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Page ix
... person . In 1369 ( Aug. 15 ) the death of Queen Philippa took place , and two or three months later , Blanche , the wife of John of Gaunt , died , at the age of twenty - nine . Chaucer did honour to the memory of his patron's wife in a ...
... person . In 1369 ( Aug. 15 ) the death of Queen Philippa took place , and two or three months later , Blanche , the wife of John of Gaunt , died , at the age of twenty - nine . Chaucer did honour to the memory of his patron's wife in a ...
Page x
... person m . This was Chaucer's first important mission . It was no doubt skilfully executed , and gave entire satisfaction to the king , who on the 23rd of April , 1374 , on the celebration of the feast of St. George , at Windsor , made ...
... person m . This was Chaucer's first important mission . It was no doubt skilfully executed , and gave entire satisfaction to the king , who on the 23rd of April , 1374 , on the celebration of the feast of St. George , at Windsor , made ...
Page xi
... person of Edmond Staplegate of Kent , which he retained for three years , during which time he received as wardship and marriage fee the sum of 104 % .; and ( on Dec. 8 ) the custody of five ' solidates ' of rent P in Soles in Kent ...
... person of Edmond Staplegate of Kent , which he retained for three years , during which time he received as wardship and marriage fee the sum of 104 % .; and ( on Dec. 8 ) the custody of five ' solidates ' of rent P in Soles in Kent ...
Page xvi
... person he was corpulent , and , like his host of the Tabard , ' a large man , ' and no ' poppet ' to embrace ; but his face was small , fair , and intelligent , his eye downcast and meditative , but dazed by age and study . Altogether ...
... person he was corpulent , and , like his host of the Tabard , ' a large man , ' and no ' poppet ' to embrace ; but his face was small , fair , and intelligent , his eye downcast and meditative , but dazed by age and study . Altogether ...
Page xix
... persons of plebeian rank ) were necessarily prone to be guilty of base and unworthy actions ; and at the present day we can hardly appreciate the boldness which made him assert more than once that the true test of gentility is nobleness ...
... persons of plebeian rank ) were necessarily prone to be guilty of base and unworthy actions ; and at the present day we can hardly appreciate the boldness which made him assert more than once that the true test of gentility is nobleness ...
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Page 114 - Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran, And eek with staves many another man; Ran Colle our dogge, and Talbot, and Gerland, And...
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Page 17 - What so he were, of high or lovve estat, Him wolde he snybbe scharply for the nones. A bettre preest, I trowe, ther nowher non is. He waytede after no pompe and reverence, 525 Ne makede him a spiced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taughte, but first he folwede it himselve.
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Page 15 - PERSOUN of a toun, But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, 480 That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parishens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 10 - Of studie took he moost cure and moost heede. Noght o word spak he moore than was neede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence; Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
Page 6 - And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men...
Page 92 - Greet was theffect, and heigh was his entente ; Wei wiste he why, and what ther-of he mente ; For with that faire cheyne of love he bond . The fyr, the eyr, the water, and the lond In certeyn boundes, that they may nat flee ; 2135 That same prince and that moevere...
Page 2 - Wei nyne and twenty in a companye, Of sondry folk, by aventure y-falle 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 7 - Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare Was al his lust, for no cost wolde he spare.