The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: With Poems Formely Printed Withhis Or Attributed to HimG. Bell and Sons, 1906 |
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... sompnour and a pardoner also , A maunciple , and my self , ther was no mo , The MELLERE was a stout carl for the nones , Ful big he was of braun , and eek of boones ; That prevede wel , for over al ther he cam , At wrastlynge he wolde ...
... sompnour and a pardoner also , A maunciple , and my self , ther was no mo , The MELLERE was a stout carl for the nones , Ful big he was of braun , and eek of boones ; That prevede wel , for over al ther he cam , At wrastlynge he wolde ...
Page 103
... SOMPNOUR was ther with us in that place , Jue 6.320.n. That hadde a fyr - reed cherubynes face , 1 For sawceflem he was , with eyghen narwe . As hoot he was , and leccherous , as a sparwe , With skalled browes blak , and piled berd ; Of ...
... SOMPNOUR was ther with us in that place , Jue 6.320.n. That hadde a fyr - reed cherubynes face , 1 For sawceflem he was , with eyghen narwe . As hoot he was , and leccherous , as a sparwe , With skalled browes blak , and piled berd ; Of ...
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... sompnour bar to him a stif burdoun , Was nevere trompe of half so gret a soun . This pardoner hadde heer as yelwe as wex , But smothe it heng , as doth a strike of flex ; By unces hynge his lokkes that he hadde , And therwith he his ...
... sompnour bar to him a stif burdoun , Was nevere trompe of half so gret a soun . This pardoner hadde heer as yelwe as wex , But smothe it heng , as doth a strike of flex ; By unces hynge his lokkes that he hadde , And therwith he his ...
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... sompnour ! quod the Frere : Now , by my fay , I schal , er that I go , Telle of a sompnour such a tale or tuo , That alle the folke schuln laughen in this place . ' Now , ellis , frere , I byschrew thy face , " " Quod this Sompnour ...
... sompnour ! quod the Frere : Now , by my fay , I schal , er that I go , Telle of a sompnour such a tale or tuo , That alle the folke schuln laughen in this place . ' Now , ellis , frere , I byschrew thy face , " " Quod this Sompnour ...
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... Sompnour , but for honeste No vileyn's worde yit to him spak he . But atte last he sayd unto the wyf , ' Dame , ' quod he , God give yow good ly ! Ye han her touchid , al so mot I the , In scole matier gret difficulte . Ye han sayd ...
... Sompnour , but for honeste No vileyn's worde yit to him spak he . But atte last he sayd unto the wyf , ' Dame , ' quod he , God give yow good ly ! Ye han her touchid , al so mot I the , In scole matier gret difficulte . Ye han sayd ...
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