 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 628 pages
...was wys, And of his port as meke as is a niayde. He nevere yit no vileinye ne sayde In al his iyf, unto no maner wight. He was a verray perfight gentil knight. But for to tellen you of his array, His hors was good, but he ne was nought gay. Of fustyan he werede a gepoun... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Clarendon Press series - 1889 - 334 pages
...were7 worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meek as is a mayde. He nevere yet no vileinye ne sayde 70 In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight. But for to tellen yow of his array. His hors were 3 goode, but he was 6 nat gay.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury (England) - 1889 - 332 pages
...were7 worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meek as is a mayde. He nevere yet no vileinye ne sayde 70 In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight. But for to tellen yow of his array, His hors were 6 goode, but he was 8 nat gay.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Edward Francis Willoughby - 1880 - 128 pages
...change of meaning, and churl (AS ceorl or carl), a free tenant at will, a corresponding degradation. In al his lyf, unto no maner wight. He was a verray perfigt gentil knight. ^ But for to telle you of his aray, His hors was good, but he ne was nou^t gay.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Reading - 1889 - 334 pages
...were7 worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meek^s is a mayde. He nevere yet no vileinyV*ne sayde 70 In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight. But for to tellen yow of his array, His hors were 8 goode, but he was 2 nat gay.... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1890 - 386 pages
...and courtesy ; a veteran who had fought in fifteen mortal battles, but was wise as he was worthy, " And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yit...maner wight. He was a verray perfight gentil knight." The knight's horse was good, but not gay ; and he, in holiday trim, had a short cassock of fustian,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1899 - 568 pages
...chyvalrye," " Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie," " And though that he was worthy, he was wys, " And of his port as meke as is a mayde. " He never yit no vileinye ne sayde " In al his lyf, unto no manor wight. " He was a verray perfight gentil knight."... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 226 pages
...increases the emphasis, but with the repetition of no leads to the climax in 72: He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde In al his lyf unto no maner wight. He was a verray, parftt, gentil knyght. '59 Sentence Structure The variety of sentence structure corresponds to the... | |
 | William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - English poetry - 1916 - 460 pages
...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, But for to tellen yow of his array, His hors 4 were gode, but he was uat gay.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 324 pages
...that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meeke as is a mayde. 70 He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde In al his lyf unto no maner wight. He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght. But for to tellen yow of his array. His hors were goode, but he was nat gay.... | |
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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... 
