The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... took a new house at Westminster . This supposition agrees well with various hints that we obtain from other notices . Thus , in 1390 , he was appointed ( with five others ) to superintend the repairing of the banks of the Thames between ...
... took a new house at Westminster . This supposition agrees well with various hints that we obtain from other notices . Thus , in 1390 , he was appointed ( with five others ) to superintend the repairing of the banks of the Thames between ...
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... took a long lease of a house in the garden of the Chapel of St. Mary , Westminster ; this house stood near the spot now occupied by King Henry the Seventh's Chapel . The lease is in the Muniment Room of Westminster Abbey ( Historical ...
... took a long lease of a house in the garden of the Chapel of St. Mary , Westminster ; this house stood near the spot now occupied by King Henry the Seventh's Chapel . The lease is in the Muniment Room of Westminster Abbey ( Historical ...
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... took it in so gret dispyt , That she , withoute more respyt , 1486 1490 Was deed anoon . But , er she deyde , Ful pitously to god she preyde , That proude - herted Narcisus , That was in love so daungerous , Mighte on a day ben hampred ...
... took it in so gret dispyt , That she , withoute more respyt , 1486 1490 Was deed anoon . But , er she deyde , Ful pitously to god she preyde , That proude - herted Narcisus , That was in love so daungerous , Mighte on a day ben hampred ...
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... took an arowe ful sharply whet , And in his bowe whan it was set , He streight up to his ere drough The stronge bowe , that was so tough , And shet at me so wonder smerte , That through myn eye unto myn herte The takel smoot , and depe ...
... took an arowe ful sharply whet , And in his bowe whan it was set , He streight up to his ere drough The stronge bowe , that was so tough , And shet at me so wonder smerte , That through myn eye unto myn herte The takel smoot , and depe ...
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... 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 feet I roos up than 1880 Feble , as a forwoundid man ; 1830 And forth to gon ...
... 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 feet I roos up than 1880 Feble , as a forwoundid man ; 1830 And forth to gon ...
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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.