More Odd Texts of Chaucer's Minor PoemsChaucer Society, 1886 - 52 pages |
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... line stanzas , 2. in terza - rima , imperfect , 3. in 10 - line stanzas ; but as they are all on the same subject , and the MSS . run them into one another , there is no great harm in keeping them under one head , in separate sections ...
... line stanzas , 2. in terza - rima , imperfect , 3. in 10 - line stanzas ; but as they are all on the same subject , and the MSS . run them into one another , there is no great harm in keeping them under one head , in separate sections ...
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... is not worth much . See the Hunterian Society's print of the Bannatyne MS . See also Skeat's Minor Poems , p . xliii , line 1 , and p . xxxv , the lower half . Principis that I didn't think The Mother of God could 6 FOREWORDS .
... is not worth much . See the Hunterian Society's print of the Bannatyne MS . See also Skeat's Minor Poems , p . xliii , line 1 , and p . xxxv , the lower half . Principis that I didn't think The Mother of God could 6 FOREWORDS .
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... from the two main classes of the MSS . by leaving out ping and its variant good in 1. 2 ; and reading ' Suffise the thyne owne , ' a unique half - line , I believe . ] 28 TRUTH . HATTON MS . 73 . TRUTH . PAR . - TEXT 408-409.
... from the two main classes of the MSS . by leaving out ping and its variant good in 1. 2 ; and reading ' Suffise the thyne owne , ' a unique half - line , I believe . ] 28 TRUTH . HATTON MS . 73 . TRUTH . PAR . - TEXT 408-409.
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... lines start level in the MS . , but are inset here , to show the structure of the poem . This copy is from one of ... line Stanzas , 1 ) ¶ The longe nyghtis . whan euery creature Shuld have theyr rest . in somwhat be kynde Or ellis ne ...
... lines start level in the MS . , but are inset here , to show the structure of the poem . This copy is from one of ... line Stanzas , 1 ) ¶ The longe nyghtis . whan euery creature Shuld have theyr rest . in somwhat be kynde Or ellis ne ...
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... line Stanzas , 1 ] ¶ In my trewe careful hert . there is So moche woo . and so litel blisse That ' woo is me . that euer I was bore For al thyng whiche I desire I mysse And al that euer I wold nat Iwisse 30 3333 36 38 39 40 43 That fynd ...
... line Stanzas , 1 ] ¶ In my trewe careful hert . there is So moche woo . and so litel blisse That ' woo is me . that euer I was bore For al thyng whiche I desire I mysse And al that euer I wold nat Iwisse 30 3333 36 38 39 40 43 That fynd ...
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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