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... Lady 60 The Parlement of Foules 77 Troilus and Criseyde 96 The Hous of Fame 100 The Legende of Good Women IIO Envoi to Scogan 203 Envoi to Bukton 205 Truth 206 Compleynt of Chaucer to his Purse 208 CHAUCER & HIS POETRY HE literature of ...
... Lady 60 The Parlement of Foules 77 Troilus and Criseyde 96 The Hous of Fame 100 The Legende of Good Women IIO Envoi to Scogan 203 Envoi to Bukton 205 Truth 206 Compleynt of Chaucer to his Purse 208 CHAUCER & HIS POETRY HE literature of ...
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... lady travelled much ; and what he saw on these journeys must have impressed the sensitive nature of the poet deeply , especially at his plastic age . this time he had probably discovered his talent By = S e for verse , and no doubt his ...
... lady travelled much ; and what he saw on these journeys must have impressed the sensitive nature of the poet deeply , especially at his plastic age . this time he had probably discovered his talent By = S e for verse , and no doubt his ...
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... lady of high degree seems to have bitten him ; and the grave demeanour which often turned his humour into melancholy is in that case readily accounted for . Love - making , not too nice or fastidious , was , indeed , the staple ...
... lady of high degree seems to have bitten him ; and the grave demeanour which often turned his humour into melancholy is in that case readily accounted for . Love - making , not too nice or fastidious , was , indeed , the staple ...
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... ladies , allegorical 1 Ten Brink , in his masterly study of Chaucer , dates Chaucer's translation about 1379-80 . In all probability , so long a work was taken up and laid aside frequently , and issued in batches . A mediæval manuscript ...
... ladies , allegorical 1 Ten Brink , in his masterly study of Chaucer , dates Chaucer's translation about 1379-80 . In all probability , so long a work was taken up and laid aside frequently , and issued in batches . A mediæval manuscript ...
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... ladies , named Philippa Chaucer . This lady is also referred to in 1372 as belonging to the household of the Duchess of ... lady referred to in the Countess of Ulster's household accounts of 1357 as Philippa Pan ' , on whose behalf the ...
... ladies , named Philippa Chaucer . This lady is also referred to in 1372 as belonging to the household of the Duchess of ... lady referred to in the Countess of Ulster's household accounts of 1357 as Philippa Pan ' , on whose behalf the ...
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Page 166 - What sholde I moore unto this tale sayn ? The peple out sterte and caste the cart to grounde, And in the myddel of the dong they founde The dede man, that mordred was al newe. " O blisful God, that art so just and trewe ! Lo, how that thou biwreyest...
Page 130 - And she was cleped madame Eglentyne. Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely...
Page 127 - A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
Page 135 - As leene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.
Page 138 - And if ther dide, certeyn so wrooth was she That she was out of alle charitee. Hir coverchiefs...
Page 164 - graunt mercy of youre loore, But nathelees, as touchyng Daun Catoun, That hath of wysdom swich a greet renoun, Though that he bad no dremes for to drede, By God, men may in olde bookes rede Of many a man moore of...
Page 143 - Now, lordinges, trewely, Ye been to me right welcome hertely: For by my trouthe, if that I shal nat lye, I ne saugh this yeer so mery a companye At ones in this herberwe as is now. Fayn wolde I doon yow mirthe, wiste I how. And of a mirthe I am right now bithoght, To doon yow ese, and it shal coste noght.
Page 138 - And yet he was but esy of. dispence; He kepte that he wan in pestilence; For gold in phisik is a cordial : Therfore he lovede gold in special. A good WIF was ther OF biside BATHE, 445 But she was somdel deef, and that was scathe. Of clooth-makyng she hadde swich an haunt, She passed hem of Ypres and of Gaunt.
Page 133 - A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. His heed was balled, that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he hadde been enoynt. He was a lord ful fat and in good poynt...
Page 132 - A manly man, to been an abbot able. Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable: And, whan he rood, men mighte his brydel here Ginglen in a whistling wind...