The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... wente in for to see Full lustily and wel I ferde ; For never yit swich melodye 675 Was herd of man that mighte dye . Swich swete song was hem among , That me thoughte it no briddes song , Sir Mirthe ; for my desiring Was him to seen ...
... wente in for to see Full lustily and wel I ferde ; For never yit swich melodye 675 Was herd of man that mighte dye . Swich swete song was hem among , That me thoughte it no briddes song , Sir Mirthe ; for my desiring Was him to seen ...
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... wente LARGESSE , that sette al hir entente For to be honourable and free ; Of Alexandres kin was she ; Hir moste joye was , y - wis , Wel fourmed was hir face and clere , And opened had she hir colere ; For she right there hadde in ...
... wente LARGESSE , that sette al hir entente For to be honourable and free ; Of Alexandres kin was she ; Hir moste joye was , y - wis , Wel fourmed was hir face and clere , And opened had she hir colere ; For she right there hadde in ...
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... wente a knight dauncing And ful wel coude he doon honour , For many of hem that daunced there Were with hir loves went awey Under the trees to have hir pley . The knight was fair and stif in stour , 1270 And in armure a semely man , A ...
... wente a knight dauncing And ful wel coude he doon honour , For many of hem that daunced there Were with hir loves went awey Under the trees to have hir pley . The knight was fair and stif in stour , 1270 And in armure a semely man , A ...
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... wente on right honde and on left 1445 Aboute the place ; it was not left , Til I hadde al the tyerde in been , In the testres that men mighte seen . And thus whyle I wente in my pley , The God of Love me folowed ay , Right as an hunter ...
... wente on right honde and on left 1445 Aboute the place ; it was not left , Til I hadde al the tyerde in been , In the testres that men mighte seen . And thus whyle I wente in my pley , The God of Love me folowed ay , Right as an hunter ...
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... wente ; But ever I dredde me to repente , The swote smelle sprong so wyde 1670 That it dide al the place aboute- 1705 FRAGMENT B. [ Line 1705 is incomplete , as the sentence has no verb . Here the genuine portion ends . Line 1706 gives ...
... wente ; But ever I dredde me to repente , The swote smelle sprong so wyde 1670 That it dide al the place aboute- 1705 FRAGMENT B. [ Line 1705 is incomplete , as the sentence has no verb . Here the genuine portion ends . Line 1706 gives ...
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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.