The Prologue: The Knight's Tale, and the Nun's Priest's TaleHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1899 - 170 pages |
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... toun , And Polyxene , that boughten love so dere , And Cleopatre , with al thy passyoun , Hyde ye youre trouthe of love , and your renoun , And thou , Tesbe , that hast of love suche peyne ; My lady comith , that al this may disteyne ...
... toun , And Polyxene , that boughten love so dere , And Cleopatre , with al thy passyoun , Hyde ye youre trouthe of love , and your renoun , And thou , Tesbe , that hast of love suche peyne ; My lady comith , that al this may disteyne ...
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... toun ; For he hadde power of confessioun , As seyde hymself , more than a curat , 220 For of his ordre he was licentiat . Ful swetely herde he confessioun , And plesaunt was his absolucioun ; He was an esy man to yeve penaunce Ther as ...
... toun ; For he hadde power of confessioun , As seyde hymself , more than a curat , 220 For of his ordre he was licentiat . Ful swetely herde he confessioun , And plesaunt was his absolucioun ; He was an esy man to yeve penaunce Ther as ...
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... toun , And everich hostiler and tappestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere ; 232. Six stresses . 233f . The Wycliffites complained bitterly of these peddling practices of the Friars . An anonymous poet of the time writes : - " For they ...
... toun , And everich hostiler and tappestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere ; 232. Six stresses . 233f . The Wycliffites complained bitterly of these peddling practices of the Friars . An anonymous poet of the time writes : - " For they ...
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... toun ; But riche he was of holy thoght and werk . 480 He was also a lèrned man , a clerk , That Cristes gospel trewely wolde pręche ; His parisshēns devoutly wolde he tęche . Benygne he was , and wonder diligent , And in adversitee ful ...
... toun ; But riche he was of holy thoght and werk . 480 He was also a lèrned man , a clerk , That Cristes gospel trewely wolde pręche ; His parisshēns devoutly wolde he tęche . Benygne he was , and wonder diligent , And in adversitee ful ...
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... toun men clepen Baldeswelle . Tukked he was , as is a frere , aboute , And ever he rood the hyndreste of our route . A SOMNOUR was ther with us in that place , That hadde a fir - reed cherubynnes face , 625 For sawceflem he was , with ...
... toun men clepen Baldeswelle . Tukked he was , as is a frere , aboute , And ever he rood the hyndreste of our route . A SOMNOUR was ther with us in that place , That hadde a fir - reed cherubynnes face , 625 For sawceflem he was , with ...
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