The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... thought , and greet distresse , That she hadde suffred day and night Made hir ful yelwe , and no - thing bright , Ful fade , pale , and megre also . Was never wight yit half so wo As that hir semed for to be , 265 Nor so fulfilled of ...
... thought , and greet distresse , That she hadde suffred day and night Made hir ful yelwe , and no - thing bright , Ful fade , pale , and megre also . Was never wight yit half so wo As that hir semed for to be , 265 Nor so fulfilled of ...
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... Thought . The fifte , the NEWE - THOUGHT , y - wis . These arowes that I speke of here , Were alle fyve tof oon manere , And alle were they resemblable . To hem was wel sitting and able The foule croked bowe hidous , Richesse . Bisyde ...
... Thought . The fifte , the NEWE - THOUGHT , y - wis . These arowes that I speke of here , Were alle fyve tof oon manere , And alle were they resemblable . To hem was wel sitting and able The foule croked bowe hidous , Richesse . Bisyde ...
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... thought but on hir play . Hir lemman was bisyde alway , In swich a gyse , that he hir kiste At alle tymes that him liste , That al the daunce mighte it see ; They make no force of privetee ; For who spak of hem yvel or wel , They were ...
... thought but on hir play . Hir lemman was bisyde alway , In swich a gyse , that he hir kiste At alle tymes that him liste , That al the daunce mighte it see ; They make no force of privetee ; For who spak of hem yvel or wel , They were ...
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... thought was in non other thing . For hadde it been in my keping , The more desyr hadde I to go Unto the roser , where that grew The fresshe botoun so bright of hewe . 1790 Betir me were have leten be ; But it bihoved nedes me To don ...
... thought was in non other thing . For hadde it been in my keping , The more desyr hadde I to go Unto the roser , where that grew The fresshe botoun so bright of hewe . 1790 Betir me were have leten be ; But it bihoved nedes me To don ...
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... thought . Thou shalt not lesen of thy speche , For [ to ] thy helping wol I eche , And eek encresen that I may . But first I wol that thou obay Fully , for thyn avauntage , Anon to do me here homage . 1990 1995 2005 2010 And sithe [ n ] ...
... thought . Thou shalt not lesen of thy speche , For [ to ] thy helping wol I eche , And eek encresen that I may . But first I wol that thou obay Fully , for thyn avauntage , Anon to do me here homage . 1990 1995 2005 2010 And sithe [ n ] ...
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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.