The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... grete and smalle ; This wyde world hir dredeth alle ; This world is al in hir daungere . Hir court hath many a losengere , And many a traytour envious , That been ful besy and curious For to dispreisen , and to blame That best deserven ...
... grete and smalle ; This wyde world hir dredeth alle ; This world is al in hir daungere . Hir court hath many a losengere , And many a traytour envious , That been ful besy and curious For to dispreisen , and to blame That best deserven ...
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... grete also : And for to kepe out wel the sonne , The croppes were so thikke y - ronne , And every braunch in other + knet , And ful of grene leves + set , That sonne mighte noon descende , Lest [ it ] the tendre grasses shende . Ther ...
... grete also : And for to kepe out wel the sonne , The croppes were so thikke y - ronne , And every braunch in other + knet , And ful of grene leves + set , That sonne mighte noon descende , Lest [ it ] the tendre grasses shende . Ther ...
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... grete . Me thenkith I fele yit in my nose The swete savour of the rose . And now I woot that I mot go So fer the fresshe floures fro , 4110 4115 4120 4125 To me ful welcome were the deeth ; Absens therof , allas , me sleeth ! For whylom ...
... grete . Me thenkith I fele yit in my nose The swete savour of the rose . And now I woot that I mot go So fer the fresshe floures fro , 4110 4115 4120 4125 To me ful welcome were the deeth ; Absens therof , allas , me sleeth ! For whylom ...
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... Grete engynes , † whiche were nigh honde ; And in the kernels , here and there , 4195 Of arblasters gret plentee were . 4210 4215 Than Drede hadde in hir baillye The keping of the conestablerye , Toward the north , I undirstonde , That ...
... Grete engynes , † whiche were nigh honde ; And in the kernels , here and there , 4195 Of arblasters gret plentee were . 4210 4215 Than Drede hadde in hir baillye The keping of the conestablerye , Toward the north , I undirstonde , That ...
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... grete ; But pore folk al quyte I lete . That been not wery to seye wel , 6850 But to do wel , no wille have they ; And they wolde binde on folk alwey , That ben to [ be ] begyled able , 6901 + Burdens that ben importable ; I love no ...
... grete ; But pore folk al quyte I lete . That been not wery to seye wel , 6850 But to do wel , no wille have they ; And they wolde binde on folk alwey , That ben to [ be ] begyled able , 6901 + Burdens that ben importable ; I love no ...
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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.