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... thee , That art so pale and deedly on to see ? Why cridestow ? who hath thee doon offence ? For Goddes love , taak al in pacience Oure prisoun , for it may noon oother be ; Fortune hath yeven us this adversitee . Som wikke aspect or ...
... thee , That art so pale and deedly on to see ? Why cridestow ? who hath thee doon offence ? For Goddes love , taak al in pacience Oure prisoun , for it may noon oother be ; Fortune hath yeven us this adversitee . Som wikke aspect or ...
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... thee , outrély , For par amour I loved hire first er thow . What wiltow seyn ? thou wistest nat yet now Wheither she be a womman or goddesse ! Thyn is affeccióun of hoolynesse , And myn is love as to a creature ; For which I tolde thee ...
... thee , outrély , For par amour I loved hire first er thow . What wiltow seyn ? thou wistest nat yet now Wheither she be a womman or goddesse ! Thyn is affeccióun of hoolynesse , And myn is love as to a creature ; For which I tolde thee ...
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... thee . And Palamon , that hath swich love to me , And eek Arcite , that loveth me so soore , 2290. grene ook cerial , Boccaccio's ' quercia cereale , ' the holm oak . 2294. In Stace of Thebes , i.e. the Thebais of Statius , where ...
... thee . And Palamon , that hath swich love to me , And eek Arcite , that loveth me so soore , 2290. grene ook cerial , Boccaccio's ' quercia cereale , ' the holm oak . 2294. In Stace of Thebes , i.e. the Thebais of Statius , where ...
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... thee ones on a tyme mysfille , Whan Vulcanus hadde caught thee in his las , 2389 And foond thee liggynge by his wyf , allas ! For thilké sorwé that was in thyn herte , Have routheas wel upon my peynės smerte . Iam yong and unkonnynge ...
... thee ones on a tyme mysfille , Whan Vulcanus hadde caught thee in his las , 2389 And foond thee liggynge by his wyf , allas ! For thilké sorwé that was in thyn herte , Have routheas wel upon my peynės smerte . Iam yong and unkonnynge ...
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... thee and me . Hastow nat herd how saved was Noe , Whan that oure Lord hadde warned hym biforn That al the world with water sholde be lorn ? ' " Yis , ' quod this carpenter , ' ful yoore ago . ' Hastou nat herd , ' quod Nicholas , ' also ...
... thee and me . Hastow nat herd how saved was Noe , Whan that oure Lord hadde warned hym biforn That al the world with water sholde be lorn ? ' " Yis , ' quod this carpenter , ' ful yoore ago . ' Hastou nat herd , ' quod Nicholas , ' also ...
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Page 1 - Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Page 7 - That to the offrynge bifore hire sholde goon; And if ther dide, certeyn so wrooth was she, That she was out of alle charitee. Hir coverchiefs ful fyne weren of ground; I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound That on a Sonday weren upon hir heed.
Page 140 - But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralite, goode men.
Page 151 - This olde man gan loke in his visage, And seyde thus, "for I ne can nat finde A man, though that I walked in-to Inde, Neither in citee nor in no village, That wolde chaunge his youthe for myn age; And therfore moot I han myn age stille, As longe time as it is goddes wille.
Page 5 - A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also 285 That unto logyk hadde longe ygo. As leene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.
Page 25 - But this is yet the beste game of alle, That she, for whom they han this jolitee, Kan hem ther-fore as muche thank as me. She woot namoore of al this hoote fare, By God, than woot a cokkow or an hare.
Page 119 - Tragedie is to seyn, a certeyn storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of hym that stood in greet prosperitee And is yfallen out of heigh degree Into myserie, and endeth wrecchedly, And they ben versified communely Of six feet, which men clepen exametron.
Page 3 - After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe. At mete wel y-taught was she with-alle ; She leet no morsel from hir lippes falle, Ne wette hir fingres in hir sauce depe.
Page 8 - But it were any persone obstinat, What so he were, of heigh or lough estat, Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the nonys.
Page 15 - Till it fil ones, in a morwe of May, That Emelye, that fairer was to sene Than is the lylie upon his stalke grene, And fressher than the May with floures newe, — For with the rose colour stroof hire hewe, I noot which was the fyner of hem two, — Er it were day, as was hir wone to do, She was arisen and al redy dight...