More Odd Texts of Chaucer's Minor PoemsChaucer Society, 1886 - 52 pages |
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... leaf to my Odd Texts Appendix , I still maintain is not Chaucer's . Nor can I acknowledge as genuine either of the other supposititious poems - An amorous Compleint , p . 218 ; Balade of Compleint , p . 222 - which Prof. Skeat has ...
... leaf to my Odd Texts Appendix , I still maintain is not Chaucer's . Nor can I acknowledge as genuine either of the other supposititious poems - An amorous Compleint , p . 218 ; Balade of Compleint , p . 222 - which Prof. Skeat has ...
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... leaves vellum , 1 paper . ab . 1450 A.D. ) . ] S ( 31 ) ( Compleint 1. Proem . ) o thirlith with the poynte of remembraunce [ leaf A ] 211 The Swerde of sorowe y - whett with fals plesaunce My herte bare of blys and blak ' of hewe That ...
... leaves vellum , 1 paper . ab . 1450 A.D. ) . ] S ( 31 ) ( Compleint 1. Proem . ) o thirlith with the poynte of remembraunce [ leaf A ] 211 The Swerde of sorowe y - whett with fals plesaunce My herte bare of blys and blak ' of hewe That ...
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... [ leaf A , back ] 220 For I. lovid oon with all my hert and mygħt More than my self an hundreth M1 sith And callid hym myñ hertes day and my knygħt And was at his als fer as it was right [ MI = thousand ] 224 And whan that he was glad ...
... [ leaf A , back ] 220 For I. lovid oon with all my hert and mygħt More than my self an hundreth M1 sith And callid hym myñ hertes day and my knygħt And was at his als fer as it was right [ MI = thousand ] 224 And whan that he was glad ...
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... [ leaf B ] I - wys your loue I by it aH to dere . 255 ( 36 ) ( Compleint 6 ; Movement I. 5. ) Nowe certes swete yf that ye 256 Thus causeles decaused be Of my dedely aduersite Youre namely resoune hath it to respite 259 To sle your frende ...
... [ leaf B ] I - wys your loue I by it aH to dere . 255 ( 36 ) ( Compleint 6 ; Movement I. 5. ) Nowe certes swete yf that ye 256 Thus causeles decaused be Of my dedely aduersite Youre namely resoune hath it to respite 259 To sle your frende ...
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... [ leaf B , back ] 299 Nay rather dye than do so fowle a dede To aske mercy causeles what nede [ • · But if that I to you may no nother wayes bede For myn excuse a skorne shall be my mede Your chere floureth but yt wol not sede Full longe ...
... [ leaf B , back ] 299 Nay rather dye than do so fowle a dede To aske mercy causeles what nede [ • · But if that I to you may no nother wayes bede For myn excuse a skorne shall be my mede Your chere floureth but yt wol not sede Full longe ...
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Page 35 - STEDFASTNESS. [Hatton MS. 73, leaf 119. (Bodl. Libr.).] These baladdis were send! to the kyng1. (1) Sumtyme this world! was so stedefast And stable 1 that mawnes word! was obligacioun) But now it is so fals And disceyvable that word! and dede as in conclusioun) 4 ben no thyng1 on for turned! vp so doun) Is al this world! for mede and wilfulnesse that al is lost for lak of stedefastnesse 7 (2) IT What maketh