The poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Remaunt of the rose. The minor poemsH. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906 |
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... Wolde have ful greet necessitee Of clothing , er she boughte hir newe , Al were it bad of wolle and hewe . This Avarice held in hir hande A purs , that heng doun by a bande ; And that she hidde and bond so stronge , Men must abyde ...
... Wolde have ful greet necessitee Of clothing , er she boughte hir newe , Al were it bad of wolle and hewe . This Avarice held in hir hande A purs , that heng doun by a bande ; And that she hidde and bond so stronge , Men must abyde ...
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... wolde she . And if he were so hende and wys , That she ne mighte al abate his prys , Yit wolde she blame his worthinesse , Or by hir wordes make it lesse . I saugh Envye , in that peynting , Hadde a wonderful loking ; For she ne loked ...
... wolde she . And if he were so hende and wys , That she ne mighte al abate his prys , Yit wolde she blame his worthinesse , Or by hir wordes make it lesse . I saugh Envye , in that peynting , Hadde a wonderful loking ; For she ne loked ...
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... softe had be . Hir eres shoken fast withalle , As from her heed they wolde falle . Hir face frounced and forpyned , And bothe hir hondes lorn , fordwyned . So old she was that she ne wente A foot 12 THE POETICAL WORKS.
... softe had be . Hir eres shoken fast withalle , As from her heed they wolde falle . Hir face frounced and forpyned , And bothe hir hondes lorn , fordwyned . So old she was that she ne wente A foot 12 THE POETICAL WORKS.
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... wolde have caroled right fayn , As man that was to daunce blythe . Than gan I loken ofte sythe The shap , the bodies , and the cheres , The countenaunce and the maneres Of alle the folk that daunced there , And I shal telle what they ...
... wolde have caroled right fayn , As man that was to daunce blythe . Than gan I loken ofte sythe The shap , the bodies , and the cheres , The countenaunce and the maneres Of alle the folk that daunced there , And I shal telle what they ...
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... wolde hir love deserve , They cleped hir Lady , ' grete and smalle ; This wyde world hir dredeth alle ; This world is al in hir daungere . Hir court hath many a losengere , And many a traytour envious , That been ful besy and curious ...
... wolde hir love deserve , They cleped hir Lady , ' grete and smalle ; This wyde world hir dredeth alle ; This world is al in hir daungere . Hir court hath many a losengere , And many a traytour envious , That been ful besy and curious ...
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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...