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... 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 comen , and that I here the foules singe , And ...
... 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 comen , and that I here the foules singe , And ...
Page xlvi
... herte , mere = A.S . heorte , mere ; bale , care , wode = A . S. bealu , caru , wudu ; dere , drye = A . S. déore , drýge , & c . b . The final e ( unaccented ) in words of French origin is sounded as in French verse ( but it is also ...
... herte , mere = A.S . heorte , mere ; bale , care , wode = A . S. bealu , caru , wudu ; dere , drye = A . S. déore , drýge , & c . b . The final e ( unaccented ) in words of French origin is sounded as in French verse ( but it is also ...
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... herte . Ful semely hir wimpel pinched was ; 8 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 ...
... herte . Ful semely hir wimpel pinched was ; 8 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 ...
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... herte , He may nat wepe al - thogh him sore smerte . Therfore , in stede of weping3 and preyeres , Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres . + His tipet was ay farsed ful of knyves And pinnes , for to yeven faire wyves . 4 5 6 And ...
... herte , He may nat wepe al - thogh him sore smerte . Therfore , in stede of weping3 and preyeres , Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres . + His tipet was ay farsed ful of knyves And pinnes , for to yeven faire wyves . 4 5 6 And ...
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... herte At alle tymes , thogh him gamed or smerte , 530 And thanne his neighebour right as him - selve . He wolde thresshe , and ther - to dyke and delve , For Cristes sake , for every povre wight , Withouten hyre , if it lay in his might ...
... herte At alle tymes , thogh him gamed or smerte , 530 And thanne his neighebour right as him - selve . He wolde thresshe , and ther - to dyke and delve , For Cristes sake , for every povre wight , Withouten hyre , if it lay in his might ...
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PROLOGUE THE KNIGHTES TALE THE Geoffrey D. 1400 Chaucer,Richard 1833-1894 Morris,Walter W. (Walter William) 1835 Skeat No preview available - 2016 |
PROLOGUE THE KNIGHTES TALE THE Richard 1833-1894 Morris,Geoffrey D. 1400 Chaucer,Walter W. (Walter William) 1835 Skeat No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 13 - PERSOUN of a toun; But riche he was of holy thoght and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 8 - For his science, and for his heigh renoun Of fees and robes hadde he many oon. So greet a purchasour was nowher noon. Al was fee simple to him in effect, His purchasing mighte nat been infect. 320 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
Page 15 - To drawen folk to heven by fairnesse By good ensample, this was his bisynesse...
Page lxii - 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 121 - The gees for fere flowen over the trees; Out of the hyve cam the swarm of bees; So hidous was the noyse, a! benedicite! Certes, he Jakke Straw, and his meynee...
Page 5 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 23 - Greet chere made our hoste us everichon, And to the soper sette he us anon ; And served us with vitaille at the beste. Strong was the wyn, and wel to drynke us leste. A semely man our hoste was withalle For to been a marshal in an halle ; A large man he was with eyen stepe...
Page 7 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre; But al that he mighte of his freendes hente...
Page 2 - 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 3 - The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By-cause that it was old and som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, 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...