The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His WorksMacmillan and Company, 1894 - 881 pages |
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... never a del ; For certeynly it were hir loth To weren ofte that ilke cloth ; And if it were forwered , she 235 ... never lough , Nor never wel in herte ferde But - if she outher saugh or herde 250 Som greet mischaunce , or greet disese ...
... never a del ; For certeynly it were hir loth To weren ofte that ilke cloth ; And if it were forwered , she 235 ... never lough , Nor never wel in herte ferde But - if she outher saugh or herde 250 Som greet mischaunce , or greet disese ...
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... never a wikked dede , Whan men of hir taken non hede ; And maketh hir outward precious , With pale visage and pitous , 420 That to us semeth sikerly And semeth a simple creature ; That it in oon point dwelleth ever , But ther nis no ...
... never a wikked dede , Whan men of hir taken non hede ; And maketh hir outward precious , With pale visage and pitous , 420 That to us semeth sikerly And semeth a simple creature ; That it in oon point dwelleth ever , But ther nis no ...
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... never shepherde therin . Into that gardyn , wel [ y- ] wrought , Who - so that me coude have brought , By fladdre , or elles by degree , 485 490 It wolde wel have lyked me . For swich solace , swich joye , and play , I trowe that never ...
... never shepherde therin . Into that gardyn , wel [ y- ] wrought , Who - so that me coude have brought , By fladdre , or elles by degree , 485 490 It wolde wel have lyked me . For swich solace , swich joye , and play , I trowe that never ...
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... never a del , But it me lykede right wel That Curtesye me cleped so , And bad me on the daunce go . For if I hadde durst , certeyn I wolde have caroled right fayn , As man that was to daunce blythe . Than gan I loken ofte sythe The shap ...
... never a del , But it me lykede right wel That Curtesye me cleped so , And bad me on the daunce go . For if I hadde durst , certeyn I wolde have caroled right fayn , As man that was to daunce blythe . Than gan I loken ofte sythe The shap ...
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... 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 here , He may not holde his tresour dere . For by ensample I telle this ...
... 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 here , He may not holde his tresour dere . For by ensample I telle this ...
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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.