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Page vii
... called the ' Great Peace , ' was ratified in the following October , and King John was set at liberty . In this expedition Chaucer was made prisoner , and most probably obtained his release after the ratification of the treaty . We have ...
... called the ' Great Peace , ' was ratified in the following October , and King John was set at liberty . In this expedition Chaucer was made prisoner , and most probably obtained his release after the ratification of the treaty . We have ...
Page viii
... called ) , That was my lady name righte . She was therto bothe faire and bryghte , She hadde not hir name wronge . ' • ( Boke of the Duchesse , 11. 947-950 . ) k In this embassy Chaucer is supposed to have made acquaintanceship with ...
... called ) , That was my lady name righte . She was therto bothe faire and bryghte , She hadde not hir name wronge . ' • ( Boke of the Duchesse , 11. 947-950 . ) k In this embassy Chaucer is supposed to have made acquaintanceship with ...
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... called Huberd . A MARCHAUNT was ther with a forked berd , In motteleye , and high on horse he sat , Uppon his heed a Flaundrisch bever hat ; His botus clapsud faire and fetously . His resons he spak ful solempnely , Sownynge alway the ...
... called Huberd . A MARCHAUNT was ther with a forked berd , In motteleye , and high on horse he sat , Uppon his heed a Flaundrisch bever hat ; His botus clapsud faire and fetously . His resons he spak ful solempnely , Sownynge alway the ...
Page 117
... called theyre coate of armes in servise . ' It is the signe of an inne in Southwarke by London , within the which was the lodging of the Abbot of Hyde by Winchester . This is the hostelry where Chaucer and the other Pilgrims mett ...
... called theyre coate of armes in servise . ' It is the signe of an inne in Southwarke by London , within the which was the lodging of the Abbot of Hyde by Winchester . This is the hostelry where Chaucer and the other Pilgrims mett ...
Page 118
... called , by mistake , the Talbot . 1. 23. hostelrie , a lodging , inn , house , residence . Hostler properly signifies the keeper of an inn , and not , as now , the servant of an inn who looks after the horses . ( The O.E. bors - bus ...
... called , by mistake , the Talbot . 1. 23. hostelrie , a lodging , inn , house , residence . Hostler properly signifies the keeper of an inn , and not , as now , the servant of an inn who looks after the horses . ( The O.E. bors - bus ...
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Page 6 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 4 - The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By-cause that it was old and som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men...
Page 6 - And everich hostiler and tappestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere; For un-to swich a worthy man as he Acorded nat, as by his facultee, To have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce.
Page 25 - And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by co'mposicioun, As ye han herd ; what...
Page 156 - The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God ; but the woman is the glory of the man.
Page 2 - An horn he bar, the bawdrik" was of grene; A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse.
Page xlviii - But natheles, whyl I have tyme and space, Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed...
Page 21 - For this ye knowen al so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Page 24 - And shortly for to tellen, as it was, Were it by aventure, or sort,*
Page 11 - ... me, That on his shyne a mormal hadde he! For blankmanger, that made he with the beste. A Shipman was ther, wonynge fer by weste; For aught I woot, he was of Dertemouthe.