Poetical Works: With an Essay on His Language and Versification and an Introductory Discourse. Together with Notes and a GlossaryRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 |
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... Withouten other compagnie in youthe . But therof nedeth not to speke as nouthe . And thries hadde she ben at Jerusaleme . She hadde passed many a strange streme . At Rome she hadde ben , and at Boloine , In Galice at Seint James , and ...
... Withouten other compagnie in youthe . But therof nedeth not to speke as nouthe . And thries hadde she ben at Jerusaleme . She hadde passed many a strange streme . At Rome she hadde ben , and at Boloine , In Galice at Seint James , and ...
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... withouten more speche . Our conseil was not longe for to seche : U's thought it was not worth to make it wise , And granted him withouten more avise , And bad him say his verdit , as him leste . Lordinges , ( quod he ) now herkeneth for ...
... withouten more speche . Our conseil was not longe for to seche : U's thought it was not worth to make it wise , And granted him withouten more avise , And bad him say his verdit , as him leste . Lordinges , ( quod he ) now herkeneth for ...
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... withouten more respite They fallen groff , and crien pitously ; Have on us wretched wimmen som mercy , And let our sorwe sinken in thin herte . This gentil duk doun from his courser sterte With herte pitous , whan he herd hem speke ...
... withouten more respite They fallen groff , and crien pitously ; Have on us wretched wimmen som mercy , And let our sorwe sinken in thin herte . This gentil duk doun from his courser sterte With herte pitous , whan he herd hem speke ...
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... withouten any raunson Duk Theseus him let out of prison , Frely to gon , wher that him list over all , In swiche a gise , as I you tellen shall . This was the forword , plainly for to endite , Betwixen Theseus and him Arcite : That if ...
... withouten any raunson Duk Theseus him let out of prison , Frely to gon , wher that him list over all , In swiche a gise , as I you tellen shall . This was the forword , plainly for to endite , Betwixen Theseus and him Arcite : That if ...
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... Withouten weting of any other wight , That here I wol be founden as a knight , And bringen harneis right ynough for thee ; And chese the beste , and leve the werste for me . And mete and drinke this night wol I bring Ynough for thee ...
... Withouten weting of any other wight , That here I wol be founden as a knight , And bringen harneis right ynough for thee ; And chese the beste , and leve the werste for me . And mete and drinke this night wol I bring Ynough for thee ...
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Page 4 - A good man ther was of religioun, That was a poure PERSONE of a toun: But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversite ful patient: And swiche he was ypreyed often sithes.
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Page 332 - O yonge fresshe folkes, he or she, In which that love up groweth with your age, Repeyreth hoom from worldly vanitee, And of your herte up-casteth the visage To thilke god that after his image Yow made, and thinketh al nis but a fayre This world, that passeth sone as floures fayre.
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