Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1854 - English poetry |
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... whan ye mete , As my disciple and my poete , For in the floures of his youth , In sondrie wise , as he well couth , Of ditees , and of songes glade , The which he for my sake made , The londe fulfilled is over all ; Whereof to him in ...
... whan ye mete , As my disciple and my poete , For in the floures of his youth , In sondrie wise , as he well couth , Of ditees , and of songes glade , The which he for my sake made , The londe fulfilled is over all ; Whereof to him in ...
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... WHAN that Aprille with his schowres swoote1 The drought of Marche hath perced to the roote , 1 A metrical analysis ... Whăn that | April | lè with | his schōw | rès swōote The drought of Marche | hath pēr | ced tō | the rōote , And bā ...
... WHAN that Aprille with his schowres swoote1 The drought of Marche hath perced to the roote , 1 A metrical analysis ... Whăn that | April | lè with | his schōw | rès swōote The drought of Marche | hath pēr | ced tō | the rōote , And bā ...
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... Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Enspirud hath in every holte and heeth The tendre croppes , and the yonge sonne1 Hath in the Ram3 his halfe cours i - ronne , And smale fowles maken melodie , That slepen al the night with open ...
... Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Enspirud hath in every holte and heeth The tendre croppes , and the yonge sonne1 Hath in the Ram3 his halfe cours i - ronne , And smale fowles maken melodie , That slepen al the night with open ...
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... whan that they were seeke . * It 1 Speght makes the distinction between palmers and pilgrims to consist in the former never ceasing to go from shrine to shrine , while the latter are under a vow only to perform one specified pilgrimage ...
... whan that they were seeke . * It 1 Speght makes the distinction between palmers and pilgrims to consist in the former never ceasing to go from shrine to shrine , while the latter are under a vow only to perform one specified pilgrimage ...
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... whan the sonne was3 to reste , So hadde I spoken with hem everychon , That I was of here felawschipe anon , And made forward * erly to aryse , To take oure weye ther as I yow devyse . " But natheles , whiles I have tyme and space , Or ...
... whan the sonne was3 to reste , So hadde I spoken with hem everychon , That I was of here felawschipe anon , And made forward * erly to aryse , To take oure weye ther as I yow devyse . " But natheles , whiles I have tyme and space , Or ...
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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.