The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 1Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... speke of phisike , and of surgerie : For he was grounded in astronomie . He kept his patient a ful gret del In houres by his magike naturel . Wel coude he fortunen the ascendent Of his images for his patient . He knew the cause of every ...
... speke of phisike , and of surgerie : For he was grounded in astronomie . He kept his patient a ful gret del In houres by his magike naturel . Wel coude he fortunen the ascendent Of his images for his patient . He knew the cause of every ...
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... speke as nouthe . And thries hadde she ben at Jerusaleme . She hadde passed many a strange streme . At Rome she hadde ben , and at Boloine , In Galice at Seint James , and at Coloine . She coude moche of wandring by the way . Gat ...
... speke as nouthe . And thries hadde she ben at Jerusaleme . She hadde passed many a strange streme . At Rome she hadde ben , and at Boloine , In Galice at Seint James , and at Coloine . She coude moche of wandring by the way . Gat ...
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... speke , and crie as he were wood . And whan that he wel dronken had the win , Than wold he speken no word but Latin . A fewe termes coude he , two or three , That he had lerned out of som decree ; No wonder is , he herd it all the day ...
... speke , and crie as he were wood . And whan that he wel dronken had the win , Than wold he speken no word but Latin . A fewe termes coude he , two or three , That he had lerned out of som decree ; No wonder is , he herd it all the day ...
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... speke in this matere , To tellen you hir wordes and hir chere ; Ne though I speke hir wordes proprely . For this D 2 SELECT POEMS . 41.
... speke in this matere , To tellen you hir wordes and hir chere ; Ne though I speke hir wordes proprely . For this D 2 SELECT POEMS . 41.
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... speke he never so rudely and so large ; Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe , Or feinen thinges , or finden wordes newe . He may not spare , although he were his brother . He moste as wel sayn o word , as an other . Crist spake ...
... speke he never so rudely and so large ; Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe , Or feinen thinges , or finden wordes newe . He may not spare , although he were his brother . He moste as wel sayn o word , as an other . Crist spake ...
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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...