Chaucer, the Prologue, the Knightes Tale the Nonne Preestes Tale from the Canterbury TalesAt the Clarendon Press, 1892 - 262 pages |
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... give the date June 8 , 1373 ] . And though it is the Clerk of Oxenford , and not Chaucer , that asserts that he learned the tale of ' a worthy clerk ' at Padua , ' Fraunces Petrarch , the laureate poete , ' yet there can be no question ...
... give the date June 8 , 1373 ] . And though it is the Clerk of Oxenford , and not Chaucer , that asserts that he learned the tale of ' a worthy clerk ' at Padua , ' Fraunces Petrarch , the laureate poete , ' yet there can be no question ...
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... ( give ) I feyth and ful credence , And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely that there is game noon , That fro my bokes maketh me to goon , But hit be seldom , on the holy day , Save , certeynly , whan that the month of May Is ...
... ( give ) I feyth and ful credence , And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely that there is game noon , That fro my bokes maketh me to goon , But hit be seldom , on the holy day , Save , certeynly , whan that the month of May Is ...
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... , to which Chaucer himself gives the name of " Palemon , " were in hand at about the same time . ' ( Skeat , in Notes and Queries , Fourth Series , iv . 292. ) Athens with Hippolyta and her sister Emilia . He enters THE KNIGHTES TALE . XXV.
... , to which Chaucer himself gives the name of " Palemon , " were in hand at about the same time . ' ( Skeat , in Notes and Queries , Fourth Series , iv . 292. ) Athens with Hippolyta and her sister Emilia . He enters THE KNIGHTES TALE . XXV.
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... gives him an advantage over his rival which makes the catastrophe more consonant to poetical justice ; ( 2 ) The picture which Boccaccio has ex- hibited of two young princes violently enamoured of the same object , without jealousy or ...
... gives him an advantage over his rival which makes the catastrophe more consonant to poetical justice ; ( 2 ) The picture which Boccaccio has ex- hibited of two young princes violently enamoured of the same object , without jealousy or ...
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... gives some account of the editions of the poet's works . Some of the remarks upon the poems of ' Anelida and Arcite ' and ' The Parlement of Foules ' are so important for the right understanding of the Knightes Tale that the substance ...
... gives some account of the editions of the poet's works . Some of the remarks upon the poems of ' Anelida and Arcite ' and ' The Parlement of Foules ' are so important for the right understanding of the Knightes Tale that the substance ...
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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.
Page 18 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?
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 21 - Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace, That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace The wisdom of an heep of lerned men?
Page 107 - A yerd she hadde, enclosed al aboute With stikkes, and a drye dich with-oute, In which she hadde a cok, hight Chauntecleer, In al the land of crowing nas his peer.
Page 6 - But for to speken of hir conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous, She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. Of smale houndes hadde she, that she fedde With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed. But soore weep she if oon of hem were deed, Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte; And al was conscience, and tendre herte.
Page 94 - What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, with-outen any companye.
Page 26 - He may nat spare, al-thogh he were his brother; He moot as wel seye o word as another. Crist spak him-self ful brode in holy writ, And wel ye woot, no vileinye is it. 740 Eek Plato seith, who-so that can him rede, The wordes mote be cosin to the dede.
Page 6 - Hir 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 almost a spanne brood, I trowe; For, hardily, she was nat undergrowe.
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