 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...— our renowned duke!] Thus, in Chaucer's Knight's Tale: " Whilom as olde stories tellen us, " There was a Duk that highte Theseus, " Of Athenes he was lord and governour," &c. Tynvhitt's edit. v. 861. Lidgate too, the monk of Bury, in his translation of the Tragedies of... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 496 pages
...English Versions. THE KNIGHTES TALE, BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER. \V HI I.OM, as old stories tellen us, There was a duk that highte Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his time swiche a conquerour, That greter was ther non under the sonne ; Ful many a riche contree had he... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 490 pages
...Poetical English Versions. THE KNIGHTES TALE, GEOFFREY CHAUCER. \Y HILOM, as old stories tellen us, There was a duk that highte Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his time swiche a conquerour, That greter was ther non under the sonne ; Ful many a riche contree had he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 766 pages
...riden forth our way ; And he began with right a mery chere His tale anon, and saide as ye shul here, THE KNIGHTES TALE. WHILOM, as olde stories tellen...Theseus. Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his time swiche a conquerour, That greter was ther non under the Sonne. Ful many a riclie contree had he... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 388 pages
...riden forth our way; And he began with right a mery chere His tale anon, and saide as ye shul here. THE KNIGHTES TALE. WHILOM, as olde stories tellen...Theseus. Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his time swiche a conquerour, That greter was ther non under the sonne Ful many a riche contree had he... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 364 pages
...His tale anon, and saide as ye shul here. THE KNIGHTES TALE. WHILOM, as olde stories tellen ug, a6i Ther was a duk that highte Theseus. Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his time swiche a conquerour, That greter was ther non under the sonne. Ful many a riche contree had he... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 368 pages
...His tale anon, and saide as ye shul here. THE KNIGHTES TALE. WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, s6i Ther was a duk that highte Theseus. Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his time swiche a conquerour, That greter was ther non under the sonne. Ful many a riche contree had he... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1845 - 348 pages
...riden forth our way ; And he began with right a mery chere His tale anon, and saide as ye shul here. WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk...Theseus. Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his time swiche a conquerour, That greter was ther non under the sonne. Ful many a riche contree had he... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 360 pages
...dramatists. 837. — draweth cut. Froissart terms this method of drawing lots tirer a la lon9ue paille. To kepe his forward by his fre assent, He seyde ;...gretter was ther non under the sonne. Ful many a riche centre hadde he wonne ; That with his wisdam and his chivalrie He conquered al the regne of Femynye,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...Tale.' The opening lines of that beautiful poem offer an example: — Whilom, as olde stories tellcn is wife my bauble, govemour, And in his time awiche a couquerour, That greter was ther nou under the sonno Full many a... | |
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WHYLOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther noon under the sonne. Ful many a riche contree hadde he wonne ; What with his wisdom... 
