"England is a well good land; in the stead best Set in the one end of the world, and reigneth west. The Sea goeth him all about, he stint as an yle, Of foes it need the lesse doubt: but it be through gile Of folke of the self land, as me hath I sey while From south to north it is long, eight hundred mile, And two hundred mile broad from east to west to wend Amid the land as it might be: and not as in the one end, Plentie men may in England of all good see, But folk it agult, other years the worse and worse be. For England is full enough of fruit and of treene, Of Woods and of Parks that joy it is to seene."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
p. 8
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_of_Gloucester_(historian)
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Robert of Gloucester (historian)
Robert of Gloucester (fl. c. 1260 – c. 1300) was an English chronicler. He wrote a chronicle of British, English and Norman history sometime in the mid- or late thirteenth century.
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Robert of Gloucester (historian) →
Related Quotes
"Engelond his a wel god lond · ich wene ech londe best · Iset in the on end of the · worlde as al in the west · The se…"
"So clene lond is Engelond · and so cler withouten hore, The veireste men in the world · ther inne beth ibore, So clen…"
"Thus the English folk came to the ground for nought, for a false king having no right to the kingdom, and came to a n…"
"Game of hounds and of wild beasts he loved well, and his forest and his woods, and the New Forest most of all, which …"
"In the countrey of Canterbury, most plenty of fish is, And most chase of wild beasts, about Salisbury I wis. And Lond…"
"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"
"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"
"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"
"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"
"Kynge Henry beynge in Normādy, after some wryters fell from, or with his horse, whereof he caughte his deth: but Ranu…"