The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text with Illustrative Notes, Volume 24Percy Society, 1847 - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
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... unto his owen makyng ; for I fynde many of the sayd bookes , whiche wryters have abrydgyd it , and many thynges left out , and in some places have sette certayn versys that he never made ne sette in hys booke ; of whyche bookes so ...
... unto his owen makyng ; for I fynde many of the sayd bookes , whiche wryters have abrydgyd it , and many thynges left out , and in some places have sette certayn versys that he never made ne sette in hys booke ; of whyche bookes so ...
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... unto no maner wight . He was a verray perfight gentil knight . But for to telle you of his aray : His hors was good , but he ne was nought gay . 74 53.- Pruce . The knights of the Teutonic order , in Prussia , were engaged in continual ...
... unto no maner wight . He was a verray perfight gentil knight . But for to telle you of his aray : His hors was good , but he ne was nought gay . 74 53.- Pruce . The knights of the Teutonic order , in Prussia , were engaged in continual ...
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... Unto his ordre he was a noble post . Ful wel biloved , and famulier was he , With frankeleyns over al in his cuntré , And eek with worthi wommen of the toun : 217 For he hadde power of confessioun , As seyde himself , more than a curat ...
... Unto his ordre he was a noble post . Ful wel biloved , and famulier was he , With frankeleyns over al in his cuntré , And eek with worthi wommen of the toun : 217 For he hadde power of confessioun , As seyde himself , more than a curat ...
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... unto such a worthi man as he Acorded not , as by his faculté , To have with sike lazars aqueyntaunce . It is not honest , it may not avaunce , For to delen with such poraile , But al with riche and sellers of vitaille . And over al ...
... unto such a worthi man as he Acorded not , as by his faculté , To have with sike lazars aqueyntaunce . It is not honest , it may not avaunce , For to delen with such poraile , But al with riche and sellers of vitaille . And over al ...
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... unto logik hadde longe i - go . Al so lene was his hors as is a rake , And he was not right fat , I undertake ; But lokede holwe , and therto soburly . Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy , For he hadde nought geten him yit a ...
... unto logik hadde longe i - go . Al so lene was his hors as is a rake , And he was not right fat , I undertake ; But lokede holwe , and therto soburly . Ful thredbare was his overest courtepy , For he hadde nought geten him yit a ...
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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...