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... thee stare ; Approchë neer , and loke up merily . Now war you , sirs , and lat this man have place ; He in the waast is shape as wel as I ; This were a popet in an arm tenbrace For any womman , smal and fair of face . He semeth elvish ...
... thee stare ; Approchë neer , and loke up merily . Now war you , sirs , and lat this man have place ; He in the waast is shape as wel as I ; This were a popet in an arm tenbrace For any womman , smal and fair of face . He semeth elvish ...
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... thee , PLURAL . we . our , oure . us . ye . your , youre . yow , you . Acc . Masc . Fem . Neut . Nom . he , she , hit , it , thei , they . Gen. his , hire , hir , his , here ( her , her , hir ) . Dat . Acc . } him , hir , hire , hir ...
... thee , PLURAL . we . our , oure . us . ye . your , youre . yow , you . Acc . Masc . Fem . Neut . Nom . he , she , hit , it , thei , they . Gen. his , hire , hir , his , here ( her , her , hir ) . Dat . Acc . } him , hir , hire , hir ...
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... thee , That art so pale and deedly on to see ? Why crydestow ? who hath thee doon offence ? For Goddes love , tak al in pacience 205 210 ( 1070 ) 215 220 ( 1080 ) 225 Our prisoun , for it may non other be ; Fortune hath yeven us this ...
... thee , That art so pale and deedly on to see ? Why crydestow ? who hath thee doon offence ? For Goddes love , tak al in pacience 205 210 ( 1070 ) 215 220 ( 1080 ) 225 Our prisoun , for it may non other be ; Fortune hath yeven us this ...
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... thee no greet honour For to be fals , ne for to be traytour To me , that am thy cosin and thy brother Y - sworn ful depe , and ech of us til other , That nevere , for to dyen in the peyne , 4 Til that the deeth departe shal us tweyne ...
... thee no greet honour For to be fals , ne for to be traytour To me , that am thy cosin and thy brother Y - sworn ful depe , and ech of us til other , That nevere , for to dyen in the peyne , 4 Til that the deeth departe shal us tweyne ...
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... thee utterly 3 ; For par amour I loved hir first er thow . What wiltow seyn ? thou wistest nat yet now Whether she be a womman or goddesse . Thyn is affeccioun of holynesse , And myn is love , as to a creature ; For which I tolde thee ...
... thee utterly 3 ; For par amour I loved hir first er thow . What wiltow seyn ? thou wistest nat yet now Whether she be a womman or goddesse . Thyn is affeccioun of holynesse , And myn is love , as to a creature ; For which I tolde thee ...
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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...