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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... swich ° licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour ; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes , and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram ° his halfe cours y - ronne , And smale fowles ...
... swich ° licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour ; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes , and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram ° his halfe cours y - ronne , And smale fowles ...
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... than a lazar or a beggestere ° ; For unto swich a worthy man as he Acorded nat , as by his facultee , ° To have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce . 225 230 235 240 245 It is nat honeste , it may nat avaunce ° 10 THE PROLOGUE.
... than a lazar or a beggestere ° ; For unto swich a worthy man as he Acorded nat , as by his facultee , ° To have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce . 225 230 235 240 245 It is nat honeste , it may nat avaunce ° 10 THE PROLOGUE.
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... swich poraille , But al with riche and selleres of vitaille . And overal ther as ° profit sholde arise , Curteys he was , and lowely of servise . Ther nas no man nowher so vertuous ; He was the beste beggere in his hous , For though a ...
... swich poraille , But al with riche and selleres of vitaille . And overal ther as ° profit sholde arise , Curteys he was , and lowely of servise . Ther nas no man nowher so vertuous ; He was the beste beggere in his hous , For though a ...
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... swich , his wordes weren so wise . Justice he was ful often in assise , By patente and by pleyn commissioun ; For his science and for his heigh renoun Of fees and robes hadde he many oon . So greet a purchasour ° was nowher noon . Al ...
... swich , his wordes weren so wise . Justice he was ful often in assise , By patente and by pleyn commissioun ; For his science and for his heigh renoun Of fees and robes hadde he many oon . So greet a purchasour ° was nowher noon . Al ...
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... 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 in ...
... 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 in ...
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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...