The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His WorksMacmillan and Company, 1894 - 881 pages |
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... cause be . I rekke not of pore men , 6855 Hir astate is not worth an hen . Where fyndest thou a swinker of labour Have me unto his confessour ? On folkes shuldres thinges they couchen That they nil with her fingres touchen . ' Amour ...
... cause be . I rekke not of pore men , 6855 Hir astate is not worth an hen . Where fyndest thou a swinker of labour Have me unto his confessour ? On folkes shuldres thinges they couchen That they nil with her fingres touchen . ' Amour ...
Page 99
... cause wherfor that men pleyne ; Or men may deme he pleyneth folily And causeles ; alas ! that am not I ! Wherfor the ground and cause of al my peyne , 160 So as my troubled wit may hit ateyne , I wol reherse ; not for to have redresse ...
... cause wherfor that men pleyne ; Or men may deme he pleyneth folily And causeles ; alas ! that am not I ! Wherfor the ground and cause of al my peyne , 160 So as my troubled wit may hit ateyne , I wol reherse ; not for to have redresse ...
Page 100
... cause of this confusioun ; But he that wroghte hit enfortuned hit So , That every wight that had hit shuld 260 have wo ; And therfor in the worcher was the vyce , And in the covetour that was so nyce . So fareth hit by lovers and by me ...
... cause of this confusioun ; But he that wroghte hit enfortuned hit So , That every wight that had hit shuld 260 have wo ; And therfor in the worcher was the vyce , And in the covetour that was so nyce . So fareth hit by lovers and by me ...
Page 102
... cause of armonye . Than bad he him , sin erthe was so lyte , And ful of torment and of harde grace , 65 That he ne shulde him in the world delyte . Than tolde he him , in certeyn yeres space , That every sterre shulde come into his ...
... cause of armonye . Than bad he him , sin erthe was so lyte , And ful of torment and of harde grace , 65 That he ne shulde him in the world delyte . Than tolde he him , in certeyn yeres space , That every sterre shulde come into his ...
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... cause of thy maladye , and that right grete . Thou hast left for to knowen thy - self , what 75 thou art ; thorugh whiche I have pleynly founden the cause of thy maladye , or elles the entree of recoveringe of thyn hele . For - why ...
... cause of thy maladye , and that right grete . Thou hast left for to knowen thy - self , what 75 thou art ; thorugh whiche I have pleynly founden the cause of thy maladye , or elles the entree of recoveringe of thyn hele . For - why ...
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Page 418 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. Therefore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 415 - To feme halwes, couthe in sondry londes ; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.
Page 546 - But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralitee, good men.
Page 421 - This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte ; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte ; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do...
Page 417 - A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. His heed was balled, that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he had been anoint. He was a lord ful fat and in good point...
Page 416 - Harneised wel, and sharp as point of spere; A Cristofre on his brest of silver shene. An horn he bar, the bawdrik was of grene; A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse. Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, That of hir smyling was ful simple and coy; Hir gretteste ooth was but by se•ynt Loy; 120 And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.
Page 416 - In hope to stonden in his lady grace. Embrouded was he, as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe floures, whyte and rede. 90 Singinge he was, or floytinge, al the day ; He was as fresh as is the month of May.
Page 425 - Shal have 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 my-selven gladly with yow ryde, Eight at myn owne cost, and be your gyde.
Page 416 - For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe. At mete wel y-taught was she with-alle; She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle, Ne wette hir fingres in hir sauce depe.
Page 419 - For his science, and for his heigh renoun Of fees and robes hadde he many oon. So greet a purchasour was nowher noon. Al was fee simple to him in effect, His purchasing mighte nat been infect. 320 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was.