"Werke" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from 1590, after mentioning the "framed" or "joyned" table, name the "carpett of Turky werke" which covered it, and in many cases there was still another covering to protect the best one, and when Frederick, Duke of Wurtemburg, visited England in 1592 he noted a very extravagant "carpett" at Hampton Court, which was embroidered with ...
— Illustrated History of Furniture - From the Earliest to the Present Time • Frederick Litchfield
... have a letter written wele, Now let us wysely werke, We wyl saye we have the kynges seale; I holde the ...
— Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws - Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series • Frank Sidgwick
... lord his bookie fele [many] Hath eu'y clerk at werk. They of hem gete Metaphisic; phisic these rather feele; They natural, moral they rather trete; Theologie here ye is with to mete; Him liketh loke in boke historial. In deskis XII hym serve as half a strete Hath looked their librair ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage |
