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" But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre... "
The Prologue from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Page 7
by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1899 - 61 pages
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Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer: Collected from ...

Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 466 pages
...in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, 300 But all th.-.t he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lernirtg he ft spente, And besily...
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Illustrations of the Lives and Writings of Gower and Chaucer: Collected from ...

Henry John Todd - Narrative poetry, English - 1810 - 470 pages
...in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, 300 But all th t he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it sperite, And besily gan...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...in black and red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophic, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente5, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 1

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 468 pages
...in blaek or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riehe, or Iidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in eofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 1

English literature - 1833 - 546 pages
...fidel, or sautrie — Sautrie is psaltry, a kind of harp or dulcimer to sing psalms to : — But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in coi're — " Yet" is a pleasant assumption ; as if anything else was expected of philosophy ! or perhaps...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 400 pages
...in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...in black or red, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche; or fidel ; or sautrie: But all behold instead Of us out-cast, exil'd, his new delight, Mankind cre But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on leming he it spente; And besily gan for...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...blaek or red, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riehe ; or fidel ; or sautrie : But all th the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or th eofre ; But all that he might of his (rendes hente. On bokes and on leming he it spente ; And besily...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, (a) Farm. (6) What he obtained. But all that he might of his frendes hente, (a) On bokes and on Icrning...
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The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and ..., Volume 1

Geoffrey Chaucer - 1830 - 364 pages
...black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. zge But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre, But all that he might of his frendes hente, On bokes and on lerning he it spente, And besily gan for...
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