The Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The Knight's Tale. The Nun's Priest's TaleMacmillan Company, 1922 |
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... seyn , a monk out of his cloistre . But thilke text held he nat worth an oistre . And I seyde his opinioun was good . What sholde he studie , and make himselven wood , Upon a book in cloistre alwey to poure , Or swinken with his handes ...
... seyn , a monk out of his cloistre . But thilke text held he nat worth an oistre . And I seyde his opinioun was good . What sholde he studie , and make himselven wood , Upon a book in cloistre alwey to poure , Or swinken with his handes ...
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... seyn , I noot how men him calle . A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also , That unto logik hadde long y - go . As lene was his hors as is a rake , And he nas nat right fat , I undertake , But loked holwe , and therto soberly . Ful thredbare ...
... seyn , I noot how men him calle . A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also , That unto logik hadde long y - go . As lene was his hors as is a rake , And he nas nat right fat , I undertake , But loked holwe , and therto soberly . Ful thredbare ...
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... seyn , that telleth in this cas Tales of best sentence and most solas , Shal han a soper at our aller ° cost Here in this place sitting by this post Whan that we come agayn fro Caunterbury . And for to make yow the more mery I wol ...
... seyn , that telleth in this cas Tales of best sentence and most solas , Shal han a soper at our aller ° cost Here in this place sitting by this post Whan that we come agayn fro Caunterbury . And for to make yow the more mery I wol ...
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... . For which thou art y - bounden as a knight To helpen me , if it lay in thy might , Or elles artow fals , I dar wel seyn . ' This Arcite ful proudly spak ageyn , 1130 1135 1140 1145 1150 " Thou shalt , ' quod he , ' be THE KNIGHT'S TALE ...
... . For which thou art y - bounden as a knight To helpen me , if it lay in thy might , Or elles artow fals , I dar wel seyn . ' This Arcite ful proudly spak ageyn , 1130 1135 1140 1145 1150 " Thou shalt , ' quod he , ' be THE KNIGHT'S TALE ...
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... seyn ? thou wistest nat yet now Whether she be a womman or goddesse ! Thyn is affeccioun of holinesse , And myn is love as to a creature ; For which I tolde thee myn aventure As to my cosin and my brother sworn . I pose that thou ...
... seyn ? thou wistest nat yet now Whether she be a womman or goddesse ! Thyn is affeccioun of holinesse , And myn is love as to a creature ; For which I tolde thee myn aventure As to my cosin and my brother sworn . I pose that thou ...
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Page 1 - WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Page 274 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Page 23 - 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 192 - The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (So priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes...
Page 4 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.
Page 147 - Or elles, if free choys be graunted me To do that same thing, or do it noght, Though god forwoot it, er that it was wroght ; Or if his witing streyneth nevere a del But by necessitee condicionel.
Page 21 - Or with a bretherhed to been withholde; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it nat miscarie ; He was a shepherde and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful man nat despitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discreet and benigne.
Page 13 - Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
Page 24 - Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace, That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace The wisdom of an heep of lerned men?