The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His WorksMacmillan and Company, 1894 - 881 pages |
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... lord may have no maner vice That greveth more than avarice . For nigard never with strengthe of hond May winne him greet lordship or lond . For freendes al to fewe hath he To doon his wil perfourmed be . And who - so wol have freendes ...
... lord may have no maner vice That greveth more than avarice . For nigard never with strengthe of hond May winne him greet lordship or lond . For freendes al to fewe hath he To doon his wil perfourmed be . And who - so wol have freendes ...
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... lord That hath the herte in his tresor ; Outrage it were to asken more . ' 6 2080 2085 Than of his aumener he drough A litel keye , fetys y - nough , Which was of gold polisshed clere , And seide to me , ' With this keye here Thyn herte ...
... lord That hath the herte in his tresor ; Outrage it were to asken more . ' 6 2080 2085 Than of his aumener he drough A litel keye , fetys y - nough , Which was of gold polisshed clere , And seide to me , ' With this keye here Thyn herte ...
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... lord ! why nil ye me socoure , The 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 ...
... lord ! why nil ye me socoure , The 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 ...
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... lord , 4590 Canst thou yit chese , lat me see , What best thy socour mighte be ? That maketh thee thral for thy reward , Which ay renewith thy turment , 4641 With foly so he hath thee blent . Thou felle in mischeef thilke day , Whan ...
... lord , 4590 Canst thou yit chese , lat me see , What best thy socour mighte be ? That maketh thee thral for thy reward , Which ay renewith thy turment , 4641 With foly so he hath thee blent . Thou felle in mischeef thilke day , Whan ...
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... lord as he , Raisoun . Knowist him no more ? ' And maister of sich seignory . ' L'Amaunt , ' Nay , certis , I , Save ... lord have knowleching . + An hunger ful of habundaunce , 4725 For if thou knewe him , out of dout , Lightly thou ...
... lord as he , Raisoun . Knowist him no more ? ' And maister of sich seignory . ' L'Amaunt , ' Nay , certis , I , Save ... lord have knowleching . + An hunger ful of habundaunce , 4725 For if thou knewe him , out of dout , Lightly thou ...
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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.