The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... holde ; Ne she was derk ne broun , but bright , 965 And cleer as [ is ] the mone - light , Ageyn whom alle the sterres semen But smale candels , as we demen . Hir flesh was tendre as dewe of flour , Hir chere was simple as byrde in bour ...
... holde ; Ne she was derk ne broun , but bright , 965 And cleer as [ is ] the mone - light , Ageyn whom alle the sterres semen But smale candels , as we demen . Hir flesh was tendre as dewe of flour , Hir chere was simple as byrde in bour ...
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... holde his tresour dere . For by ensample I telle this , Right as an adamaunt , y - wis , Can drawen to him sotilly The yren , that is leyd thereby , So draweth folkes hertes , y - wis , Silver and gold that yeven is . Largesse hadde on ...
... holde his tresour dere . For by ensample I telle this , Right as an adamaunt , y - wis , Can drawen to him sotilly The yren , that is leyd thereby , So draweth folkes hertes , y - wis , Silver and gold that yeven is . Largesse hadde on ...
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... holde you in fable Of al this gardin + delitable . I moot my tonge stinten nede , For I ne may , withouten drede , Naught tellen you the beautee al , Ne half the bountee therewithal . 1440 I wente on right honde and on left 1445 Aboute ...
... holde you in fable Of al this gardin + delitable . I moot my tonge stinten nede , For I ne may , withouten drede , Naught tellen you the beautee al , Ne half the bountee therewithal . 1440 I wente on right honde and on left 1445 Aboute ...
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... holde 1825 The faire roser to biholde ; For Love me yaf sich hardement For to fulfille his commaundement . I rought of dethe ne of lyf , Whither that love wolde me dryf , If me a martir wolde he make , I might his power nought forsake ...
... holde 1825 The faire roser to biholde ; For Love me yaf sich hardement For to fulfille his commaundement . I rought of dethe ne of lyf , Whither that love wolde me dryf , If me a martir wolde he make , I might his power nought forsake ...
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... holde it with you for ostage . ' ' Now certis , this is noon outrage , ' Quoth Love , and fully I accord ; For of the body he is ful lord That hath the herte in his tresor ; Outrage it were to asken more . ' ་ Than of his aumener he ...
... holde it with you for ostage . ' ' Now certis , this is noon outrage , ' Quoth Love , and fully I accord ; For of the body he is ful lord That hath the herte in his tresor ; Outrage it were to asken more . ' ་ Than of his aumener he ...
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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.