The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His WorksMacmillan and Company, 1894 - 881 pages |
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... joye on even or morowe ; For joye is contraire unto sorowe . Elde . 300 ELDE was peynted after this , 340 345 That shorter was a foot , y - wis , 4 [ FRAGMENT A. The Romaunt of the Rose .
... joye on even or morowe ; For joye is contraire unto sorowe . Elde . 300 ELDE was peynted after this , 340 345 That shorter was a foot , y - wis , 4 [ FRAGMENT A. The Romaunt of the Rose .
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... joye was , y - wis , Whan that she yaf , and seide ' have this , ' Not Avarice , the foule captyf , 1155 Was half to grype so ententyf , As Largesse is to yeve and spende . And god y - nough alwey hir sende , So that the more she yaf ...
... joye was , y - wis , Whan that she yaf , and seide ' have this , ' Not Avarice , the foule captyf , 1155 Was half to grype so ententyf , As Largesse is to yeve and spende . And god y - nough alwey hir sende , So that the more she yaf ...
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... joye anoon therof hadde I , That I forgat my malady . To sene tit hadde I sich delyt , Of sorwe and angre I was al quit , And of my woundes that I had + thar ; For no - thing lyken me might + mar Than dwellen by the roser ay , And ...
... joye anoon therof hadde I , That I forgat my malady . To sene tit hadde I sich delyt , Of sorwe and angre I was al quit , And of my woundes that I had + thar ; For no - thing lyken me might + mar Than dwellen by the roser ay , And ...
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... joye wente to myn herte rote . Whan I had kissed his mouth so swote , I had sich mirthe and sich lyking , 2041 It cured me of languisshing . He askid of me than hostages : -- ' I have , ' he seide , + tan fele homages Of oon and other ...
... joye wente to myn herte rote . Whan I had kissed his mouth so swote , I had sich mirthe and sich lyking , 2041 It cured me of languisshing . He askid of me than hostages : -- ' I have , ' he seide , + tan fele homages Of oon and other ...
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... joye , I trowe , that I langoure ? The deth I wolde me shulde slo Whyl I lye in hir armes two . 2590 2600 2605 2610 Myn harm is hard , withouten wene , 2595 My greet unese ful ofte I mene . But wolde Love do so I might Have fully joye ...
... joye , I trowe , that I langoure ? The deth I wolde me shulde slo Whyl I lye in hir armes two . 2590 2600 2605 2610 Myn harm is hard , withouten wene , 2595 My greet unese ful ofte I mene . But wolde Love do so I might Have fully joye ...
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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.