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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... plural form ; four is plural by its definition ; the termination e in foure and yonge implies plurality ; men is plural as contrasted with man , the need of a special form ( like min , say , that would mean either ) being rarely felt ...
... plural form ; four is plural by its definition ; the termination e in foure and yonge implies plurality ; men is plural as contrasted with man , the need of a special form ( like min , say , that would mean either ) being rarely felt ...
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... plural . Chaucer would have said he rood , but they riden ; we say he rode and they rode , and one cannot tell by rode anything about the number of the riders . We still retain Double In- dication in rode and yesterday , both of which ...
... plural . Chaucer would have said he rood , but they riden ; we say he rode and they rode , and one cannot tell by rode anything about the number of the riders . We still retain Double In- dication in rode and yesterday , both of which ...
Page 183
... plural is like the singular : caas , hors , neet , paas , pound , sheep , swyn , vers , yeer . The plural differs from the singular by vowel- change : foot , feet ; goos , gees ; man , men . The plural adds n to the singular , often ...
... plural is like the singular : caas , hors , neet , paas , pound , sheep , swyn , vers , yeer . The plural differs from the singular by vowel- change : foot , feet ; goos , gees ; man , men . The plural adds n to the singular , often ...
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... plural but a weakened form of man , is used with a singular verb in the sense of one or some one or any one : Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte . For alday meteth men at unset stevene . 149 1524 Som is singular , and som another ...
... plural but a weakened form of man , is used with a singular verb in the sense of one or some one or any one : Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte . For alday meteth men at unset stevene . 149 1524 Som is singular , and som another ...
Page 189
... plurals , in address , before proper names , after the , this , and that , and in some other conditions : a yong man , the yonge man . This distinction is not observed in Modern English : a young man , the young man . Of all is ...
... plurals , in address , before proper names , after the , this , and that , and in some other conditions : a yong man , the yonge man . This distinction is not observed in Modern English : a young man , the young man . Of all is ...
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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...