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... Tales . • PAGE iii 39 73 THE KNIGHTES TALE · 111 THE PROLOGE OF THE MYLLER THE MILLERES TALE . THE PROLOGE OF THE REEVE . 188 191 • 216 · THE REEVES TALE · 219 • THE COKES PROLOGE 235 THE COKES TALE 236 THE COKES TALE OF GAMELYN 238 ...
... Tales . • PAGE iii 39 73 THE KNIGHTES TALE · 111 THE PROLOGE OF THE MYLLER THE MILLERES TALE . THE PROLOGE OF THE REEVE . 188 191 • 216 · THE REEVES TALE · 219 • THE COKES PROLOGE 235 THE COKES TALE 236 THE COKES TALE OF GAMELYN 238 ...
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... Tale , in which the narrator says that he 1 There is much confusion in the early biographies in this matter . Urry says that Chaucer was soon after made Gentleman of the King's Privy Chamber , that an additional pension of twenty marks ...
... Tale , in which the narrator says that he 1 There is much confusion in the early biographies in this matter . Urry says that Chaucer was soon after made Gentleman of the King's Privy Chamber , that an additional pension of twenty marks ...
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... tale is sufficiently satisfactory to discredit the source to which he refers it , every reader must be considered competent to decide for himself . Upon this point , however , it may be well to observe that a distinction should be drawn ...
... tale is sufficiently satisfactory to discredit the source to which he refers it , every reader must be considered competent to decide for himself . Upon this point , however , it may be well to observe that a distinction should be drawn ...
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... tale of Griselda from the Decameron ( which translation is supposed to have furnished Chaucer with the story ) ... tale . It is true that towards the conclusion of the tale he tells us that Petrarch writeth this storie , ' a circumstance ...
... tale of Griselda from the Decameron ( which translation is supposed to have furnished Chaucer with the story ) ... tale . It is true that towards the conclusion of the tale he tells us that Petrarch writeth this storie , ' a circumstance ...
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... Tales , but upon other occasions , although not in itself conclusive , is , at least , a sug- gestive element in the case . If Petrarch had communicated the story as having derived it himself from Boccaccio , it may be presumed that ...
... Tales , but upon other occasions , although not in itself conclusive , is , at least , a sug- gestive element in the case . If Petrarch had communicated the story as having derived it himself from Boccaccio , it may be presumed that ...
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Page 79 - Somtyme with the lord of Palatye, Ageyn another hethen in Turkye : And evermore he hadde a sovereyn prys. And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yet no vileinye ne sayde 70 In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight.
Page 178 - What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.
Page 80 - Embrouded was he, as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe floures, whyte and rede.
Page 107 - 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 75 - The holy blisful martir for to seeke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
Page 77 - 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 115 - WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, 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 non under the sonne. Ful many a riche contre...
Page 92 - So chaunged he his mete and his soper. Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in mewe, And many a breem and many a luce in stewe.
Page 86 - Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare Was al his lust, for no cost wolde he spare.