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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... prisoun Perpetually , he nolde no raunsoun . And whan this worthy duk hath thus y - don , He took his host and hoom he rit anon With laurer crowned as a conquerour ; 1020 1025 And there he livith in joye and in honour Terme 42 THE ...
... prisoun Perpetually , he nolde no raunsoun . And whan this worthy duk hath thus y - don , He took his host and hoom he rit anon With laurer crowned as a conquerour ; 1020 1025 And there he livith in joye and in honour Terme 42 THE ...
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... prisoun ( Of which I tolde you and tellen shal ° ) , Was evene joynant to the gardin - wal , 1055 1060 Ther as this Emelye hadde hir pleyinge . Bright was the sonne and cleer in that morninge , And Palamon , this woful prisoner , As was ...
... prisoun ( Of which I tolde you and tellen shal ° ) , Was evene joynant to the gardin - wal , 1055 1060 Ther as this Emelye hadde hir pleyinge . Bright was the sonne and cleer in that morninge , And Palamon , this woful prisoner , As was ...
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... prisoun , for it may non other be ; Fortune hath yeven us this adversitee . Som wikke aspect or disposicioun Of Saturne by sum constellacioun , Hath yeven us this , although we hadde it sworn ; So stood the hevene whan that we were born ...
... prisoun , for it may non other be ; Fortune hath yeven us this adversitee . Som wikke aspect or disposicioun Of Saturne by sum constellacioun , Hath yeven us this , although we hadde it sworn ; So stood the hevene whan that we were born ...
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... prisoun help that we may scapen . And if so be my destinee be shapen By eterne word to dyen in prisoun , Of our linage have som compassioun That is so lowe y - brought by tirannye . ' And with that word Arcite gan espye Wher as this ...
... prisoun help that we may scapen . And if so be my destinee be shapen By eterne word to dyen in prisoun , Of our linage have som compassioun That is so lowe y - brought by tirannye . ' And with that word Arcite gan espye Wher as this ...
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... For wel thou wost thyselven , verraily , That thou and I be dampned to prisoun Perpetuelly ; us gayneth no raunsoun . We strive , as dide the houndes for the boon , 1170 1175 They foughte al day , and yet hir part was 48 THE KNIGHT'S TALE.
... For wel thou wost thyselven , verraily , That thou and I be dampned to prisoun Perpetuelly ; us gayneth no raunsoun . We strive , as dide the houndes for the boon , 1170 1175 They foughte al day , and yet hir part was 48 THE KNIGHT'S TALE.
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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...