...feet in diameter." 168 APPENDIX III PASSAGES FROM CHAUCER'S "KNIGHTES TALE." (Ed. Morris.) " WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte...conquerour, That gretter was ther non under the sonne. 5 Ful many a riche contr^ hadde he wonne ; That with his wisdam and his chivalrie He conquered all...

...depreciatory sense. 16. I woo'd thee with my sword. Cf. Chaucer, Knightes Tale, I-I2— "Why lorn, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte...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 and his chivalrye...

...lifelike incident and characteristic detail, to make the scenes of the narrative fairly real. Whylom, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte...his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther noon under the sonne. These, the opening lines, transfer us at once into the mediaeval atmosphere of...

...lifelike incident and characteristic detail, to make the scenes of the narrative fairly real. Whylom, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte...his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther noon under the sonne. These, the opening lines, transfer us at once into the mediae^ atmosphere of...

...lifelike incident and characteristic detail, to make the scenes of the narrative fairly real. Whylom, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governom . And in his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther noon under the sonne. These, the...

...THE KXIGHTES TALE lamque domot patriot, Seithice peat aspera gentis Prelia lauriyero, etc. WHTLOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte...and governour, And in his tyme swich a conquerour, 5 That gretter was ther noon under the sonne. Ful many a riche contree hadde he wonne; That with his...

...Knyghtes Tale WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duc that highte Theseus ; 860 Of Atthenes he was lord and governour, And in his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther noon under the sonne. Ful many a riche cdntree hadde he wonne ; That with his wysdom and his chivalrie...

...domos patrias , Scithice post aspera gentis Prelia laurigero, &c. [Statius, Theb. xii. 519.] WHYLOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte Theseus ; (860) Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was...

...KNYGHTES TALE. Whilom, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a due that highte Theseus ; 860 Of Atthenes 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 ; That with his wisdom and his chivalrie...

...adverbs not in his swift fluid narrative. Look, for example, at the opening of the Knight's Tale: Whilom, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte Theseus. Chaucer. In days of old there liv'd, of mighty fame, A valiant Prince, and Theseus was his name. Dryden....