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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... thee , That art so pale and deedly on to see ? Why cridestow ? who hath thee doon offence ? For Goddes love , tak al in pacience Our prisoun , for it may non other be ; Fortune hath yeven us this adversitee . Som wikke aspect or ...
... thee , That art so pale and deedly on to see ? Why cridestow ? who hath thee doon offence ? For Goddes love , tak al in pacience Our prisoun , for it may non other be ; Fortune hath yeven us this adversitee . Som wikke aspect or ...
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... thee no greet honour For to be fals ne for to be traitour O To me , that am thy cosin and thy brother Y - sworn ful depe and ech of us til other , That never , for to dyen in the peyne , Til that the deeth departe shal us tweyne ...
... thee no greet honour For to be fals ne for to be traitour O To me , that am thy cosin and thy brother Y - sworn ful depe and ech of us til other , That never , for to dyen in the peyne , Til that the deeth departe shal us tweyne ...
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... thee , utterly ; For par amour ° I loved hir first er thow . What wiltow seyn ? thou wistest nat yet now Whether she be a womman or goddesse ! Thyn is affeccioun of holinesse , And myn is love as to a creature ; For which I tolde thee ...
... thee , utterly ; For par amour ° I loved hir first er thow . What wiltow seyn ? thou wistest nat yet now Whether she be a womman or goddesse ! Thyn is affeccioun of holinesse , And myn is love as to a creature ; For which I tolde thee ...
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... thee list , for I love and ay shal ; And soothly , leve brother , this is al . Here in this prisoun mote we endure , And everich of us take his aventure . ' Greet was the stryf and long bitwixe hem tweye , If that I hadde leyser for to ...
... thee list , for I love and ay shal ; And soothly , leve brother , this is al . Here in this prisoun mote we endure , And everich of us take his aventure . ' Greet was the stryf and long bitwixe hem tweye , If that I hadde leyser for to ...
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... thee the dys , That hast the sight of hir , and I thabsence . For possible is , sin thou hast hir presence , And art a knight , a worthy and an able , That by som cas , sin Fortune is chaungeable , Thou maist to thy desyr somtime ...
... thee the dys , That hast the sight of hir , and I thabsence . For possible is , sin thou hast hir presence , And art a knight , a worthy and an able , That by som cas , sin Fortune is chaungeable , Thou maist to thy desyr somtime ...
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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...