“The” Poetical Works “of Geoffrey Chaucer”, Volume 6Bell and Daldy, 1866 - 312 pages |
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... nygh ynough , Was peynted Envye , that never lough , Nor never wel in hir herte farede But if she outher saugh or herede Som gret myschaunce , or gret disese . No thyng may so moch hir plese As myschef and mysaventure ; Or whan she ...
... nygh ynough , Was peynted Envye , that never lough , Nor never wel in hir herte farede But if she outher saugh or herede Som gret myschaunce , or gret disese . No thyng may so moch hir plese As myschef and mysaventure ; Or whan she ...
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... nygh wode , Whan any chaunge happith gode . Envie is of such crueltee , That feith ne trouthe holdith she To freend ne felawe , bad or good . Ne she hath kynne noon of hir blood , That she nys ful her enemye . She nolde , I dar seyn ...
... nygh wode , Whan any chaunge happith gode . Envie is of such crueltee , That feith ne trouthe holdith she To freend ne felawe , bad or good . Ne she hath kynne noon of hir blood , That she nys ful her enemye . She nolde , I dar seyn ...
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... nygh forsongen were . And thrustles , terins , and mavys , That songen for to wynne hem prys , And eke to sormounte in her songe That other briddes hem amonge , By note made faire servyse . These briddes , that I you devise , They songe ...
... nygh forsongen were . And thrustles , terins , and mavys , That songen for to wynne hem prys , And eke to sormounte in her songe That other briddes hem amonge , By note made faire servyse . These briddes , that I you devise , They songe ...
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... nygh no plenté heere is . There were elmes grete and stronge , Maples , asshe , oke , aspe , planes longe , Fyne ew , popler , and lyndes faire , And othere trees fulle many a payre . What shulde I telle you more of it ? There were so ...
... nygh no plenté heere is . There were elmes grete and stronge , Maples , asshe , oke , aspe , planes longe , Fyne ew , popler , and lyndes faire , And othere trees fulle many a payre . What shulde I telle you more of it ? There were so ...
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... nygh to her sesoun , And spedde hem faste for to sprede ; I love welle sich roses rede ; For brode roses , and open also , Ben passed in a day or two ; But knoppes wille freshe be Two dayes atte leest , or thre . The knoppes gretly ...
... nygh to her sesoun , And spedde hem faste for to sprede ; I love welle sich roses rede ; For brode roses , and open also , Ben passed in a day or two ; But knoppes wille freshe be Two dayes atte leest , or thre . The knoppes gretly ...
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Page 294 - For whiche un-to your mercy thus I crye: Beth hevy ageyn, or elles mot I dye!
Page 304 - Upon my trouth I sey yow feithfully, That ye ben of my liffe and deth the quene ; For with my deth the trouth shal be sene. Youre two eyn, &c. II. 1. So hath youre beauty fro your herte chased Pitee, that me n' availeth not to pleyn : For daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.
Page 3 - Hard is the hert that loveth nought In May, whan al this mirth is wrought ; Whan he may on these braunches here...
Page 35 - The stoon so clere was and so bright, That also soone as it was nyght, Men myght[e] seen to go for nede A myle or two in lengthe and brede.
Page 37 - For she right there hadde in present Unto a lady maad present Of a gold broche, ful wel «/-wrought. And certys it myssatte hir nought; For thorough hir smokke wrought with silk, The flesh was seen as white as mylk.
Page 266 - So as my troubled wit may hit atteyne, I wol reherse; not for to have redresse, But to declare my ground of hevynesse.
Page 4 - Joly and gay, ful of gladnesse, Toward a ryver gan I me dresse, That I herd renne faste by ; For fairer playing non saugh I Than playen me by that ryvere, For from an hille that stood ther nere, Cam doun the...
Page 305 - Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, 1 never thenk to ben in his prison lene. Love hath my name y-strike out of his sclat, And he is strike out of my bokes clene For ever-mo; ther is non other mene.
Page 17 - Til atte last bithought I me, That by no weye ne myght it be, That ther nas laddre or wey to passe, Or hole, into so faire a place. Tho gan I go a...
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