The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1903 - 881 pages |
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... wight yit half so wo As that hir semed for to be , 265 Nor so fulfilled of ire as she . 270 275 311 320 I trowe that no wight mighte hir plese , 315 Nor do that thing that mighte hir ese ; Nor she ne wolde hir sorowe slake , Nor comfort ...
... wight yit half so wo As that hir semed for to be , 265 Nor so fulfilled of ire as she . 270 275 311 320 I trowe that no wight mighte hir plese , 315 Nor do that thing that mighte hir ese ; Nor she ne wolde hir sorowe slake , Nor comfort ...
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... wight . The beste and grettest of valour Diden Richesse ful gret honour , And besy weren hir to serve ; 1040 For who - so bar the stoon so bright , Of venim + thurte him no - thing doute , While he the stoon hadde him aboute . That ...
... wight . The beste and grettest of valour Diden Richesse ful gret honour , And besy weren hir to serve ; 1040 For who - so bar the stoon so bright , Of venim + thurte him no - thing doute , While he the stoon hadde him aboute . That ...
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... wight misseid of here ; She bar no rancour to no wight . Cleer broun she was , and therto bright Of face , of body avenaunt ; I wot no lady so plesaunt . 1285 1290 1295 Nyce she was , but she ne mente Noon harm ne slight in hir entente ...
... wight misseid of here ; She bar no rancour to no wight . Cleer broun she was , and therto bright Of face , of body avenaunt ; I wot no lady so plesaunt . 1285 1290 1295 Nyce she was , but she ne mente Noon harm ne slight in hir entente ...
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... wight corage ; Heer lyth no reed ne wit therto ; For Venus sone , daun Cupido , 1605 1610 1615 Two cristal stones craftely 1570 In thilke fresshe and faire welle . But o thing soothly dar I telle , That ye wol holde a greet mervayle ...
... wight corage ; Heer lyth no reed ne wit therto ; For Venus sone , daun Cupido , 1605 1610 1615 Two cristal stones craftely 1570 In thilke fresshe and faire welle . But o thing soothly dar I telle , That ye wol holde a greet mervayle ...
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... wight may carye aweye ; This keye is ful of gret poeste . ' With which anoon he touchid me Undir the syde ful softely , That he myn herte sodeynly Without [ al ] anoy had spered , 2095 That yit right nought it hath me dered . Whan he ...
... wight may carye aweye ; This keye is ful of gret poeste . ' With which anoon he touchid me Undir the syde ful softely , That he myn herte sodeynly Without [ al ] anoy had spered , 2095 That yit right nought it hath me dered . Whan he ...
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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.