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Page xxvii
... whyl that I live may , In trouthe I wol your servant stille abyde , Although my wo encresè day by day , Til that to me be come the dethes tyde . Seint Valentyne ! to you I rénovele My woful lyf , as I can , compleyninge ; But , as me ...
... whyl that I live may , In trouthe I wol your servant stille abyde , Although my wo encresè day by day , Til that to me be come the dethes tyde . Seint Valentyne ! to you I rénovele My woful lyf , as I can , compleyninge ; But , as me ...
Page xxxi
... whyl I have lyves space : For yit wiste I never noon , of my lyve , So litel hony in so fayre hyve . xxxi 45 1 NOTES TO THE PRECEDING POEMS . XXIV . I take the title from 1. 25 ; cf. Troil . i . 287 . The metre exhibits the nine - line ...
... whyl I have lyves space : For yit wiste I never noon , of my lyve , So litel hony in so fayre hyve . xxxi 45 1 NOTES TO THE PRECEDING POEMS . XXIV . I take the title from 1. 25 ; cf. Troil . i . 287 . The metre exhibits the nine - line ...
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... whyl that the chapman sleep . Of nyce conscience took he no keep . If that he faught , and hadde the hyer hond , By water he sente hem hoom to every lond . But of his craft to rekene wel his tydes , His stremes and his daungers him ...
... whyl that the chapman sleep . Of nyce conscience took he no keep . If that he faught , and hadde the hyer hond , By water he sente hem hoom to every lond . But of his craft to rekene wel his tydes , His stremes and his daungers him ...
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... WHYL [ Statius , Theb . xii . 519. ] Ther was a duk that highte Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour , And in his tyme swich a conquerour , That gretter was ther noon under the sonne . Ful many a riche contree hadde he wonne ...
... WHYL [ Statius , Theb . xii . 519. ] Ther was a duk that highte Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour , And in his tyme swich a conquerour , That gretter was ther noon under the sonne . Ful many a riche contree hadde he wonne ...
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... whyl that they were wrothe , And bar awey the boon bitwixe hem bothe . And therfore , at the kinges court , my brother , Ech man for him - self , ther is non other . Love if thee list ; for I love and ay shal ; And soothly , leve ...
... whyl that they were wrothe , And bar awey the boon bitwixe hem bothe . And therfore , at the kinges court , my brother , Ech man for him - self , ther is non other . Love if thee list ; for I love and ay shal ; And soothly , leve ...
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Page 10 - For his science, and for his heigh renoun Of fees and robes hadde he many oon. So greet a purchasour was nowher noon. Al was fee simple to him in effect, His purchasing mighte nat been infect. 320 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
Page 17 - Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre, 550 Or breke it, at a renning, with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Page 281 - And with that word he fley doun fro the beem, For it was day, and eek his hennes alle; And with a chuk he gan hem for to calle, For he had founde a corn, lay in the yerd.
Page 3 - Lettow hadde he reysed and in Ruce, No Cristen man so ofte of his degree. In Gernade at the sege eek hadde he be Of Algezir, and riden in Belmarye.
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Page 21 - He hadde a croys of latoun, ful of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones. 700 But with thise relikes, whan that he fond A povre person dwelling up-on lond, Up-on a day he gat him more moneye Than that the person gat in monthes tweye.
Page 288 - Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees, And necligent, and truste on flaterye. But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralitee, good men.
Page 13 - With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISYK, In al this world ne was ther noon him lyk To speke of phisik and of surgerye; For he was grounded in astronomye.
Page 22 - In Southwerk, at this gentil hostelrye, That highte the Tabard, faste by the Belle. But now is tyme to yow for to telle How that we baren us that ilke night, Whan we were in that hostelrye alight. And after wol I telle of our viage, And al the remenaunt of our pilgrimage.
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