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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... 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 ; Ne that a monk whan he is rechelees Is likned til a fish that is waterlees ; This is to seyn ...
... 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 ; Ne that a monk whan he is rechelees Is likned til a fish that is waterlees ; This is to seyn ...
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... olde Esculapius , And Deïscorides , and eek Rufus , Old Ypocras , Haly and Galien , Serapion , Razis and Avicen , Averrois , Damascien and Constantyn , Bernard and Gatesden and Gilbertyn . Of his diete mesurable was he , For it was of ...
... olde Esculapius , And Deïscorides , and eek Rufus , Old Ypocras , Haly and Galien , Serapion , Razis and Avicen , Averrois , Damascien and Constantyn , Bernard and Gatesden and Gilbertyn . Of his diete mesurable was he , For it was of ...
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... olde daunce . A good man was ther of religioun , And was a povre PERSOUN of a toun , But riche he was of holy thought and werk . He was also a lerned man , a clerk , That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parishens devoutly ...
... olde daunce . A good man was ther of religioun , And was a povre PERSOUN of a toun , But riche he was of holy thought and werk . He was also a lerned man , a clerk , That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parishens devoutly ...
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... ride , and herkneth what I seye . ' 855 And with that word we riden forth our weye ; And he bigan with right a mery chere His tale anon , and ṣeyde in this manere . THE KNIGHT'S TALE WHILOM , as olde stories tellen us THE PROLOGUE 35.
... ride , and herkneth what I seye . ' 855 And with that word we riden forth our weye ; And he bigan with right a mery chere His tale anon , and ṣeyde in this manere . THE KNIGHT'S TALE WHILOM , as olde stories tellen us THE PROLOGUE 35.
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... olde stories tellen us , Ther was a duk ° that highte Theseus ; Of Atthenes he was lord and governour , And in his time swich a conquerour That gretter was ther noon under the sonne . Ful many a riche contree ° hadde he wonne ; What ...
... olde stories tellen us , Ther was a duk ° that highte Theseus ; Of Atthenes he was lord and governour , And in his time swich a conquerour That gretter was ther noon under the sonne . Ful many a riche contree ° hadde he wonne ; What ...
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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...