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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... 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 was fee simple to him in ...
... 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 was fee simple to him in ...
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... was ther of a temple , Of which achatours mighte take exemple For to be wise in bying of vitaille . For whether that he payde or took by taille , ° 550 555 560 565 570 Algate he wayted so in his achat , That he THE PROLOGUE 23.
... was ther of a temple , Of which achatours mighte take exemple For to be wise in bying of vitaille . For whether that he payde or took by taille , ° 550 555 560 565 570 Algate he wayted so in his achat , That he THE PROLOGUE 23.
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... wise the peynes stronge Bothe of the lovere and the prisoner . I noot which hath the wofuller mester . For shortly for to seyn , this Palamoun . Perpetuelly is dampned to prisoun In cheynes and in fettres to been deed ° ; And Arcite is ...
... wise the peynes stronge Bothe of the lovere and the prisoner . I noot which hath the wofuller mester . For shortly for to seyn , this Palamoun . Perpetuelly is dampned to prisoun In cheynes and in fettres to been deed ° ; And Arcite is ...
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... wise his lyf he ladde , And bar him so in pees and eek in werre , Ther nas no man that Theseus hath derre . ° And in this blisse lete I now Arcite 1445 And speke I wol of Palamon a lite . 1450 In derknesse and horrible and strong ...
... wise his lyf he ladde , And bar him so in pees and eek in werre , Ther nas no man that Theseus hath derre . ° And in this blisse lete I now Arcite 1445 And speke I wol of Palamon a lite . 1450 In derknesse and horrible and strong ...
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... wise I lete hem fighting dwelle ; And forth I wol of Theseus yow telle . The Destinee , Ministre General , 1655 1660 That executeth in the world over - al The purveyaunce that God hath seyn biforn , ° 1665 So strong it is that , though ...
... wise I lete hem fighting dwelle ; And forth I wol of Theseus yow telle . The Destinee , Ministre General , 1655 1660 That executeth in the world over - al The purveyaunce that God hath seyn biforn , ° 1665 So strong it is that , though ...
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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...