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Page xi
... kind , the facts which have been gleaned having a direct or an indirect connection with the personal history of Chaucer are very few and far between . All the scattered fragments of his outer life which have been laboriously gathered up ...
... kind , the facts which have been gleaned having a direct or an indirect connection with the personal history of Chaucer are very few and far between . All the scattered fragments of his outer life which have been laboriously gathered up ...
Page xiii
... kind , in France , or elsewhere on the continent ; and on the 20th of June , in the following year , Letters of Pro- , tection , to continue in force until Michaelmas , were given him on the occasion of another visit to the continent ...
... kind , in France , or elsewhere on the continent ; and on the 20th of June , in the following year , Letters of Pro- , tection , to continue in force until Michaelmas , were given him on the occasion of another visit to the continent ...
Page liii
... kind should come after the masterpieces of literature are known , in the true sense of the word , known , that is , through a sympathetic assimilation , so far as any one's capacity in that direction extends . The Chaucer Society has ...
... kind should come after the masterpieces of literature are known , in the true sense of the word , known , that is , through a sympathetic assimilation , so far as any one's capacity in that direction extends . The Chaucer Society has ...
Page 187
... kind . 297. al be that : albeit that , although ; but although he was a phi- losopher ( the word being used with a subaudition of alchemist ) , yet had he but little gold in coffer . A fling at the pretensions of alchemy . Leigh Hunt ...
... kind . 297. al be that : albeit that , although ; but although he was a phi- losopher ( the word being used with a subaudition of alchemist ) , yet had he but little gold in coffer . A fling at the pretensions of alchemy . Leigh Hunt ...
Page 226
... kind , misfort- une , sorrow , G 1481 . balled , bald , A 198 , 2518 . barbour , barber , barber - surgeon , A 2025 . baren , pt . pl . bore , carried ; ' how that we baren us , ' how we con- ducted ourselves , A 721 . bareyne , barren ...
... kind , misfort- une , sorrow , G 1481 . balled , bald , A 198 , 2518 . barbour , barber , barber - surgeon , A 2025 . baren , pt . pl . bore , carried ; ' how that we baren us , ' how we con- ducted ourselves , A 721 . bareyne , barren ...
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Page 1 - Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes. To feme halwes. kowthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende. The hooly blisful martir for to seke. That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
Page 2 - Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre, And therto hadde he riden, no man ferre, As wel in cristendom as in hethenesse, And evere honoured for his worthynesse. At Alisaundre he was whan it was wonne. Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne...
Page 105 - Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees, And necligent, and truste on flaterye. But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralitee, good men.
Page 2 - In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste. And shortly, whan the sonne was to reste, So hadde I spoken with hem everichon...
Page 3 - 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 3 - In lystes thries, and ay slayn his foo. This ilke worthy knyght hadde been also 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 15 - To speke of phisik and of surgerye, For he was grounded in astronomye.
Page 6 - Hir nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas, Hir mouth ful smal, and therto 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 3 - Lettow hadde he reysed and in Ruce, No Cristen man so ofte of his degree. In Gernade at the seege eek hadde he be Of Algezir, and riden in Belmarye. At Lyeys was he and at Satalye, Whan they were wonne; and in the Crete See At many a noble armee hadde he be.