The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury TalesHoughton Mifflin, 1899 - 61 pages |
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... coude he sitte on hors , and faire ride . 15 He coude songes make and wel endite , Juste and eek daunce , and wel purtreye and write So hote he lovede , that by nyghtertale He sleep namore than doth a nyghtyngale . Curteys he was ...
... coude he sitte on hors , and faire ride . 15 He coude songes make and wel endite , Juste and eek daunce , and wel purtreye and write So hote he lovede , that by nyghtertale He sleep namore than doth a nyghtyngale . Curteys he was ...
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... coude she carie a morsel , and wel kepe Thát no drope ne fille upon hir brest . In curteisye was set ful moche hir lest . 115. A Cristofre , an image of St. Christopher , who pro- tects against accidents . Erasmus ridicules this ...
... coude she carie a morsel , and wel kepe Thát no drope ne fille upon hir brest . In curteisye was set ful moche hir lest . 115. A Cristofre , an image of St. Christopher , who pro- tects against accidents . Erasmus ridicules this ...
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... coude he synge and pleyen on a rote . Of yeddynges he bar utterly the pris . His nekke whit was as the flour - de - lys . Therto he strong was as a champioun . 240 He knew the tavernes wel in every toun , And everich hostiler and ...
... coude he synge and pleyen on a rote . Of yeddynges he bar utterly the pris . His nekke whit was as the flour - de - lys . Therto he strong was as a champioun . 240 He knew the tavernes wel in every toun , And everich hostiler and ...
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... coude as it were right a whelpe In love - dayes ther coude he mochel helpe . For ther he was nat lyk a cloisterer , 260 With a thredbare cope , as is a povre scoler , But he was lyk a maister or a pope . Of double worsted was his semi ...
... coude as it were right a whelpe In love - dayes ther coude he mochel helpe . For ther he was nat lyk a cloisterer , 260 With a thredbare cope , as is a povre scoler , But he was lyk a maister or a pope . Of double worsted was his semi ...
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... coude he in eschaunge sheeldes selle . This worthy man ful wel his wit bisette ; 28 Ther wiste no wight that he was in dette , So estatly was he of his governaunce , With his bargaynes , and with his chevisaunce . For sothe he was a ...
... coude he in eschaunge sheeldes selle . This worthy man ful wel his wit bisette ; 28 Ther wiste no wight that he was in dette , So estatly was he of his governaunce , With his bargaynes , and with his chevisaunce . For sothe he was a ...
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Page 11 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do?
Page 1 - And sikerly she was of greet disport, And ful plesaunt, and amiable of port, And peyned hir to countrefete chere Of court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence.
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Page 11 - Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace, That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace The wisdom of an heep of lerned men?
Page 7 - For sothe he was a worthy man with-alle, But sooth to seyn, I noot how men him calle. A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That un-to logik hadde longe y-go.