A Temporary Preface to the Six-text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Part 1, Attempting to Show the True Order of the Tales, and the Days and Stages of the Pilgrimage |
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... elles wil not such dispens endure , But thynketh it is wasted and i - lost , Than moot another paye for oure cost , Or lene us gold , that is perilous . 14422 These expressions are in both cases irreconcilable with the sup- posed ...
... elles wil not such dispens endure , But thynketh it is wasted and i - lost , Than moot another paye for oure cost , Or lene us gold , that is perilous . 14422 These expressions are in both cases irreconcilable with the sup- posed ...
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... elles for hys sermon To part a - monge his bretheren whan he come home And bus ys pis tale ydon For we were almoste at þe town . HERE ENDETHE þE SOMPNOURS TALE . I incline to think that Chaucer's first draft of the Sompnour's Tale ended ...
... elles for hys sermon To part a - monge his bretheren whan he come home And bus ys pis tale ydon For we were almoste at þe town . HERE ENDETHE þE SOMPNOURS TALE . I incline to think that Chaucer's first draft of the Sompnour's Tale ended ...
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... Elles- mere MS , and the Harleian 7334 , independently of Mr Bradshaw , it was only in consequence of his insistance on the general principle of Fragments . If , since seeing his Trial - Scheme , I have felt obliged to differ from parts ...
... Elles- mere MS , and the Harleian 7334 , independently of Mr Bradshaw , it was only in consequence of his insistance on the general principle of Fragments . If , since seeing his Trial - Scheme , I have felt obliged to differ from parts ...
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... Elles . ... moote yeue5 ... ... 291 Harl . For he hadde nought geten him yit a benefice 1 Elles . 6 geten him yet no ... p . 295-309 . The poems are certainly not Chaucer's . The first begins Half in dede sclepe , not fully revyved ...
... Elles . ... moote yeue5 ... ... 291 Harl . For he hadde nought geten him yit a benefice 1 Elles . 6 geten him yet no ... p . 295-309 . The poems are certainly not Chaucer's . The first begins Half in dede sclepe , not fully revyved ...
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... Elles . so worldly for to haue 320 Harl . His purchasyng might nought ben to him suspecte Elles . ... ... 1655 Harl . Tho it semed myghte nat been infecte Elles . Thou myghtest wene that this Palamon ... ... and especially the Ellesmere ...
... Elles . so worldly for to haue 320 Harl . His purchasyng might nought ben to him suspecte Elles . ... ... 1655 Harl . Tho it semed myghte nat been infecte Elles . Thou myghtest wene that this Palamon ... ... and especially the Ellesmere ...
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Page 110 - Would that I Had but some portion of that mastery That from the rose-hung lanes of woody Kent Through these five hundred years such songs have sent To us, who, meshed within this smoky net Of unrejoicing labour, love them yet. And thou, O Master! — Yea, my Master still, Whatever feet have scaled Parnassus' hill, Since like thy measures, clear and sweet and strong, Thames...
Page 91 - And where he should cross himself, to be armed and to make himself strong to bear the cross with Christ, he crosseth himself to drive the cross from him, and blesseth himself with a cross from the cross ; and if he leave it undone, he thinketh it no small sin, and that God is highly displeased with him, and if any misfortune chance, thinketh it is therefore, which is also idolatry and not God's word.
Page 131 - Ladies the meaning hereof, which is this : They which honour the Flower, a thing fading with every blast, are such as look after beauty and worldly pleasure ; but they that honour the Leaf, which abideth with the root notwithstanding the frosts and winter storms, are they which follow virtue and during qualities without regard of worldly respects.
Page 30 - and in wordes fewe, Ost, of his craft somwhat I wil you schewe. I say, my lord can such a subtilite, (But al his craft ye may nought wite of me, And somwhat helpe I yit to his worchynge...
Page 111 - ... stream scarce fettered bore the bream along Unto the bastioned bridge, his only chain. O Master, pardon me, if yet in vain Thou art my Master, and I fail to bring Before men's eyes the image of the thing My heart is filled with : thou whose dreamy eyes Beheld the flush to Cressid's cheeks arise, 20 When Troilus rode up the praising street, As clearly as they saw thy townsmen meet Those who in vineyards of Poictou withstood The glittering horror of the steel-topped wood.