The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 1Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... coude he sitte on hors , and fayre ride . He coude songes make , and wel endite , Juste and eke dance , and wel pourtraie and write . So hote he loved , that by nightertale He slep no more than doth the nightingale . Curteis he was ...
... coude he sitte on hors , and fayre ride . He coude songes make , and wel endite , Juste and eke dance , and wel pourtraie and write . So hote he loved , that by nightertale He slep no more than doth the nightingale . Curteis he was ...
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... coude she carie a morsel , and wel kepe , Thatte no drope ne fell upon hire brest . In curtesie was sette ful moche hire lest . Hire over lippe wiped she so clene , That in hire cuppe was no ferthing sene Of grese , whan she dronken ...
... coude she carie a morsel , and wel kepe , Thatte no drope ne fell upon hire brest . In curtesie was sette ful moche hire lest . Hire over lippe wiped she so clene , That in hire cuppe was no ferthing sene Of grese , whan she dronken ...
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... coude he singe and plaien on a rote . Of yeddinges he bare utterly the pris . His nekke was white as is the flour de lis . Thereto he strong was as a champioun , And knew wel the tavernes in every toun . And every hosteler and gay ...
... coude he singe and plaien on a rote . Of yeddinges he bare utterly the pris . His nekke was white as is the flour de lis . Thereto he strong was as a champioun , And knew wel the tavernes in every toun . And every hosteler and gay ...
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... coude as it hadde ben a whelp , In lovedayes , ther coude he mochel help . For ther was he nat like a cloisterere , With thredbare cope , as is a poure scolere , But he was like a maister or a pope . Of double worsted was his semicope ...
... coude as it hadde ben a whelp , In lovedayes , ther coude he mochel help . For ther was he nat like a cloisterere , With thredbare cope , as is a poure scolere , But he was like a maister or a pope . Of double worsted was his semicope ...
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... coude endite , and make a thing , Ther coude no wight pinche at his writing . And every statute coude he plaine by rote . He rode but homely in a medlee cote , Girt with a seint of silk , with barres smale . Of his array tell I no ...
... coude endite , and make a thing , Ther coude no wight pinche at his writing . And every statute coude he plaine by rote . He rode but homely in a medlee cote , Girt with a seint of silk , with barres smale . Of his array tell I no ...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 32 Ezekiel Sanford,Robert Walsh, Jr. No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 32 - A good man ther was of religioun, That was a poure PERSONE of a toun: But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, . That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 123 - Allas! the shorte throte, the tendre mouth, Maketh that est and west and north and south, In erthe, in eir, in water, men to-swinke To gete a glotoun deyntee mete and drinke! Of this matere, O Paul, wel canstow trete: " Mete un-to wombe, and wombe eek un-to mete, Shal God destroyen bothe,
Page 26 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 18 - In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste.
Page 20 - Cristofre on his brest of silver shene. An home he bare, the baudrik was of grene. A forster was he sothely as I gesse.
Page 32 - In sikenesse and in mischief to visite The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite, Upon his fete, and in his hand a staf.
Page 39 - He had a crois of laton ful of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones. But with these relikes, whanne that he fond A poure persone dwelling up on- lond, Upon a day he gat him more moneie Than that the persone gat in monethes tweie. And thus with fained flattering and japes, He made the persone, and the peple, his apes.
Page 33 - But in his teching discrete and benigne. To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse : But it were any persone obstinat, What so he were of highe, or low estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones.
Page 22 - He yave not of the text a pulled hen, That saith, that hunters ben not holy men...
Page 40 - And of manhod him lakkede right naught. Eek therto he was right a mery man, And after soper pleyen he bigan, And spak of mirthe amonges othere thinges, Whan that we hadde maad our rekeninges; 760 And seyde thus...