The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... Crist seith in his evangyle , To gete hem prys in toun a whyle ; And for a litel glorie veine They lesen god and eek his reine . 445 Povert . And alderlast of everichoon , 450 455 And FRAGMENT A. ] 5 The Romaunt of the Rose .
... Crist seith in his evangyle , To gete hem prys in toun a whyle ; And for a litel glorie veine They lesen god and eek his reine . 445 Povert . And alderlast of everichoon , 450 455 And FRAGMENT A. ] 5 The Romaunt of the Rose .
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... Crist , ne his apostles dere , Whyl that they walkede in erthe here , Were never seen her bred begging , 6545 For they nolde beggen for no - thing . 6550 And right thus were men wont to teche ; And in this wyse wolde it preche The ...
... Crist , ne his apostles dere , Whyl that they walkede in erthe here , Were never seen her bred begging , 6545 For they nolde beggen for no - thing . 6550 And right thus were men wont to teche ; And in this wyse wolde it preche The ...
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... Crist seith openly , They have abit of holinesse , And liven in such wikkednesse . 7010 But how so that we begge or pleyne , Outward , lambren semen we , We ben the folk , without lesing , That al thing have without having . Fulle of ...
... Crist seith openly , They have abit of holinesse , And liven in such wikkednesse . 7010 But how so that we begge or pleyne , Outward , lambren semen we , We ben the folk , without lesing , That al thing have without having . Fulle of ...
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... Crist my bretheren dre- deth . 7180 But thilke Gospel Perdurable , That fro the Holy Gost was sent He nis no ful good champioun , That dredeth such similacioun ; Nor that for peyne wole refusen 7230 To turne folk that been miswent . The ...
... Crist my bretheren dre- deth . 7180 But thilke Gospel Perdurable , That fro the Holy Gost was sent He nis no ful good champioun , That dredeth such similacioun ; Nor that for peyne wole refusen 7230 To turne folk that been miswent . The ...
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... Crist it save ! And , so it shulde you nat displese , We wolden , if it were your ese , A short sermoun unto you seyn . ' And Wikked - Tonge answerde ageyn , ' The hous , ' quod he , ' such as ye see , 7501 Shal nat be warned you for me ...
... Crist it save ! And , so it shulde you nat displese , We wolden , if it were your ese , A short sermoun unto you seyn . ' And Wikked - Tonge answerde ageyn , ' The hous , ' quod he , ' such as ye see , 7501 Shal nat be warned you for me ...
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Page 423 - Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte ; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do ? For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste ; And shame it is, if a preest take keep, A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep.
Page 418 - And she was cleped madame Eglentyne. Ful wel she song the service divyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely...
Page 419 - 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.
Page 417 - But natheles, whyl I have tyme and space, 35 Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem...
Page 422 - To speke of phisik and of surgerye; For he was grounded in astronomye.
Page 422 - And yet he was but esy of dispence; He kepte that he wan in pestilence. For gold in phisik is a cordial, Therfore he lovede gold in special.
Page 544 - Now certes, I were worse than a feend, If I to yow wolde harm or vileinye.
Page 426 - And of manhod him lakkede right naught. Eek therto he was right a mery man, And after soper pleyen...
Page 358 - That tabouren in your eres many a soun, Right after hir imaginacioun, 355 To have your daliance, and for envye ; These been the causes, and I shall nat lye. Envye is lavender of the court alway ; For she ne parteth, neither night ne day, Out of the hons of Cesar,- thus seith Dante ; 360 Who-so that goth, algato she wol nat wante.
Page 561 - Now lat us sitte and drinke, and make us merie, And afterward we wol his body berie.