The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... nought in shamful wyse . And hath such [ wo ] , whan folk doth good , That nigh she melteth for pure wood ; Hir herte kerveth and + to - breketh That god the peple wel awreketh . Envye , y - wis , shal never lette Of man or womman forth ...
... nought in shamful wyse . And hath such [ wo ] , whan folk doth good , That nigh she melteth for pure wood ; Hir herte kerveth and + to - breketh That god the peple wel awreketh . Envye , y - wis , shal never lette Of man or womman forth ...
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... nought so muche as flour of brome , Ne violete , no eek pervenke , Ne flour non , that man can on thenke ; And many a rose - leef ful long 905 856 Was entermedled ther - among : And also on his heed was set Of roses rede a chapelet ...
... nought so muche as flour of brome , Ne violete , no eek pervenke , Ne flour non , that man can on thenke ; And many a rose - leef ful long 905 856 Was entermedled ther - among : And also on his heed was set Of roses rede a chapelet ...
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... nought of yisterday That riche folk have ful gret might To helpe , and eek to greve a wight . The beste and grettest of valour Diden Richesse ful gret honour , And besy weren hir to serve ; 1040 For who - so bar the stoon so bright , Of ...
... nought of yisterday That riche folk have ful gret might To helpe , and eek to greve a wight . The beste and grettest of valour Diden Richesse ful gret honour , And besy weren hir to serve ; 1040 For who - so bar the stoon so bright , Of ...
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... nought arace ; But in myn herte stille it stood , Al bledde I not a drope of blood . 1740 1750 I was bothe anguissous and trouble 1755 For the peril that I saw double ; I niste what to seye or do , Ne gete a leche my woundis + to ; For ...
... nought arace ; But in myn herte stille it stood , Al bledde I not a drope of blood . 1740 1750 I was bothe anguissous and trouble 1755 For the peril that I saw double ; I niste what to seye or do , Ne gete a leche my woundis + to ; For ...
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... nought forsake . And whyl for anger thus I wook , The God of Love an arowe took ; Ful sharp it was and [ ful ] pugnaunt , And it was callid Fair - Semblaunt , The which in no wys wol consente , That any lover him repente 1875 Upon my ...
... nought forsake . And whyl for anger thus I wook , The God of Love an arowe took ; Ful sharp it was and [ ful ] pugnaunt , And it was callid Fair - Semblaunt , The which in no wys wol consente , That any lover him repente 1875 Upon my ...
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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.