The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text with Illustrative Notes, Volume 24Percy Society, 1847 - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
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... housbonds ben from hem ago , That for the more part they sorwen so , Or elles fallen in such maladye , That atte laste certeynly they dye . Infynyt been the sorwes and the teeres Of olde folk , and folk of tendre yeeres ; So gret a ...
... housbonds ben from hem ago , That for the more part they sorwen so , Or elles fallen in such maladye , That atte laste certeynly they dye . Infynyt been the sorwes and the teeres Of olde folk , and folk of tendre yeeres ; So gret a ...
Page 123
... housbond and for lord : Lene me youre hand , for this is oure acord . Let see now of your wommanly pité . He is a kynges brothir sone , pardee ; And though he were a pore bachiller , Syn he hath served you so many a yeer , And had for ...
... housbond and for lord : Lene me youre hand , for this is oure acord . Let see now of your wommanly pité . He is a kynges brothir sone , pardee ; And though he were a pore bachiller , Syn he hath served you so many a yeer , And had for ...
Page 126
... housbond schal not be inquisityf Of Goddes pryveté , ne of his wyf . So that he may fynde Goddes foysoun there , Of the remenaunt needeth nought enquere . " What schuld I seye , but that this proud Myllere He nolde his wordes for no man ...
... housbond schal not be inquisityf Of Goddes pryveté , ne of his wyf . So that he may fynde Goddes foysoun there , Of the remenaunt needeth nought enquere . " What schuld I seye , but that this proud Myllere He nolde his wordes for no man ...
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... very beautiful coin . Specimens are engraved in Ruding's Annals of the Coinage . It was coined in the Tower of London , the place of the principal London mint . Whil that hir housbond was at Oseneye , As clerkes 130 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... very beautiful coin . Specimens are engraved in Ruding's Annals of the Coinage . It was coined in the Tower of London , the place of the principal London mint . Whil that hir housbond was at Oseneye , As clerkes 130 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
Page 131
... housbond is so ful of jelousie , That but ye wayten wel , and be pryvė , I woot right wel I am but deed , " quod sche : " Ye mosten be ful derne as in this caas . " " Therof ne care the nought , " quod Nicholas : " A clerk hath litherly ...
... housbond is so ful of jelousie , That but ye wayten wel , and be pryvė , I woot right wel I am but deed , " quod sche : " Ye mosten be ful derne as in this caas . " " Therof ne care the nought , " quod Nicholas : " A clerk hath litherly ...
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Page xlii - Somtyme with the lord of Palatye, Ageyn another hethen in Turkye : And evermore he hadde a sovereyn prys. And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yet no vileinye ne sayde 70 In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight.
Page 17 - PERSOUN of a toun ; But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 2 - But sore 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 5 - Ful swetely herde he confessioun, And plesaunt was his absolucioun; He was an esy man to yeve penaunce Ther as he wiste...
Page 20 - Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre, 550 Or breke it, at a renning, with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Page 78 - Ligurge him-self, the grete king of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face. The cercles of his eyen in his heed, They gloweden...
Page 6 - 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 103 - What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.
Page 7 - But he was lyk a maister or a pope. Of double worstede was his semycope, That rounded as a belle out of the presse. Somwhat he lipsed for his wantownesse To make his Englissh sweete upon his tonge.
Page 18 - He sette nat his benefice to hyre, And leet his sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, un-to seynt Poules, To seken him a chaunterie for soules...