Longman's Handbook of English Literature: From the earliest times to ChaucerLongmans, Green, and Company, 1888 - English literature |
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Page 97 - Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 90 - But sore weep she if oon of hem were deed, Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte: And al was conscience and tendre herte.
Page 94 - Ligurge him-self, the grete king of Trace; Blak was his berd, and manly was his face. The cercles of his eyen in his heed, They gloweden...
Page 68 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into, Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 90 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.
Page 98 - What man art thou ?" quod he. " Thou lokest as thou woldest fynde an hare, For ever upon the ground I se the stare. " Approche ner, and loke merily.
Page 103 - May game for the sheriffs and aldermen of London, a mumming before the Lord Mayor, a procession of pageants, from the " Creation," for the Festival of Corpus Christi, or a carol for the coronation, Lydgate was consulted, and gave the poetry.
Page 93 - This maked Emelye han remembrance To do honour to May, and for to ryse. I-clothed was sche fressh for to devyse. 190 Hire yolwe heer was browdid in a tresse, Byhynde hire bak, a yerde long I gesse. And in the gardyn at the sonne upriste Sche walketh up and doun wher as hire liste. Sche gadereth floures, party whyte and reede, To make a sotil gerland for hire heede, And as an aungel hevenly sche song.