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... fair faces and flaxen hair of a group of Saxon youths exposed for sale in the slave - market ยท at Rome . " Who are they ? " he asked . " Angles , " was the reply . " It suits them well , " he said , " with faces so angel - like . From ...
... fair faces and flaxen hair of a group of Saxon youths exposed for sale in the slave - market ยท at Rome . " Who are they ? " he asked . " Angles , " was the reply . " It suits them well , " he said , " with faces so angel - like . From ...
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... fair of face . He seemeth elfish by his countenance , For unto no wight doth he dalliance . ' " While the outward circumstances of Chaucer's life are so imperfectly known , we have abundant means to judge of his character and ...
... fair of face . He seemeth elfish by his countenance , For unto no wight doth he dalliance . ' " While the outward circumstances of Chaucer's life are so imperfectly known , we have abundant means to judge of his character and ...
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... fair forheed , It was almost a spanne brood , I trowe ; For hardily sche was not undergrowe . Ful fetys was hire cloke , as I was waar . Of smal coral aboute hire arm sche baar A peire of bedes gauded al with grene ; And theron heng a ...
... fair forheed , It was almost a spanne brood , I trowe ; For hardily sche was not undergrowe . Ful fetys was hire cloke , as I was waar . Of smal coral aboute hire arm sche baar A peire of bedes gauded al with grene ; And theron heng a ...
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... fair prelate ; He was not pale as a for - pyned goost . A fat swan lovede he best of eny roost . His palfrey was as broun as is a berye . A FRERE ther was , a wantown and a merye , A lymytour , a ful solempne man . In alle the ordres ...
... fair prelate ; He was not pale as a for - pyned goost . A fat swan lovede he best of eny roost . His palfrey was as broun as is a berye . A FRERE ther was , a wantown and a merye , A lymytour , a ful solempne man . In alle the ordres ...
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... fair burgeys , To sitten in a geldehalle on a deys . Everych for the wisdom that he can , Was schaply for to ben an alderman . For catel hadde they inough and rente , And eek here wyfes wolde it wel assente ; And elles certeyn were thei ...
... fair burgeys , To sitten in a geldehalle on a deys . Everych for the wisdom that he can , Was schaply for to ben an alderman . For catel hadde they inough and rente , And eek here wyfes wolde it wel assente ; And elles certeyn were thei ...
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