The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale from the Canterbury TalesClarendon Press, 1880 - 221 pages |
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Page xxv
... Theseus with the Amazons , their submission to him , and his marriage with Hippolyta . Bk . ii . Theseus , having spent two years in Scythia , is re- proached by Perithous in a vision , and immediately returns to Athens with Hippolyta ...
... Theseus with the Amazons , their submission to him , and his marriage with Hippolyta . Bk . ii . Theseus , having spent two years in Scythia , is re- proached by Perithous in a vision , and immediately returns to Athens with Hippolyta ...
Page xxvi
... Theseus , being known to Emilia , though to nobody else ; till after some time he is overheard making his complaint in a wood , to which he usually resorted for that purpose , by Pamphilo , a servant of Palemone . Bk . v . Upon the ...
... Theseus , being known to Emilia , though to nobody else ; till after some time he is overheard making his complaint in a wood , to which he usually resorted for that purpose , by Pamphilo , a servant of Palemone . Bk . v . Upon the ...
Page xxvii
... Theseus , and desires that Palemone may inherit all his pos- sessions and also Emilia . He then takes leave of Palemone and Emilia , to whom he repeats the same request . Their lamen- tations . Arcita orders a sacrifice to Mercury ...
... Theseus , and desires that Palemone may inherit all his pos- sessions and also Emilia . He then takes leave of Palemone and Emilia , to whom he repeats the same request . Their lamen- tations . Arcita orders a sacrifice to Mercury ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Richard Morris. Bk . xii . Theseus proposes to carry into execution Arcita's will by the marriage of Palemone and Emilia . This they both decline for some time in formal ... Theseus proposes to carry into execution ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Richard Morris. Bk . xii . Theseus proposes to carry into execution Arcita's will by the marriage of Palemone and Emilia . This they both decline for some time in formal ... Theseus proposes to carry into execution ...
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... Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour , And in his tyme swich a conquerour , That gretter was ther non under the sonne . Ful many a riche contré hadde he wonne ; That with his wisdam and his chivalrie He conquerede al the regne ...
... Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour , And in his tyme swich a conquerour , That gretter was ther non under the sonne . Ful many a riche contré hadde he wonne ; That with his wisdam and his chivalrie He conquerede al the regne ...
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