The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale from the Canterbury TalesClarendon Press, 1880 - 221 pages |
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Page ix
... took place , and two or three months later , Blanche , the wife of John of Gaunt , died , at the age of twenty - nine . Chaucer did honour to the memory of his patron's wife in a funeral poem entitled ' The Dethe of Blaunche the ...
... took place , and two or three months later , Blanche , the wife of John of Gaunt , died , at the age of twenty - nine . Chaucer did honour to the memory of his patron's wife in a funeral poem entitled ' The Dethe of Blaunche the ...
Page xiii
... took the reins of government into his own hands ; the Lancastrian party were restored to power , and Chaucer was appointed Clerk of the King's Works at Westmin- Of dytees and of songes glade , The whiche he for my sake made , The land ...
... took the reins of government into his own hands ; the Lancastrian party were restored to power , and Chaucer was appointed Clerk of the King's Works at Westmin- Of dytees and of songes glade , The whiche he for my sake made , The land ...
Page xxxii
... took no inflexion in the genitive singular : this explains such phrases as ' fader day , " ' fader soule , ' ' brother sone , ” ' doughter name . ' 2. The following phrases contain remnants of feminine nouns which originally formed the ...
... took no inflexion in the genitive singular : this explains such phrases as ' fader day , " ' fader soule , ' ' brother sone , ” ' doughter name . ' 2. The following phrases contain remnants of feminine nouns which originally formed the ...
Page 10
... took he most cure and most heede . Not oo word spak he more than was neede , And that was seid in forme and reverence And schort and quyk , and ful of high sentence . Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche , And gladly wolde he lerne ...
... took he most cure and most heede . Not oo word spak he more than was neede , And that was seid in forme and reverence And schort and quyk , and ful of high sentence . Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche , And gladly wolde he lerne ...
Page 13
... took he no keep . If that he faughte , and hadde the heigher hand , By water he sente hem hoom to every land . But of his craft to rekne wel his tydes , His stremes and his daungers him bisides , His herbergh and his mone , his ...
... took he no keep . If that he faughte , and hadde the heigher hand , By water he sente hem hoom to every land . But of his craft to rekne wel his tydes , His stremes and his daungers him bisides , His herbergh and his mone , his ...
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