The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale from the Canterbury TalesClarendon Press, 1880 - 221 pages |
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... berd , In motteleye , and high on horse he sat , Uppon his heed a Flaundrisch bevere hat ; His botes clapsed faire and fetysly . His resons he spak ful solempnely , Sownynge alway thencres of his wynnynge . He wolde the see were kept ...
... berd , In motteleye , and high on horse he sat , Uppon his heed a Flaundrisch bevere hat ; His botes clapsed faire and fetysly . His resons he spak ful solempnely , Sownynge alway thencres of his wynnynge . He wolde the see were kept ...
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... berd ben schake . He knew wel alle the havenes , as thei were , From Gootlond to the cape of Fynystere , And every cryke in Bretayne and in Spayne ; His barge y - cleped was the Maudelayne . With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISIK , In al ...
... berd ben schake . He knew wel alle the havenes , as thei were , From Gootlond to the cape of Fynystere , And every cryke in Bretayne and in Spayne ; His barge y - cleped was the Maudelayne . With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISIK , In al ...
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... berd as ony sowe or fox was reed , And therto brood , as though it were a spade . Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte , and theron stood a tuft of heres , Reede as the berstles of a sowes eeres . His nose - thurles blake were ...
... berd as ony sowe or fox was reed , And therto brood , as though it were a spade . Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte , and theron stood a tuft of heres , Reede as the berstles of a sowes eeres . His nose - thurles blake were ...
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... berd was schave as neigh as evere he can . His heer was by his eres ful round i - shorn . His top was docked lyk a preest biforn . Ful longe wern his legges , and ful lene , Y - lik a staf , ther was no calf y - sene . Wel cowde he kepe ...
... berd was schave as neigh as evere he can . His heer was by his eres ful round i - shorn . His top was docked lyk a preest biforn . Ful longe wern his legges , and ful lene , Y - lik a staf , ther was no calf y - sene . Wel cowde he kepe ...
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... berd ; Of his visage children weren aferd . Ther nas quyksilver , litarge , ne bremstoon , Boras , ceruce , ne oille of tartre noon , Ne oynement that wolde clense and byte , That him mighte helpen of his whelkes white , Ne of the ...
... berd ; Of his visage children weren aferd . Ther nas quyksilver , litarge , ne bremstoon , Boras , ceruce , ne oille of tartre noon , Ne oynement that wolde clense and byte , That him mighte helpen of his whelkes white , Ne of the ...
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