Poetical Works with Poems Formerly Printed with His Or Attributed to Him, Volume 3G. Bell & sons, 1880 |
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... frend ; Pleasaunt they be , and to their own purpose ; There wot no wight of them , but God and fiend , Ne naught shal wite , unto the worldes ende . * * * For men shall not so nere of counsel been With womanhede , ne knowen of her ...
... frend ; Pleasaunt they be , and to their own purpose ; There wot no wight of them , but God and fiend , Ne naught shal wite , unto the worldes ende . * * * For men shall not so nere of counsel been With womanhede , ne knowen of her ...
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... frend to whom she durst mone . Cryseyde was this lady name aright ; As to my dome , in al Troyes citee So fayr was none , for over every wight So angelik was her natyf beute , That lyke thing immortal seemyd she , 1 Speght reads by sort ...
... frend to whom she durst mone . Cryseyde was this lady name aright ; As to my dome , in al Troyes citee So fayr was none , for over every wight So angelik was her natyf beute , That lyke thing immortal seemyd she , 1 Speght reads by sort ...
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... frendly looke gladith me , swete , Yeve never no thing more ye me behete . ' These wordis and full many other mo He spak , and clepyd ever in his compleynte Crisseide , for to tellen her his woo , Till nygh that he in salte teris was ...
... frendly looke gladith me , swete , Yeve never no thing more ye me behete . ' These wordis and full many other mo He spak , and clepyd ever in his compleynte Crisseide , for to tellen her his woo , Till nygh that he in salte teris was ...
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... frend , ' quod he , ' if ever love or trouthe Hath bene , or is , betwix the and me , Ne do thow never such a cruelte , To hyde fro thy frend so grete a care ; Wost thow not wele that it am I , Pandare ? ' I wil partyn with the al thy ...
... frend , ' quod he , ' if ever love or trouthe Hath bene , or is , betwix the and me , Ne do thow never such a cruelte , To hyde fro thy frend so grete a care ; Wost thow not wele that it am I , Pandare ? ' I wil partyn with the al thy ...
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... frend ther fro : I have my self sene a blynd man go Ther as he fell that loke cowd wyde ; A fole may eke a wyse man oft gyde . ' A wheston is no kervyng instrument , But hit makith sharpe kervyng tolis , And that thow wost I have oght ...
... frend ther fro : I have my self sene a blynd man go Ther as he fell that loke cowd wyde ; A fole may eke a wyse man oft gyde . ' A wheston is no kervyng instrument , But hit makith sharpe kervyng tolis , And that thow wost I have oght ...
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Allas anone appears armes called cast cause Chaucer chere Cryseyde dede dere desire dethe doth doun drede eche ende faire falle floure Fortune frend fynde grace grete Harl hast hath herd herte hire holde honour joye knight lady lest leve lord lover manere means myght myn herte nece never nought nyght olde Pandare peyne pite pleyne poem quene quod reads rede ryghte says sche seyde seye seyne shal shold sone sore sorwe sothe speke swich ther therfor thing thou thought thow thynge toke told trewe trouthe Troylus tyme unto Venus wele whan whanne wher wight wise wist withoute withouten wolde wole wote wyse ywis
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