a way he had understood it, but I think... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...in Roman capitals : — Howe : Howe : who is heare : I, Robin of Doncaster, and Margaret my feare. That I spent, that I had ; That I gave, that I have ; That I left, that I lost. An 1579. The following is the epitaph of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon*1''"1' according to Cleaveland's... | |
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And Margaret my feare. That I spent, that I had : That I gave, that I have ; That I left, that I lost. AD 1579. — ' Quoth Robertas Byrks, who in this world did reign threescore years and seven, and yet lived not one. 
