"Erst" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the mede, Then love I most those floures white and redde; Such that men callen Daisies in our town. To them I have so great affection, As I said erst when comen is the Maye, That in my bedde there dawneth me no daie, That I n'am up and walking in the mede To see this floure against the sunne sprede. When it upriseth early by the morrow, That blessed sight softeneth all my sorrow. So glad am I, when that ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... Erst when the service was ended came King Arthur to the knight as he lay, and said: "God give ye good-day, dear Sir Knight; tell me who hath wounded ye so sorely, and how came ye by your hurt? Did the knight who wrought such harm depart ...
— The Romance of Morien • Jessie L. Weston
... the plump and lusty dame, With high erected chest and vigorous mien, Was erst th' enamored knight Don Quixote's flame, The ...
— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... me not the blossoms young, That erst on Flora's forehead hung; But round thy radiant temples twine, The flowers whose flaunting ...
— Poems (1828) • Thomas Gent
... remembrance the fair joy and the solace that were his when he had this lady between his arms. He considered within himself that if by reason of his misdoing she came to harm, or were lost to him, since he might not take her where he went, how could he live without her. It would be with him also, as erst with the Castellan of Couci, who having his Love fast only in his heart, told over in ...
— French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France • Marie de France
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