The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... ther were of many gyse Y - set by compas in assyse ; 900 Ther lakked no flour , to my dome , Ne 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 ...
... ther were of many gyse Y - set by compas in assyse ; 900 Ther lakked no flour , to my dome , Ne 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 ...
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... ther were two or three . Ther were , and that wot I ful wel , Of pomgarnettes a ful gret del ; That is a fruyt ful wel to lyke , Namely to folk whan they ben syke . And trees ther were , greet foisoun , That baren notes in hir sesoun ...
... ther were two or three . Ther were , and that wot I ful wel , Of pomgarnettes a ful gret del ; That is a fruyt ful wel to lyke , Namely to folk whan they ben syke . And trees ther were , greet foisoun , That baren notes in hir sesoun ...
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... Ther never yet grew corn ne gras , Ne tree , ne nothing that ought was , Beste , ne man , ne + nothing elles , Save ther were a fewe welles Came renning fro the cliffes adoun , That made a deedly sleping soun , And ronnen doun right by ...
... Ther never yet grew corn ne gras , Ne tree , ne nothing that ought was , Beste , ne man , ne + nothing elles , Save ther were a fewe welles Came renning fro the cliffes adoun , That made a deedly sleping soun , And ronnen doun right by ...
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... ther I stood as stille as ought , That , sooth to saye , he saw me nought , For - why he heng his heed adoune . 461 And with a deedly sorwful soune He made of ryme ten vers or twelve , Of a compleynt to him - selve , The moste pite ...
... ther I stood as stille as ought , That , sooth to saye , he saw me nought , For - why he heng his heed adoune . 461 And with a deedly sorwful soune He made of ryme ten vers or twelve , Of a compleynt to him - selve , The moste pite ...
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... ther is ! " Therwith Fortune seyde " chek here ! " And " mate ! " in mid pointe of the chekkere With a poune erraunt , allas ! Ful craftier to pley she was 660 And bethenke me every - del , How that ther lyth in rekening , In my sorwe ...
... ther is ! " Therwith Fortune seyde " chek here ! " And " mate ! " in mid pointe of the chekkere With a poune erraunt , allas ! Ful craftier to pley she was 660 And bethenke me every - del , How that ther lyth in rekening , In my sorwe ...
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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.