Nat Device

Famous quotes containing the words nat and/or device:

    nat every wight he sholde go selle
    Al that he hadde and yive it to the poore,
    And in swich wise folwe him and his fore:
    He spak to hem that wolde live parfitly—
    And lordinges, by youre leve, that am nat I.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    A bracelet of bright hair about the bone,
    Will he not let us alone,
    And think that there a loving couple lies
    Who thought that this device might be some way
    To make their souls, at the last busy day,
    Meet at this grave, and make a little stay?
    John Donne (1572–1631)