The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Remaunt of the rose. The minor poemsH. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 |
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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 248 - 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.
Page 253 - Trouthe is put doun, resoun is holden fable ; Vertu hath now no dominacioun, Pitee exyled, no man is merciable. Through covetyse is blent discrecioun ; The world hath mad a permutacioun Fro right to wrong, fro trouthe to fikelnesse, That al is lost, for lak of stedfastnesse.
Page 247 - ... your word wol helen hastily My hertes wounde, whyl that hit is grene, Your yen two wol slee me sodenly, I may the beaute of hem not sustene. Upon my trouthe I sey yow feithfully, That ye ben of my lyf and deeth the quene ; For with my deeth the trouthe shal be sene. Your...
Page 204 - So sore y-wis, that whan I on him thinke, Nat wot I wel wher that I wake or winke.
Page 253 - 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 249 - That at a revel whan that I see you daunce, It is an oynement unto my wounde, Thogh ye to me ne do no daliaunce. For...
Page 249 - Thogh ye to me ne do no daliaunce." Nas never pyk walwed in galauntyne As I in love am walwed and ywounde, For which ful ofte I of myself devyne That I am trewe Tristam the secounde.
Page 248 - So greet beaute, that no man may atteyne To mercy, though he sterve for the peyne. So hath your beaut'e fro your herte chaced Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne ; 25 For Daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.
Page 204 - 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 223 - Now welcom somer, with thy sonne softe, That hast this wintres weders over-shake, And driven awey the longe nightes blake...