The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... speke of him , at eve or morwe , It cureth me of al my sorwe . To me is noon so high plesaunce As of his persone daliaunce . " 2850 She wist ful wel that Swete - Speking Comfortith in ful muche thing . Hir love she had ful wel assayed ...
... speke of him , at eve or morwe , It cureth me of al my sorwe . To me is noon so high plesaunce As of his persone daliaunce . " 2850 She wist ful wel that Swete - Speking Comfortith in ful muche thing . Hir love she had ful wel assayed ...
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... speke , within a throwe , To Jelousye , right wonder lowe . First of his grace she bisought , And seide : - ' Sire , ne leveth nought 3870 Wikkid - Tunge , that fals espye , Which is so glad to feyne and lye . He hath you maad , thurgh ...
... speke , within a throwe , To Jelousye , right wonder lowe . First of his grace she bisought , And seide : - ' Sire , ne leveth nought 3870 Wikkid - Tunge , that fals espye , Which is so glad to feyne and lye . He hath you maad , thurgh ...
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... speke with hem so faire That ye shal holde you payed ful wel , Though ye you medle never a del . Lat ladies worche with hir thinges , They shal hem telle so fele tydinges , And moeve hem eke so many requestis 6036 6040 By flatery , that ...
... speke with hem so faire That ye shal holde you payed ful wel , Though ye you medle never a del . Lat ladies worche with hir thinges , They shal hem telle so fele tydinges , And moeve hem eke so many requestis 6036 6040 By flatery , that ...
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... speke , and telle it thee , Al shulde I dye , and be put doun , As was seynt Poul , in derk prisoun ; Or be exiled in this caas With wrong , as maister William was , That my moder Ypocrisye Banisshed for hir greet envye . F. Sem . No ...
... speke , and telle it thee , Al shulde I dye , and be put doun , As was seynt Poul , in derk prisoun ; Or be exiled in this caas With wrong , as maister William was , That my moder Ypocrisye Banisshed for hir greet envye . F. Sem . No ...
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... speke in no such wyse , That men shulde humble abit dispyse , So that no pryde ther - under be . No man shulde hate , as thinketh me , The pore man in sich clothing . 7275 But god ne preiseth him no - thing , That seith he hath the ...
... speke in no such wyse , That men shulde humble abit dispyse , So that no pryde ther - under be . No man shulde hate , as thinketh me , The pore man in sich clothing . 7275 But god ne preiseth him no - thing , That seith he hath the ...
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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.