Nat King

Famous quotes containing the words nat and/or king:

    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)

    When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora’s box. “What! all!” said the Prince. “Yes, all.” “No,” said the Prince; “curiosity must have been without.”
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)