Poetical Works with Poems Formerly Printed with His Or Attributed to Him, Volume 4G. Bell & sons, 1880 |
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... Wolde have ful gret necessite Of clothyng , er she bought hir newe , Al were it bad of wolle and hewe . This Avarice hilde in hir hande A purs , that henge by a bande ; And that she hidde and bonde so strong , Men must abyde wondir long ...
... Wolde have ful gret necessite Of clothyng , er she bought hir newe , Al were it bad of wolle and hewe . This Avarice hilde in hir hande A purs , that henge by a bande ; And that she hidde and bonde so strong , Men must abyde wondir long ...
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... wolde she . And if he were so hende and wis , That she ne myght al abate his pris , Yit wolde she blame his worthynesse , Or by hir wordis make it lesse . I saugh Envie in that peyntyng , Hadde a wondirful lokyng ; For she ne lokide but ...
... wolde she . And if he were so hende and wis , That she ne myght al abate his pris , Yit wolde she blame his worthynesse , Or by hir wordis make it lesse . I saugh Envie in that peyntyng , Hadde a wondirful lokyng ; For she ne lokide but ...
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... wolde hir sorowe slake , Nor comfort noon unto hir take . So depe was hir wo bigonnen , And eek hir hert in angre ronnen , A sorowful thyng wel semed she . Nor she hadde no thyng slowe be For to forcrachen al hir face , And for to rent ...
... wolde hir sorowe slake , Nor comfort noon unto hir take . So depe was hir wo bigonnen , And eek hir hert in angre ronnen , A sorowful thyng wel semed she . Nor she hadde no thyng slowe be For to forcrachen al hir face , And for to rent ...
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... wolde falle . Hir face frounced and forpyned , And bothe hir hondes lorne for dwined . So old she was that she ne went A fote , but it were by potent . " The tyme , that passeth night and day , And restlesly travayleth ay , And steleth ...
... wolde falle . Hir face frounced and forpyned , And bothe hir hondes lorne for dwined . So old she was that she ne went A fote , but it were by potent . " The tyme , that passeth night and day , And restlesly travayleth ay , And steleth ...
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... wolde , Alle though she hir clothis solde , And though she shulde anhonged be , For nakid as a worme was she . And if the wedir stormy were , For colde she shulde have deyd there . grace , 1 That is , Yielded or devoted to a monastic ...
... wolde , Alle though she hir clothis solde , And though she shulde anhonged be , For nakid as a worme was she . And if the wedir stormy were , For colde she shulde have deyd there . grace , 1 That is , Yielded or devoted to a monastic ...
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Page 353 - Which as me thought was right a pleasant sight, And eke the briddes songe for to here, Would have rejoiced any earthly wight, And I that couth not yet in no manere Heare the nightingale of all the yeare, Ful busily herkened with herte and with eare, If I her voice perceive coud any where.
Page 355 - If it had ones felt this savour sote. And as I stood and cast aside mine eie, I was ware of the fairest medler tree, That ever yet in all my life I sie...
Page 358 - So great a noise of thundering trumpes blow, As though it should have departed the skie ; And after that within a while I sie, From the same grove whe,re the ladies come out, Of men of armes comming such a rout, As all the men on earth had been assembled In that place...
Page 356 - That gave so passing a delicious smell, According to the eglentere full well. Whereof I had so inly great pleasure, That, as me thought, I surely ravished was Into Paradise, where my desire Was for to be...
Page 369 - And for to sing they pained hem both as sore, As they had do of all the day before. And so these ladies rode forth a great pace, And all the rout of knightes eke in fere; And I that had seen...
Page 352 - As I lay in my bed slepe full unmete Was unto me, but why that I ne might Rest I ne wist, for there n'as erthly wight [As I suppose] had more of hertis ese Than I, for I n'ad sicknesse nor disese,
Page 334 - Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 61 - Such plente grew there never in mede. Ful gay was al the ground, and queynt, And poudred, as men had it peynt. With many a fressh and sondri flour, That casten up ful good savour.
Page 339 - As doon thise loveres in hir queynte geres, Now in the croppe, now doun in the breres, Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle.
Page 14 - That it was May me thoughte tho, It is fyve yere or more ago ; That it was May, thus dremed me, In tyme of love and lolitee, That al thing ginneth waxen gay, For ther is neither busk nor hay In May, that it nil shrouded been, And it with newe leves wreen.