The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... doun many a doughty man , 1210 Fraunchyse . And next him daunced dame FRAUN- CHYSE , Arrayed in ful noble gyse . She was not broun ne dun of hewe , But whyt as snowe y - fallen newe . Hir nose was wrought at poynt devys , 1215 For it ...
... doun many a doughty man , 1210 Fraunchyse . And next him daunced dame FRAUN- CHYSE , Arrayed in ful noble gyse . She was not broun ne dun of hewe , But whyt as snowe y - fallen newe . Hir nose was wrought at poynt devys , 1215 For it ...
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... doun on knees he gan to falle , 1465 And forth his heed and nekke out- straughte 1515 To seen the cristal in the welle , That shewed. And pondred , as men had it peynt , 1436 With many a fresh and sondry flour , That casten up ful good ...
... doun on knees he gan to falle , 1465 And forth his heed and nekke out- straughte 1515 To seen the cristal in the welle , That shewed. And pondred , as men had it peynt , 1436 With many a fresh and sondry flour , That casten up ful good ...
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... I drow to desperaunce , 1870 Now were they esy , now where they wood , In hem I felte both harm and good ; Now sore without aleggement , And with that covenaunt yeld I me , Anoon doun 20 [ FRAGMENT B. The Romaunt of the Rose .
... I drow to desperaunce , 1870 Now were they esy , now where they wood , In hem I felte both harm and good ; Now sore without aleggement , And with that covenaunt yeld I me , Anoon doun 20 [ FRAGMENT B. The Romaunt of the Rose .
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... If 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 .
... If 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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... doun on knees she sat anoon , And tweep , that pite was to here . ' A ! mercy ! swete lady dere ! ' Quod she to Juno , hir goddesse ; ' Help me out of this distresse , And yeve me grace my lord to see Sone , or wite wher - so he be , Or ...
... doun on knees she sat anoon , And tweep , that pite was to here . ' A ! mercy ! swete lady dere ! ' Quod she to Juno , hir goddesse ; ' Help me out of this distresse , And yeve me grace my lord to see Sone , or wite wher - so he be , Or ...
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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.