The Influence of Statius Upon Chaucer, Volume 194

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J. H. Furst, 1911 - Comparative literature - 144 pages

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Page 100 - A mayde, and love hunting and venerye, And for to walken in the wodes wilde, And noght to been a wyf, and be with childe.
Page 36 - Durabisne procul dominoque legere superstes, 810 o mihi bissenos multum vigilata per annos Thebai ? iam certe praesens tibi Fama benignum stravit iter coepitque novam monstrare futuris. iam te magnanimus dignatur noscere Caesar, Itala iam studio discit memoratque iuventus.
Page 8 - And fond, two othere ladyes sete and she With-inne a paved parlour; and they three Herden a mayden reden hem the geste Of the Sege of Thebes, whyl hem leste. 13. Quod Pandarus, 'ma dame, god yow see. With al your book and al the companye ! ' ' Ey, uncle myn, welcome y-wis...
Page 63 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth...
Page 36 - Vive, precor; nee tu divinam Aeneida tempta, Sed longe sequere et vestigia semper adora.
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Page 138 - It is wel wist, how that the Grekes stronge In armes with a thousand shippes wente To Troye-wardes, and the citee longe Assegeden neigh ten yeer er they stente, And, in diverse wyse and oon entente, The ravisshing to wreken of Eleyne, By Paris doon, they wroughten al hir peyne 10.
Page 5 - Criseyde for to love, and nought repente. 57. And of his song nought only the sentence, As writ myn autour called Lollius, But pleynly, save our tonges difference, I dar wel sayn, in al that Troilus Seyde in his song; lol every word right thus As I shal seyn; and who-so list it here, Lo ! next this vers, he may it finden here.

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