The PrologueMacmillan, 1903 - 116 pages |
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Page xxii
... thought to be made up of fragments of two or three different versions , the first of which is attributed to Chaucer by the best critics , while the authorship of the rest is unknown . THE DETHE OF BLAUNCHE THE DUCHESSE , PITY ...
... thought to be made up of fragments of two or three different versions , the first of which is attributed to Chaucer by the best critics , while the authorship of the rest is unknown . THE DETHE OF BLAUNCHE THE DUCHESSE , PITY ...
Page xxiii
... thought ; and to explain these allusions , it has been thought that we must take the eight years ' sickness mentioned in Blaunche to refer to a real unrequited love , which must have begun in 1361 or 1362 , and have lasted after ...
... thought ; and to explain these allusions , it has been thought that we must take the eight years ' sickness mentioned in Blaunche to refer to a real unrequited love , which must have begun in 1361 or 1362 , and have lasted after ...
Page lxiii
... thought to be peculiarly suited to the Canterbury Tales , because the pilgrims rode on horseback . Thus it came to pass that later poets in praising Chaucer's humour and other obvious gifts so frequently apologized for , or regretted ...
... thought to be peculiarly suited to the Canterbury Tales , because the pilgrims rode on horseback . Thus it came to pass that later poets in praising Chaucer's humour and other obvious gifts so frequently apologized for , or regretted ...
Page lxvii
... all cases between changes which may have been made by a clever scribe and those which may be the second thoughts of the poet himself . I , therefore , feel free occasionally to introduce into THE TEXT OF THE CANTERBURY TALES lxvii.
... all cases between changes which may have been made by a clever scribe and those which may be the second thoughts of the poet himself . I , therefore , feel free occasionally to introduce into THE TEXT OF THE CANTERBURY TALES lxvii.
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... thought it was noght worth to make it wys , 785 And graunted hym withouten moore avys , And bad him seye his verdit , as hym leste . ' Lordynges , ' quod he , ' now herkneth for the beste ; But taak it nought , I prey yow , in desdeyn ...
... thought it was noght worth to make it wys , 785 And graunted hym withouten moore avys , And bad him seye his verdit , as hym leste . ' Lordynges , ' quod he , ' now herkneth for the beste ; But taak it nought , I prey yow , in desdeyn ...
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Page 11 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 4 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.
Page 15 - To speke of phisik and of surgerye; For he was grounded in astronomye.
Page 6 - Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte; And al was conscience and tendre herte. Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was; Hire nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas, Hir mouth ful smal and ther-to softe and reed, But sikerly she hadde a fair forheed; It was almoost a spanne brood I trowe, For, hardily, she was nat undergrowe.
Page 14 - Burdeuxward, whil that the chapman sleep. Of nyce conscience took he no keep; If that he faught, and hadde the hyer hond, By water he sente hem hoom to every lond.
Page 6 - And to ben holden digne of reverence. But, for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. Of smale houndes had she, that she fedde With rosted flesh, or milk and wastel-breed. But sore weep she if oon of hem were deed, Or if men smoot it with a yerde...
Page 1 - WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open eye, So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages...
Page 3 - Somtyme with the lord of Palatye Agayn another hethen in Turkye. And everemoore he hadde a sovereyn prys; And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meeke as is a mayde. He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde In al his lyf unto no maner wight. He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
Page 19 - A trewe swynkere and a good was he, Lyvynge in pees and parfit charitee. God loved he best, with al his hoole herte, At alle tymes, thogh him gamed or smerte, And thanne his neighebore right as hymselve.
Page 13 - An anlaas, and a gipser al of silk, Heeng at his girdel, whit as morne milk; A shirreve hadde he been, and a countour. Was nowher such a worthy vavasour.