The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His WorksMacmillan Company, 1894 - 881 pages |
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... werkes , and to faire , And therto she had on an haire . Ne certes , she was fat no - thing , 430 435 The tyme , that eldeth our auncessours And eldeth kinges and emperours , And that us alle shal overcomen Er that deeth us shal have ...
... werkes , and to faire , And therto she had on an haire . Ne certes , she was fat no - thing , 430 435 The tyme , that eldeth our auncessours And eldeth kinges and emperours , And that us alle shal overcomen Er that deeth us shal have ...
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... werkes can aspye . And ne hadde the good keping be Whylom of the universitee , 7090 " As moche as , thurgh his grete might , Be it of hete , or of light , The sunne surmounteth the mone , That troubler is , and chaungeth sone , And the ...
... werkes can aspye . And ne hadde the good keping be Whylom of the universitee , 7090 " As moche as , thurgh his grete might , Be it of hete , or of light , The sunne surmounteth the mone , That troubler is , and chaungeth sone , And the ...
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... werkes were flittinge , + And al my thoghtes varyinge ; Al were to me y - liche good , That I knew tho ; but thus hit stood . ' Hit happed that I cam ta day Into a place , ther I say , Trewly , the fayrest companyë 800 805 Or kindely ...
... werkes were flittinge , + And al my thoghtes varyinge ; Al were to me y - liche good , That I knew tho ; but thus hit stood . ' Hit happed that I cam ta day Into a place , ther I say , Trewly , the fayrest companyë 800 805 Or kindely ...
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... werkes fonde , The most benigne and the goodlieste ; In hir was every vertu at his reste , So ferforth , that Nature hir - self had blisse 376 To loke on hir , and ofte hir bek to kisse . Nature , the vicaire of th'almyghty lorde , That ...
... werkes fonde , The most benigne and the goodlieste ; In hir was every vertu at his reste , So ferforth , that Nature hir - self had blisse 376 To loke on hir , and ofte hir bek to kisse . Nature , the vicaire of th'almyghty lorde , That ...
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... werkes bereth witnesse . 10 Ther is no feith that may your herte en- brace ; But , as a wedercok , that turneth his face With every wind , ye fare , and that is sene ; In stede of blew , thus may ye were al grene . Ye might be shryned ...
... werkes bereth witnesse . 10 Ther is no feith that may your herte en- brace ; But , as a wedercok , that turneth his face With every wind , ye fare , and that is sene ; In stede of blew , thus may ye were al grene . Ye might be shryned ...
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Page 544 - Ne him that is agast of every tool, Ne noon avauntour, by that god above! How dorste ye seyn for shame unto your love, That any thing mighte make yow aferd? Have ye no mannes herte, and han a berd?
Page 424 - She passed hem of Ypres and of Gaunt. In al the parisshe wyf ne was ther noon That to th' offring bifore hir sholde goon; And if ther dide, certeyn, so wrooth was she, That she was out of alle charitee. Hir coverchiefs ful fyne were of ground; I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound That on a Sonday were upon hir heed.
Page 430 - Syn I shal bigynne the game, What, welcome be the cut, a Goddes name! Now lat us ryde, and herkneth what I seye.
Page 572 - As help me God, whan that I saugh hym go After the beere, me thoughte he hadde a paire Of legges and of feet so clene and faire, That al myn herte I yaf unto his hoold.
Page 420 - Harneised wel, and sharp as point of spere; A Cristofre on his brest of silver shene. An horn he bar, the bawdrik was of grene; A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse. Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, That of hir smyling was ful simple and coy; Hir gretteste ooth was but by se•ynt Loy; 120 And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.
Page 423 - And many a breem and many a luce in stewe. 350 Wo was his cook, but-if his sauce were Poynaunt and sharp, and redy al his gere. His table dormant in his halle alway Stood redy covered al the longe day.
Page 421 - A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. His heed was balled that shoon as any glas, And eek his face as he had been anoint. He was a lord ful fat and in good point...
Page 422 - 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 428 - Or feyne thing, or finde wordes newe. 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. 74 Eek Plato seith, who-so that can him rede, The wordes mote be cosin to the dede.
Page 547 - His seven wyves walking by his syde, Caste up his eyen to the brighte sonne, That in the signe of Taurus hadde y-ronne Twenty degrees and oon, and somwhat more; And knew by kynde,"' and by noon other lore, That it was pryme, and crew with blisful stevene.