The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His WorksMacmillan Company, 1894 - 881 pages |
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... wyse , Meken ne souplen to servyse . For pryde is founde , in every part , Contrarie unto Loves art . And let no filthe upon thee be . Thy nailes blak if thou mayst see , Voide it awey deliverly , And kembe thyn heed right jolily . + ...
... wyse , Meken ne souplen to servyse . For pryde is founde , in every part , Contrarie unto Loves art . And let no filthe upon thee be . Thy nailes blak if thou mayst see , Voide it awey deliverly , And kembe thyn heed right jolily . + ...
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... wyse A lover shal do me servyse . Do it than , if thou wolt have The mede that thou aftir crave . ' 2720 Whan Love al this had boden me , I seide him : - Sire , how may it be That lovers may in such manere Endure the peyne ye have seid ...
... wyse A lover shal do me servyse . Do it than , if thou wolt have The mede that thou aftir crave . ' 2720 Whan Love al this had boden me , I seide him : - Sire , how may it be That lovers may in such manere Endure the peyne ye have seid ...
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... wyse , C. It was ordeyned , that Chastitee Shulde of the roser lady be , Which , of the botouns more and las , 3045 With sondry folk assailed was , That she ne wiste what to do . For Venus hir assailith so , That night and day from hir ...
... wyse , C. It was ordeyned , that Chastitee Shulde of the roser lady be , Which , of the botouns more and las , 3045 With sondry folk assailed was , That she ne wiste what to do . For Venus hir assailith so , That night and day from hir ...
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... wyse Trespace among , and do foly , Lat him not tarye , but hastily Lat him amende what so be mis . And eek I counseile thee , y - wis , The God of Love hoolly foryet , That hath thee in sich peyne set , 3241 3245 3250 And thee in herte ...
... wyse Trespace among , and do foly , Lat him not tarye , but hastily Lat him amende what so be mis . And eek I counseile thee , y - wis , The God of Love hoolly foryet , That hath thee in sich peyne set , 3241 3245 3250 And thee in herte ...
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... wyse may do wel , Ne sette his thought on no good werk . His scole he lesith , if he + be clerk ; Of other craft eek if he be , He shal not thryve therin ; for he In love shal have more passioun Than monke , hermyte , or chanoun . The ...
... wyse may do wel , Ne sette his thought on no good werk . His scole he lesith , if he + be clerk ; Of other craft eek if he be , He shal not thryve therin ; for he In love shal have more passioun Than monke , hermyte , or chanoun . The ...
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Page 544 - Ne him that is agast of every tool, Ne noon avauntour, by that god above! How dorste ye seyn for shame unto your love, That any thing mighte make yow aferd? Have ye no mannes herte, and han a berd?
Page 424 - She passed hem of Ypres and of Gaunt. In al the parisshe wyf ne was ther noon That to th' offring bifore hir sholde goon; And if ther dide, certeyn, so wrooth was she, That she was out of alle charitee. Hir coverchiefs ful fyne were of ground; I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound That on a Sonday were upon hir heed.
Page 430 - Syn I shal bigynne the game, What, welcome be the cut, a Goddes name! Now lat us ryde, and herkneth what I seye.
Page 572 - As help me God, whan that I saugh hym go After the beere, me thoughte he hadde a paire Of legges and of feet so clene and faire, That al myn herte I yaf unto his hoold.
Page 420 - Harneised wel, and sharp as point of spere; A Cristofre on his brest of silver shene. An horn he bar, the bawdrik was of grene; A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse. Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, That of hir smyling was ful simple and coy; Hir gretteste ooth was but by se•ynt Loy; 120 And she was cleped madame Eglentyne.
Page 423 - And many a breem and many a luce in stewe. 350 Wo was his cook, but-if his sauce were Poynaunt and sharp, and redy al his gere. His table dormant in his halle alway Stood redy covered al the longe day.
Page 421 - A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. His heed was balled that shoon as any glas, And eek his face as he had been anoint. He was a lord ful fat and in good point...
Page 422 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 428 - Or feyne thing, or finde wordes newe. He may nat spare, al-thogh he were his brother; He moot as wel seye o word as another. Crist spak him-self ful brode in holy writ, And wel ye woot, no vileinye is it. 74 Eek Plato seith, who-so that can him rede, The wordes mote be cosin to the dede.
Page 547 - His seven wyves walking by his syde, Caste up his eyen to the brighte sonne, That in the signe of Taurus hadde y-ronne Twenty degrees and oon, and somwhat more; And knew by kynde,"' and by noon other lore, That it was pryme, and crew with blisful stevene.