The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 1Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... thou , Robin , hevest of the dore : He shal out of his studying , as I gesse . " And to the chambre dore he gan him dresse . His knave was a strong carl for the nones , And by the haspe he haf it of at ones ; Into the flore the dore ...
... thou , Robin , hevest of the dore : He shal out of his studying , as I gesse . " And to the chambre dore he gan him dresse . His knave was a strong carl for the nones , And by the haspe he haf it of at ones ; Into the flore the dore ...
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... Thou shalt upon thy trouthe swere me here , That to no wight thou shalt my conseil wrey : For it is Cristes conseil that I say , And if thou tell it man , thou art forlore : For this vengeance thou shalt have therefore , That if thou wreye ...
... Thou shalt upon thy trouthe swere me here , That to no wight thou shalt my conseil wrey : For it is Cristes conseil that I say , And if thou tell it man , thou art forlore : For this vengeance thou shalt have therefore , That if thou wreye ...
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... thou wolt werken after lore and rede ; Thou maist not werken after thin owen hede . For thus saith Salomon , that was ful trewe ; Werke all by conseil , and thou shalt not rewe . And if thou werken wolt by good conseil , I undertake ...
... thou wolt werken after lore and rede ; Thou maist not werken after thin owen hede . For thus saith Salomon , that was ful trewe ; Werke all by conseil , and thou shalt not rewe . And if thou werken wolt by good conseil , I undertake ...
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... thou heng hem in the roofe ful hie , That no man of our purveyance espie : And whan thou hast don thus as I have said , And hast our vitaille faire in hem ylaid , And eke an axe to smite the cord a - two Whan that the water cometh ...
... thou heng hem in the roofe ful hie , That no man of our purveyance espie : And whan thou hast don thus as I have said , And hast our vitaille faire in hem ylaid , And eke an axe to smite the cord a - two Whan that the water cometh ...
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... thou moste hangen fer a - twinne , For that betwixen you shal be no sinne , No more in loking than ther shal in dede . This ordinance is said ; go , God thee spede . To - morwe at night , whan men ben all aslepe , Into our kneding ...
... thou moste hangen fer a - twinne , For that betwixen you shal be no sinne , No more in loking than ther shal in dede . This ordinance is said ; go , God thee spede . To - morwe at night , whan men ben all aslepe , Into our kneding ...
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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...