Chaucer's Canterbury PilgrimageWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1892 - 283 pages |
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... children were born to him , Thomas , Elisabeth , and Lewis : but of his family life , which is usually regarded as not having been of the happiest , we know very little , except that for the use of his boy Lewis he wrote INTRODUCTORY ...
... children were born to him , Thomas , Elisabeth , and Lewis : but of his family life , which is usually regarded as not having been of the happiest , we know very little , except that for the use of his boy Lewis he wrote INTRODUCTORY ...
Page 45
... children weren aferd . Ther nas quyksilver , litarge , ne bremstoon , Boras , ceruce , ne oille of tartre noon , Ne oynément that woldé clense and byte , That him mighte helpen of his whelkés white , Ne of the knobbés sittyng on his ...
... children weren aferd . Ther nas quyksilver , litarge , ne bremstoon , Boras , ceruce , ne oille of tartre noon , Ne oynément that woldé clense and byte , That him mighte helpen of his whelkés white , Ne of the knobbés sittyng on his ...
Page 92
... children fled from him in terror wherever he ap- peared . It was round and red and fiery , 2 and was a mass of scabs and corruption , caused by , the vices in which he indulged , which no remedies , even the sharpest and most biting ...
... children fled from him in terror wherever he ap- peared . It was round and red and fiery , 2 and was a mass of scabs and corruption , caused by , the vices in which he indulged , which no remedies , even the sharpest and most biting ...
Page 137
... child Constance , Thy youngé daughter , fostred up so softe , And ye , my mother , my sovràn plesaùnce Over allé thing , excepting Christe on lofte , Constance , your child , her recommendeth ofte Unto your grace , for I shall to Syriè ...
... child Constance , Thy youngé daughter , fostred up so softe , And ye , my mother , my sovràn plesaùnce Over allé thing , excepting Christe on lofte , Constance , your child , her recommendeth ofte Unto your grace , for I shall to Syriè ...
Page 143
... child that had been born was a fiendlike creature , and that all the land was filled with horror and loathing of both mother and child . Great was Alla's grief when he received the news . THE MAN OF LAWES TALE . 143.
... child that had been born was a fiendlike creature , and that all the land was filled with horror and loathing of both mother and child . Great was Alla's grief when he received the news . THE MAN OF LAWES TALE . 143.
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