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... give the date June 8 , 1373 ] . And though it is the Clerk of Oxenford , and not Chaucer , that asserts that he learned the tale of ' a worthy clerk ' at Padua , ' Fraunces Petrarch , the laureate poete , ' yet there can be no question ...
... give the date June 8 , 1373 ] . And though it is the Clerk of Oxenford , and not Chaucer , that asserts that he learned the tale of ' a worthy clerk ' at Padua , ' Fraunces Petrarch , the laureate poete , ' yet there can be no question ...
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... ( give ) I feyth and ful credence , And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely that there is game noon , That fro my bokes maketh me to goon , But hit be seldom , on the holy day , Save , certeynly , whan that the month of May Is ...
... ( give ) I feyth and ful credence , And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely that there is game noon , That fro my bokes maketh me to goon , But hit be seldom , on the holy day , Save , certeynly , whan that the month of May Is ...
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... Chaucer himself gives the name of " Palemon , " were in hand at about the same time . ' ( Skeat , in Notes and Queries , Fourth Series , iv . 292. ) ; Athens with Hippolyta and her sister Emilia . He enters THE KNIGHTES TALE . XXV.
... Chaucer himself gives the name of " Palemon , " were in hand at about the same time . ' ( Skeat , in Notes and Queries , Fourth Series , iv . 292. ) ; Athens with Hippolyta and her sister Emilia . He enters THE KNIGHTES TALE . XXV.
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... gives him an advantage over his rival which makes the catastrophe more consonant to poetical justice ; ( 2 ) The picture which Boccaccio has ex- hibited of two young princes violently enamoured of the same object , without jealousy or ...
... gives him an advantage over his rival which makes the catastrophe more consonant to poetical justice ; ( 2 ) The picture which Boccaccio has ex- hibited of two young princes violently enamoured of the same object , without jealousy or ...
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... gives some account of the editions of the poet's works . Some of the remarks upon the poems of ' Anelida and Arcite ' and ' The Parlement of Foules ' are so important for the right understanding of the Knightes Tale that the substance ...
... gives some account of the editions of the poet's works . Some of the remarks upon the poems of ' Anelida and Arcite ' and ' The Parlement of Foules ' are so important for the right understanding of the Knightes Tale that the substance ...
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Page 2 - In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste.
Page 11 - This worthy man ful wel his wit bisette; Ther wiste no wight that he was in dette, 280 So estatly was he of his governaunce, With his bargaynes, and with his chevisaunce.
Page 12 - Ther was also, ful riche of excellence. Discreet he was and of greet reverence — He semed swich, his wordes weren so wise.
Page 8 - A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. His heed was balled, that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he had been anoint.
Page 27 - Greet chere made our hoste us everichon, And to the soper sette he us anon ; And served us with vitaille at the beste. Strong was the wyn, and wel to drynke us leste. A semely man our hoste was withalle For to been a marshal in an halle ; A large man he was with eyen stepe...
Page 126 - Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees, And necligent, and truste on flaterye. But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralitee ~, good men. 620 For seint Paul seith, that al that writen is, (4631) To our doctryne it is y-write, y-wis. Taketh the fruyt, and lat the chaf be stille.
Page 18 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte ; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte...
Page 2 - Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, 40 And eek in what array that they were inne; And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.
Page 21 - Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace, That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace The wisdom of an heep of lerned men?
Page 12 - And every statut coude he pleyn by rote. He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote Girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale; Of his array telle I no lenger tale.