The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... Anon to do me here homage . 1990 1995 2005 2010 And sithe [ n ] kisse thou shalt my mouth , Which to no vilayn was never couth 2000 For to aproche it , ne for to touche ; For sauf + to cherlis I ne vouche That they shulle never neigh it ...
... Anon to do me here homage . 1990 1995 2005 2010 And sithe [ n ] kisse thou shalt my mouth , Which to no vilayn was never couth 2000 For to aproche it , ne for to touche ; For sauf + to cherlis I ne vouche That they shulle never neigh it ...
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... anon - right To forther me with al hir might , And helpe in worde and in dede , For wel they saugh that it was nede . First , of hir grace , dame Fraunchyse Hath taken [ word ] of this empryse : She seide , ' Daunger , gret wrong ye do ...
... anon - right To forther me with al hir might , And helpe in worde and in dede , For wel they saugh that it was nede . First , of hir grace , dame Fraunchyse Hath taken [ word ] of this empryse : She seide , ' Daunger , gret wrong ye do ...
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... anon , ' Al is not gospel , out of doute , With spere in thyne arest alway ; There muse , musard , al the day . Thou wakest night and day for thought ; Y - wis , thy traveyl is for nought . I swere yow , sir , it is gabbing ! I trowe ye ...
... anon , ' Al is not gospel , out of doute , With spere in thyne arest alway ; There muse , musard , al the day . Thou wakest night and day for thought ; Y - wis , thy traveyl is for nought . I swere yow , sir , it is gabbing ! I trowe ye ...
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... ye wol you now confesse , 7695 And leve your sinnes more and lesse , Without abood , knele doun anon , And you shal have absolucion . ' 7698 Explicit . THE MINOR POEMS . I. AN A. B. C. Incipit 78 [ FRAGMENT C. The Romaunt of the Rose .
... ye wol you now confesse , 7695 And leve your sinnes more and lesse , Without abood , knele doun anon , And you shal have absolucion . ' 7698 Explicit . THE MINOR POEMS . I. AN A. B. C. Incipit 78 [ FRAGMENT C. The Romaunt of the Rose .
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... Anon her herte + gan to erme ; : 95 But I mowe of my lorde here ! ' Such sorwe this lady to her took That trewely I , which made this book , Had swich pite and swich rowthe To rede hir sorwe , that , by my trowthe , I ferde the worse al ...
... Anon her herte + gan to erme ; : 95 But I mowe of my lorde here ! ' Such sorwe this lady to her took That trewely I , which made this book , Had swich pite and swich rowthe To rede hir sorwe , that , by my trowthe , I ferde the worse al ...
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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.