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" 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... "
Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ... - Page 26
by Percy Society - 1847
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Readings in English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...with his heed. His herd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. 180 Up-on the cop right of his nose he hade A werte, and ther-on stood a tuft of heres, Reed as the bristles of a sowes eres ; His nose-thirles blake were and wyde. A swerd and bokeler bar...
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. ISO Up-on the cop right of his nose he hade A werte, and ther-on stood a tuft of heres, Reed as the bristles of a sowes eres ; His nose-thirles blake were and wyde. A swerd and bokeler bar...
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Intensifying Similes in English ...

Torsten Hilding Svartengren - English language - 1918 - 558 pages
...and municipal borough in the Lichfield parliamentary division of Warwickshire. Cf. [from his nose] stood a tuft of heres,/ Reede as the berstles of a souwes eeres. Chaucer, Prol. CT, 555. See below! As red as a Martlesham lion. e. An. EDD. See p. 91, Lion of Cotsolde,...
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The Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The Knight's Tale. The ...

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1922 - 364 pages
...renuing, with his heed, liis berd as any sowe or fox was reed And therto brood, as though it were a spade. Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte, and theron stood a tuft of heres, 555 Reed as the bristles of a sowes eres ; His nose-thirles blake were and wide0 ; A swerd and a bokeler...
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The Modern Student's Book of English Literature

Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...with his heed. His berd as any so we or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Reed as the bristles of a sowes eres ; His nose-thirles blake were and wyde. A swerd and bokeler bar...
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Century Types of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged

George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...provisions. ยป fellow 17 knotty fellow And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Upon the cope ' V toft of herys, Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys; Hise nosethirles blake were and wyde. A swerd...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...with his heed. His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. % K 3 3 2O4P4Q4;3 555 Reed as the bristles of a sowes eres; His nose-thirles12 blake were and wyde. A swerd and bokeler...
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English Verse: The early lyrics to Shakespeare

William Peacock - American poetry - 1928 - 476 pages
...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 right of his nose he hade A werte, and ther-on stood a tuft of heres, Eeed as the bristles of a sowes eres ; His nose-thirles blake were and wyde. A swerd and bokeler bar...
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Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire

Mann - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 356 pages
...appearance. 161 His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And therto brood, as though it were a spade. Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys, Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys; His nosethirles blake were and wyde. A swerd and...
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Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems

William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - English poetry - 1916 - 460 pages
...His berd as any sowe or fox was reed, And ther-to brood, as though it were a spade. Up-on the cop n right of his nose he hade A werte, and ther-on stood a tuft of heres, Reed as the bristles of a sowe's eres; His nose-thirles 12 blake were and wyde. A swerd and bokeler...
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