Smoot Hearings

Famous quotes containing the words smoot and/or hearings:

    Of smale houndes hadde she that she fedde
    With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed.
    But soore wepte she if oon of hem were deed,
    Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte—
    And al was conscience and tendre herte.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Aged ears play truant at his tales,
    And younger hearings are quite ravished,
    So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)