Geoffrey Chaucer's the Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The Knight's Tale; The Nun's Priest's Tale |
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... noon that can So moche of daliaunce and fair langage . He hadde maad ful many a mariage Of yonge wommen at his owene cost . Unto his ordre he was a noble post . Ful wel biloved and famulier was he With frankeleyns overal in his contree ...
... noon that can So moche of daliaunce and fair langage . He hadde maad ful many a mariage Of yonge wommen at his owene cost . Unto his ordre he was a noble post . Ful wel biloved and famulier was he With frankeleyns overal in his contree ...
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... 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 . 300 305 310 315 320 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas , THE PROLOGUE 13.
... 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 . 300 305 310 315 320 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas , THE PROLOGUE 13.
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... noon . Withouten bake - mete was nevere his hous Of fish and flesh , and that so plentevous , It snewed in his hous of mete and drinke . 325 330 335 340 345 Of alle deyntees that men coude thinke , After the 14 THE PROLOGUE.
... noon . Withouten bake - mete was nevere his hous Of fish and flesh , and that so plentevous , It snewed in his hous of mete and drinke . 325 330 335 340 345 Of alle deyntees that men coude thinke , After the 14 THE PROLOGUE.
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... noon swich from Hulle to Cartage . Hardy he was , and wys to undertake ; With many a tempest hadde his berd been shake . He knew alle the havenes , as they were , From Gootlond to the cape of Finistere , And every crike in Britayne and ...
... noon swich from Hulle to Cartage . Hardy he was , and wys to undertake ; With many a tempest hadde his berd been shake . He knew alle the havenes , as they were , From Gootlond to the cape of Finistere , And every crike in Britayne and ...
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... noon That to the offring bifore hir sholde goon ; And if ther dide , certeyn so wrooth was she , That she was out of alle charitee . Hir coverchiefs ful fine were of ground , I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound , That on a Sonday ...
... noon That to the offring bifore hir sholde goon ; And if ther dide , certeyn so wrooth was she , That she was out of alle charitee . Hir coverchiefs ful fine were of ground , I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound , That on a Sonday ...
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Page 264 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Page 137 - Or elles, if free choys be graunted me To do that same thing, or do it noght, Though god forwoot it, er that it was wroght ; Or if his witing streyneth nevere a del But by necessitee condicionel.
Page 11 - Or with a bretherhed to been withholde; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it nat miscarie ; He was a shepherde and no mercenarie. And though he holy were, and vertuous, He was to sinful man nat despitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his teching discreet and benigne.
Page 3 - Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
Page 2 - For him was lever have at his beddes heed Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophye, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye.
Page 20 - 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.
Page 125 - Seyde he nat thus, ne do no fors of dremes? Now, sire," quod she, "whan we flee fro the bemes, For Goddes love, as...