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... womman al hire lyfe , Housbondes atte chirche dore hadde sche fyfe , Withouten othur companye in youthe . But therof needeth nought to speke as nouthe . And thries hadde sche ben at Jerusalem ; Sche hadde passud many a straunge streem ...
... womman al hire lyfe , Housbondes atte chirche dore hadde sche fyfe , Withouten othur companye in youthe . But therof needeth nought to speke as nouthe . And thries hadde sche ben at Jerusalem ; Sche hadde passud many a straunge streem ...
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... womman or goddesse ; But Venus is it , sothly , as I gesse . " And therwithal on knees adoun he fil , And seyde : " Venus , if it be youre wil Yow in this gardyn thus to transfigure , Biforn me sorwful wrecched creature , Out of this ...
... womman or goddesse ; But Venus is it , sothly , as I gesse . " And therwithal on knees adoun he fil , And seyde : " Venus , if it be youre wil Yow in this gardyn thus to transfigure , Biforn me sorwful wrecched creature , Out of this ...
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... womman or goddesse . Thyn is affeccioun of holynesse , And myn is love , as of a creature ; For which I tolde the myn aventure As to my cosyn , and my brother sworn . I pose , that thou lovedest hire biforn : 1137. - love . The Harl ...
... womman or goddesse . Thyn is affeccioun of holynesse , And myn is love , as of a creature ; For which I tolde the myn aventure As to my cosyn , and my brother sworn . I pose , that thou lovedest hire biforn : 1137. - love . The Harl ...
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... womman to a bere , And after was sche maad the loode - sterre : Thus was it peynted , I can say no ferre ; Hire son is eek a sterre , as men may see . Ther sawgh I Dyane turned intil a tree , I mene nought the goddes Dyane , But Peneus ...
... womman to a bere , And after was sche maad the loode - sterre : Thus was it peynted , I can say no ferre ; Hire son is eek a sterre , as men may see . Ther sawgh I Dyane turned intil a tree , I mene nought the goddes Dyane , But Peneus ...
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... womman travailyng was hire biforn , But for hire child so longe was unborn Ful pitously Lucyna gan sche calle , And seyde ; " Help , for thou mayst best of alle . " Wel couthe he peynte lyfly that it wrought , With many a floren he the ...
... womman travailyng was hire biforn , But for hire child so longe was unborn Ful pitously Lucyna gan sche calle , And seyde ; " Help , for thou mayst best of alle . " Wel couthe he peynte lyfly that it wrought , With many a floren he the ...
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Page 38 - WHILOM, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duk that highte Theseus; Of Athenes he was lord and governour, And in his tyme swich a conquerour, That gretter was ther non under the sonne. Ful many a riche contre...
Page 4 - Somtyme with the lord of Palatye, Ageyn another hethen in Turkye : And evermore he hadde a sovereyn prys. And though that he were worthy, he was wys, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yet no vileinye ne sayde 70 In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knight.
Page 23 - PERSOUN 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 parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 11 - Ful swetely herde he confessioun, And plesaunt was his absolucioun; He was an esy man to yeve penaunce Ther as he wiste...
Page 32 - He seyde, he hadde a gobet of the seyl That se'ynt Peter hadde, whan that he wente Up-on the see, til Jesu Crist him hente. He hadde a croys of latoun, ful of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones.
Page 3 - But natheles, whyl I have tyme and space, Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed...
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Page 32 - Than that the persoun gat in monthes tweye. And thus with feyned flaterie and japes, He made the persoun, and the poeple, his apes. But trewely to tellen atte laste, He was in churche a noble ecclesiaste.
Page 86 - Ligurge him-self, the grete king of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face. The cercles of his eyen in his heed, They gloweden...
Page 27 - That were of lawe expert and curious; Of which ther were a doseyn in that hous Worthy to been stiwardes of rente and lond Of any lord that is in Engelond, To make him live by his propre good...