"Benedight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... adown: Awake, and think on Christe's passioun. I crouche thee from elves, and from wights*. *witches Therewith the night-spell said he anon rights*, *properly On the four halves* of the house about, *corners And on the threshold of the door without. "Lord Jesus Christ, and Sainte Benedight, Blesse this house from every wicked wight, From the night mare, the white Pater-noster; Where wonnest* thou now, Sainte Peter's sister?" *dwellest And at the last this Hendy Nicholas Gan for to sigh full ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... Benedight Blisse this hous from every wicked wight, Fro the nightes mare, the white Pater Noster; Where wonest thou, Seint ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... Jhesu Crist and seynte Benedight, Blesse this hous from every wikkede wight Fro nightes verray, the white Paternoster When wonestow now, ...
— Notes & Queries 1850.02.09 • Various |
