The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: a new text with illustrative notes, Volume 2Percy Society, 1847 |
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... told him al the secré that thay knewe , For here acqueintaunce was not come of newe ; Thay were his approwours prively . He took himself a gret profyt therby : His maister knew nat alway what he wan . Withoute maundement , a lewed man ...
... told him al the secré that thay knewe , For here acqueintaunce was not come of newe ; Thay were his approwours prively . He took himself a gret profyt therby : His maister knew nat alway what he wan . Withoute maundement , a lewed man ...
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... told it in his eere . Thus was the wenche and he of oon assent . And he wold fecche a feyned maundement , And sompne hem to chapitre bothe tuo , And pyle the man , and let the wenche go . Than wold he sayn : " I schal , frend , for thy ...
... told it in his eere . Thus was the wenche and he of oon assent . And he wold fecche a feyned maundement , And sompne hem to chapitre bothe tuo , And pyle the man , and let the wenche go . Than wold he sayn : " I schal , frend , for thy ...
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... told hem the . For but thou axid whi laboure we ; 7060 7044 - take . The Harl . MS . has make , but the reading of the Lansd . MS . , here adopted , seems best . 7045 - yow seme , i.e. make it seem to you . Tyrwhitt reads wene , but the ...
... told hem the . For but thou axid whi laboure we ; 7060 7044 - take . The Harl . MS . has make , but the reading of the Lansd . MS . , here adopted , seems best . 7045 - yow seme , i.e. make it seem to you . Tyrwhitt reads wene , but the ...
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... pardé ! " " Lo ! brother , " quod the feend , " what told I the ? 7130 - se play . The Lansd . MS . reads , have a pleie . Tyrwhitt's reading is , have a pray . 66 Her may ye seen , myn owne deere brother 12 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... pardé ! " " Lo ! brother , " quod the feend , " what told I the ? 7130 - se play . The Lansd . MS . reads , have a pleie . Tyrwhitt's reading is , have a pray . 66 Her may ye seen , myn owne deere brother 12 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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... told yow , " quod the frere , " Had I had leysir for this Sompnour here , After the text of Crist , and Powel , and Jon , And of oure other doctours many oon , Such peynes that our herte might agrise , Al be it so , no tonge may devyse ...
... told yow , " quod the frere , " Had I had leysir for this Sompnour here , After the text of Crist , and Powel , and Jon , And of oure other doctours many oon , Such peynes that our herte might agrise , Al be it so , no tonge may devyse ...
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