Top 8 Quotes by Robert Henryson

Best thing in eird,I say for me, Is merry hart with small possessioun.

Best thing in eird,I say for me, Is merry hart with small possessioun.

Hart, Best Things, Merry

c.1470 Moral Fables,'The Two Mice', l.387-8.

Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.

Robert Henryson

War, Suffering, May

c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, l.561-4.

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

Robert Henryson

Men, May, He Man

c.1460 'Robene and Makeyne', l.91-2.

For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.

Robert Henryson

Kings, Age, Lord

c.1460 'The Praise of Age', l.5-9.

The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch,Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill.Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch,And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.

Robert Henryson

Doctrine, Fruit, Hard