The Poetical Works of Geoffrey ChaucerG. Richards, 1903 |
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... Within my twenty yere of age , Whan that Love taketh his corage Of yonge folk , I wente sone To bedde , as I was wont to done , And fast I sleep ; and in sleping , 3 Me mette swiche a swevening , That lykede me wonders Fragment A •
... Within my twenty yere of age , Whan that Love taketh his corage Of yonge folk , I wente sone To bedde , as I was wont to done , And fast I sleep ; and in sleping , 3 Me mette swiche a swevening , That lykede me wonders Fragment A •
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... folk entenden ay For to ben gay and amorous , The tyme is than so savorous . Hard is his herte that loveth nought In May , whan al this mirth is wrought ; Whan he may on these braunches here The smale briddes singen clere Hir blisful ...
... folk entenden ay For to ben gay and amorous , The tyme is than so savorous . Hard is his herte that loveth nought In May , whan al this mirth is wrought ; Whan he may on these braunches here The smale briddes singen clere Hir blisful ...
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... folk , in many gyse , To take and yeve right nought ageyn , And grete tresours up to leyn . And that is she that for usure Leneth to many a creature The lasse for the more winning , So coveitous is her brenning . And that is she , for ...
... folk , in many gyse , To take and yeve right nought ageyn , And grete tresours up to leyn . And that is she that for usure Leneth to many a creature The lasse for the more winning , So coveitous is her brenning . And that is she , for ...
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... folk doth good , That nigh she melteth for pure wood ; Hir herte kerveth and to - breketh That god the peple wel awreketh . Envye , y - wis , shal never lette Som blame upon the folk to sette . I trowe that if Envye , y - wis , Knewe ...
... folk doth good , That nigh she melteth for pure wood ; Hir herte kerveth and to - breketh That god the peple wel awreketh . Envye , y - wis , shal never lette Som blame upon the folk to sette . I trowe that if Envye , y - wis , Knewe ...
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... folk , had maad hir elde So inly , that , to my witing , She mighte helpe hir - self no - thing , But turned ageyn unto childhede ; She had no - thing hir - self to lede , Ne wit ne pith inwith hir holde More than a child of two yeer ...
... folk , had maad hir elde So inly , that , to my witing , She mighte helpe hir - self no - thing , But turned ageyn unto childhede ; She had no - thing hir - self to lede , Ne wit ne pith inwith hir holde More than a child of two yeer ...
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Page 297 - But-if he can, by som collusioun, Don his neighbour wrong or oppressioun. What causeth this, but wilful wrecchednesse, That al is lost, for lak of stedfastnesse...
Page 297 - Son tyme this world was so stedfast and stable, That mannes word was obligacioun, And now hit is so fals and deceivable, That word and deed, as in conclusioun, Ben no-thing lyk, for turned up so doun Is al this world for mede and wilfulnesse, That al is lost for lak of stedfastnesse.
Page 292 - So greet beaute, that no man may atteyne To mercy, though he sterve for the peyne. So hath your beaute fro your herte chaced Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne ; For Daunger kait your mercy in his cheyne.
Page 248 - For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this newe corn fro yeer to yere ; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
Page 306 - For whiche un-to your mercy thus I crye : Beth hevy ageyn, or elles mot I dye ! Now voucheth sauf this day, or...
Page 300 - But al shal passe that men prose or ryme ; Take every man his turn, as for his tyme. Envoy. Scogan, that knelest at the stremes heed Of grace, of alle honour and worthinesse, In thende of which streme...
Page 293 - Thogh ye to me ne do no daliaunce. Nas never pyk walwed in galauntyne As I in love am walwed and y-wounde; For which full ofte I of my-self divyne That I am trewe Tristam the secounde.
Page 248 - The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th'assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne: Al this mene I by Love, that my...
Page 294 - Werk wel thy-self, that other folk canst rede; And trouthe shal delivere, hit is no drede. Tempest thee noght al croked to redresse, In trust of hir that turneth as a bal : Gret reste stant...
Page 292 - Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene. He may answere, and seye this or that; 30 I do no fors, I speke right as I mene.