The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... anoon , Ful long and brood , and everydel + Enclos it was , and walled wel , With hye walles embatailled , 135 Portrayed without , and wel entailled 140 With many riche portraitures ; And bothe images and peyntures Gan I biholde bisily ...
... anoon , Ful long and brood , and everydel + Enclos it was , and walled wel , With hye walles embatailled , 135 Portrayed without , and wel entailled 140 With many riche portraitures ; And bothe images and peyntures Gan I biholde bisily ...
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... anoon Unto sir Mirthe gan goon , Ther - as he was , him to solace . And with him , in that lusty place , So fair folk and so fresh hadde he , That whan I saw , I wondred me Fro whennes swich folk mighte come , 690 So faire they weren ...
... anoon Unto sir Mirthe gan goon , Ther - as he was , him to solace . And with him , in that lusty place , So fair folk and so fresh hadde he , That whan I saw , I wondred me Fro whennes swich folk mighte come , 690 So faire they weren ...
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... anoon . But , er she deyde , Ful pitously to god she preyde , That proude - herted Narcisus , That was in love so daungerous , Mighte on a day ben hampred so For love , and been so hoot for wo , That never he mighte joye atteyne ; 1495 ...
... anoon . But , er she deyde , Ful pitously to god she preyde , That proude - herted Narcisus , That was in love so daungerous , Mighte on a day ben hampred so For love , and been so hoot for wo , That never he mighte joye atteyne ; 1495 ...
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... anoon therof hadde I , That I forgat my malady . To sene tit hadde I sich delyt , Of sorwe and angre I was al quit , And of my woundes that I had + thar ; For no - thing lyken me might + mar Than dwellen by the roser ay , And thennes ...
... anoon therof hadde I , That I forgat my malady . To sene tit hadde I sich delyt , Of sorwe and angre I was al quit , And of my woundes that I had + thar ; For no - thing lyken me might + mar Than dwellen by the roser ay , And thennes ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Walter William Skeat. And with that covenaunt yeld I me , Anoon doun kneling upon my knee , 1980 ' Yeld thee , for thou may not escape ! 1930 Profering for to kisse his feet ; And him governe in curtesye With wil and ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Walter William Skeat. And with that covenaunt yeld I me , Anoon doun kneling upon my knee , 1980 ' Yeld thee , for thou may not escape ! 1930 Profering for to kisse his feet ; And him governe in curtesye With wil and ...
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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.