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" For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste ; And shame it is, if a preest take keep, A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. "
The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Preestes Tale, from the ... - Page 18
by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1889 - 262 pages
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The Hengwrt Ms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Parts 1-3

Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1879 - 824 pages
...oghte a preest1 ensample for to yiue By his clennesse / how fat his sheep sholde lyue He sette noght1. his benefice to hyre And leet his sheep / encombred in the Myre 508 And ran to London / vn to Seint Poules To seeken hym / a Chauntrye for soules Or with a breetherede...
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The Book of the Tales of Caunterbury: Prolog

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1882 - 44 pages
...clene sheep. 505 Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yiue By his clennesse, how his sheep shold lyue. He sette nat his benefice to hyre And leet his sheep encombred in the myre And ran to Londoun vn to seinte Poules 510 To seken hym a chauntrie for soules Or with a bretherhed to been withholde,...
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A biographical history of English literature

John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...be compared with Chaucer's lines about a "pore persoun of a touu" in the Prologue : — He sette not his benefice to hyre, And leet his sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to Londone, unto seynte Ponies, To seeken him a chaunterie for soules. 6. Like the Vicar of Bray, in the...
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Second Middle English Primer: Extracts from Chaucer

Henry Sweet - English language - 1886 - 132 pages
...ruste. WeI oghte a preest ensaumple for to yive 505 by his cl^n'nesse, how that his sheep sholde lyve. He sette nat his benefice to hyre, and leet his sheep encombred in the myre, and ran to London unto seinte Pgules to seken hym a chaunterie for soules, 510 or with. a bretherhgd to been withhglde, but...
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Second Middle English Primer: Extracts from Chaucer

Henry Sweet - English language - 1886 - 148 pages
...ensaumple for to yive 505 by his clejrness^, how that his sheep shold« lyve. He sette nat his benefio? to hyre, and leet his sheep encombred in the myre, and ran to London unto seinte Pgules to seken hym a chaunterk for sgules, 510 or with a bretherhgd to been withhglde, but...
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The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Preestes Tale, from the ...

Geoffrey Chaucer - Clarendon Press series - 1889 - 334 pages
...preest take keep, A [spotted] shepherde and a clene sheep. Wei oghte a preest ensample for to yive3, 505 By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live....sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, un-to se'ynt2 Poules, To seken him a chaunterie10 for soules, 510 Or with a bretherhed to been withholde;...
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The Prologue: The Knights Tale, the Nonne Preestes Tale, from the Canterbury ...

Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury (England) - 1889 - 332 pages
...preest take keep, A [spotted] shepherde and a dene sheep. Wei oghte a preest ensample for to yive6, 505 By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live....sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, un-to se'ynt2 Poules, To seken him a chaunterie10 for soules, sio Or with a bretherhed to been withholde;...
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The Prologue: The Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale, from the Canterbury ...

Geoffrey Chaucer - English language - 1891 - 338 pages
...preest take keep, A [spotted] shepherde and a clene sheep. Wei oghte a preest ensample for to yive8, 505 By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live....ran to London, un-to se'ynt9 Poules, To seken him a chaunterie 10 for soules, jio Or with a bretherhed to been withholde ; But dwelte " at hoom, and kepte...
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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer - English poetry - 1891 - 116 pages
...ruste ; , / f And shame it is, if a preest take keep,' A [o1rtyj shepherde and a cle.ne sheep. Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, 505 By his clennesse,...sheep shold live. He sette nat his benefice to hyre, -> . /- •• rjteti-*-- ' And leer his sheep encombred in the myre, (510) And ran to London, un-to...
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Chaucer, the Prologue, the Knightes Tale the Nonne Preestes Tale from the ...

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1892 - 348 pages
...preest take keep, A [spotted] shepherde and a clene sheep. Wei oghte a preest ensample for to yive8, 505 By his clennesse, how that his sheep shold live....ran to London, un-to se'ynt9 Poules, To seken him a chaunterie 18 for soules, 510 Or with a bretherhed to been withholde ; But dwelte " at hoom, and kepte...
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