The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... thee here ; Therfore I rede mak no daungere . If thou wolt yelde thee hastily , Thou shalt [ the ] rather have mercy . He is a fool in sikernesse , That with daunger or stoutnesse Rebellith ther that he shulde plese ; In such folye is ...
... thee here ; Therfore I rede mak no daungere . If thou wolt yelde thee hastily , Thou shalt [ the ] rather have mercy . He is a fool in sikernesse , That with daunger or stoutnesse Rebellith ther that he shulde plese ; In such folye is ...
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... thee , I seye thee pleyn , I wol of thee be more certeyn ; For thee so sore I wol now binde , That thou away ne shalt not winde For to denyen the covenaunt , Or doon that is not avenaunt . Ye have theron set sich justise , That it is ...
... thee , I seye thee pleyn , I wol of thee be more certeyn ; For thee so sore I wol now binde , That thou away ne shalt not winde For to denyen the covenaunt , Or doon that is not avenaunt . Ye have theron set sich justise , That it is ...
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... thee , For so thou mayst best preysed be . 2235 ' Loke fro pryde thou kepe thee wele ; For thou mayst bothe perceyve and fele , That pryde is bothe foly and sinne ; 2241 And he that pryde hath , him withinne , Ne may his herte , in no ...
... thee , For so thou mayst best preysed be . 2235 ' Loke fro pryde thou kepe thee wele ; For thou mayst bothe perceyve and fele , That pryde is bothe foly and sinne ; 2241 And he that pryde hath , him withinne , Ne may his herte , in no ...
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... thee , here in penaunce , That ever , withoute repentaunce , 2356 Thou set thy thought in thy loving , To laste withoute repenting ; And thenke upon thy mirthis swete , That shal folowe aftir whan ye mete . 2360 ' And for thou trewe to ...
... thee , here in penaunce , That ever , withoute repentaunce , 2356 Thou set thy thought in thy loving , To laste withoute repenting ; And thenke upon thy mirthis swete , That shal folowe aftir whan ye mete . 2360 ' And for thou trewe to ...
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... thee Sighes and pleyntes , with newe wo , That no icching prikketh so . Who wot it nought , he may go lere Of hem ... thee to say Som - thing , er thou cam away ; For thou haddist no more wonne , To speke of hir whan thou bigonne : But ...
... thee Sighes and pleyntes , with newe wo , That no icching prikketh so . Who wot it nought , he may go lere Of hem ... thee to say Som - thing , er thou cam away ; For thou haddist no more wonne , To speke of hir whan thou bigonne : But ...
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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.