Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey ChaucerPercy Society, 1847 - English literature |
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... sone , a yong SqUYER , A lovyer , and a lusty bacheler , With lokkes crulle as they were layde in presse . Of twenty yeer he was of age I gesse . Of his stature he was of evene lengthe , And wondurly delyver , and gret of strengthe ...
... sone , a yong SqUYER , A lovyer , and a lusty bacheler , With lokkes crulle as they were layde in presse . Of twenty yeer he was of age I gesse . Of his stature he was of evene lengthe , And wondurly delyver , and gret of strengthe ...
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... sone , That heeld opynyoun that pleyn delyt Was verraily felicité perfyt . An househaldere , and that a gret , was he ; Seynt Julian he was in his countré . His breed , his ale , was alway after oon ; A bettre envyned man was nowher ...
... sone , That heeld opynyoun that pleyn delyt Was verraily felicité perfyt . An househaldere , and that a gret , was he ; Seynt Julian he was in his countré . His breed , his ale , was alway after oon ; A bettre envyned man was nowher ...
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... sone he hem sente Tathenes , for to dwellen in prisoun Perpetuelly , he wolde no raunceoun . And this duk whan he hadde thus i - doon , He took his host , and hom he ryt anoon With laurer crowned as a conquerour ; And there he lyveth in ...
... sone he hem sente Tathenes , for to dwellen in prisoun Perpetuelly , he wolde no raunceoun . And this duk whan he hadde thus i - doon , He took his host , and hom he ryt anoon With laurer crowned as a conquerour ; And there he lyveth in ...
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... sone aspye Of every servaunt , which that served here . Wel couthe he hewe woode , and water bere , For he was yonge and mighty for the nones , And therto he was strong and bygge of bones To doon that eny wight can him devyse . A yeer ...
... sone aspye Of every servaunt , which that served here . Wel couthe he hewe woode , and water bere , For he was yonge and mighty for the nones , And therto he was strong and bygge of bones To doon that eny wight can him devyse . A yeer ...
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... sone in gentil herte . And though he first for ire quok and sterte , He hath it al considered in a clause , The trespas of hem bothe , and here cause : And although his ire here gylt accused , Yet in his resoun he hem bothe excused ...
... sone in gentil herte . And though he first for ire quok and sterte , He hath it al considered in a clause , The trespas of hem bothe , and here cause : And although his ire here gylt accused , Yet in his resoun he hem bothe excused ...
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Page ix - Meanwhile in 1374 he was appointed Comptroller of the Customs and Subsidy of Wools, Skins, and Tanned Hides...
Page 4 - Somtyme with the lord of Palatye, Ageyn another hethen in Turkye : And evermore he hadde a sovereyn prys. And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yet no vileinye ne sayde 70 In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight.
Page 24 - He sette nat his benefice to hyre, And leet his sheep encombred in the myre, And ran to London, un-to seynt Poules, To seken him a chaunterie for soules...
Page 23 - PERSOUN of a toun ; But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche ; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 32 - He seyde, he hadde a gobet of the seyl That se'ynt Peter hadde, whan that he wente Up-on the see, til Jesu Crist him hente. He hadde a croys of latoun, ful of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones.
Page 11 - Ful swetely herde he confessioun, And plesaunt was his absolucioun; He was an esy man to yeve penaunce Ther as he wiste...
Page 33 - For this ye knowen al so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
Page 25 - The MILLER was a stout carl for the nones: Ful big he was of braun and eek of bones; That proved wel, for over-al ther he cam, At wrastling he wolde have alwey the ram.
Page 26 - Ther nas no dore that he nolde heve of harre, 550 Or breke it, at a renning, with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop...
Page 10 - And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men...