| Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 352 pages
...blithe was every wight ; And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by composicioun, 850 As ye han herd; what needeth wordes moo? And whan...seigh that it was so, As he that wys was and obedient 828. — water ynge of seini Thomas. The watering of St. Thomas was at the second mile-stone on the... | |
| Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 360 pages
...sort, or cas, The soth is this, the fil to the knight, Of which ful glad and blithe was every wight ; And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by composicioun, 85° As ye han herd; what needeth wordes moo? Aud whan this goode man seigh that it was so, As he that... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1847 - 350 pages
...sort, or cas, The soth is this, the fil to the knight, Of which ful glad and blithe was every wight ; And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by composicioun, 850 As ye han herd; what needeth wordes moo? And whan this goode man seigh that it was so, As he that... | |
| Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 358 pages
...sort, or cas, The soth is this, the fil to the knight, Of which ful glad and blithe was every wight; And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by composicioun, 850 As ye han herd; what needeth wordes moo? And whan this goode man seigh that it was so, As he that... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1847 - 358 pages
...sort, or cas, The soth is this, the fil to the knight, Of which ful glad and blithe was every wight; And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by composiciouu, 850 As ye han herd; what needeth wordes moo ? And whan this goode man seigh that it was... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1853 - 248 pages
...or cas, The soth is this, the cut fil to the knight, Of which ful glad and blithe was every wight; And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by composicioun, 850 As ye han herd; what needeth wordes moo? And whan this goode man seigh that it was so, As he that... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - English poetry - 1854 - 294 pages
...night. The soth is this, the cut fil to the knight, Of which full glad and blithe was every wight ; And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward...seigh that it was so, As he that wys was and obedient To kepe his forward by his fre assent, He seyde : ' Syn I schal bygynne the game, What, weleome be... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1867 - 282 pages
...was, Were it by aventure, or sort, or cas, The soth is this, the cut fil to the knight, Of which ful glad and blithe was every wight ; 840 And telle he...was resoun, By forward and by composicioun, As ye ban herd; what needeth wordes moo? And whan this goode man seigh that it was so, As he that wys was... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1869 - 308 pages
...cas, The soth is this, the cut fil to the knight, 845 Of which ful blithe and glad was every wight ; And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward...moo ? And whan this goode man seigh that it was so, 850 As he that wys was and obedient To kepe his forward by his fre assent, He seyde : ' Syn I schal... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1869 - 304 pages
...cas, The soth is this, the cut fil to the knight, 845 Of which ful blithe and glad was every wight ; And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by composicioun, As _ye han herd ; what needeth wordes moo ? And whan this goode man seigh that it was so, 850 As he that... | |
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