The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His WorksMacmillan and Company, 1894 - 881 pages |
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... ofte sythe The shap , the bodies , and the cheres , The countenaunce and the maneres Of alle the folk that daunced there , And I shal telle what they were . Mirthe . 800 805 810 815 Ful fair was Mirthe , ful ong and high ; A fairer man ...
... ofte sythe The shap , the bodies , and the cheres , The countenaunce and the maneres Of alle the folk that daunced there , And I shal telle what they were . Mirthe . 800 805 810 815 Ful fair was Mirthe , ful ong and high ; A fairer man ...
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... ofte be . And let no filthe upon thee be . Thy nailes blak if thou mayst see , Voide it awey deliverly , And kembe thyn heed right jolily . + Fard not thy visage in no wyse , For that of love is not th ' empryse ; For love doth haten ...
... ofte be . And let no filthe upon thee be . Thy nailes blak if thou mayst see , Voide it awey deliverly , And kembe thyn heed right jolily . + Fard not thy visage in no wyse , For that of love is not th ' empryse ; For love doth haten ...
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... ofte whan thou bithenkist theo Of thy loving , wher - so thou be , Fro folk thou must depart in hy , That noon perceyve thy malady , But hyde thyn harm thou must alone , 2395 And go forth sole , and make thy mone . Thou shalt no whyl be ...
... ofte whan thou bithenkist theo Of thy loving , wher - so thou be , Fro folk thou must depart in hy , That noon perceyve thy malady , But hyde thyn harm thou must alone , 2395 And go forth sole , and make thy mone . Thou shalt no whyl be ...
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... ofte on every syde ; Now downward groffe , and now upright , And walowe in wo the longe night ; Thyne armis shalt thou sprede abrede , As man in werre were + forwerreyd . Than shal thee come a remembraunce Of hir shape and hir ...
... ofte on every syde ; Now downward groffe , and now upright , And walowe in wo the longe night ; Thyne armis shalt thou sprede abrede , As man in werre were + forwerreyd . Than shal thee come a remembraunce Of hir shape and hir ...
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... ofte I have ben in his caas . A feloun first though that he be , Aftir thou shalt him souple see . Of long passed I knew him wele ; Ungoodly first though men him fele , He wol meek aftir , in his bering , Been , for service and ...
... ofte I have ben in his caas . A feloun first though that he be , Aftir thou shalt him souple see . Of long passed I knew him wele ; Ungoodly first though men him fele , He wol meek aftir , in his bering , Been , for service and ...
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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.