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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... four long weary days over that short distance , " & c . & c . - Chambers , Book of Days , ii . 227 . " Yet doth not this so fruitefull soyle [ of Middlesex ] yeeld comfort to the wayfairing man in the wintertime , by reason of the ...
... four long weary days over that short distance , " & c . & c . - Chambers , Book of Days , ii . 227 . " Yet doth not this so fruitefull soyle [ of Middlesex ] yeeld comfort to the wayfairing man in the wintertime , by reason of the ...
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... four days , as his authorities for it are the facts that Isabella , queen of Edward II , was four days on the road ( Hist . Mem . p . 237 , note 1 , referring to Archĉologia , xxxvi . ( meaning xxxv . ) 461 ) , and that " On the last ...
... four days , as his authorities for it are the facts that Isabella , queen of Edward II , was four days on the road ( Hist . Mem . p . 237 , note 1 , referring to Archĉologia , xxxvi . ( meaning xxxv . ) 461 ) , and that " On the last ...
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... four days on their journey . We shall now inquire whether these assumptions suit the statements and allusions of the Tales , whether our voyagers " passed the night at Dart- ford , " Rochester , and Ospringe , like King John of France ...
... four days on their journey . We shall now inquire whether these assumptions suit the statements and allusions of the Tales , whether our voyagers " passed the night at Dart- ford , " Rochester , and Ospringe , like King John of France ...
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... four lines for the 136 of most MSS , we still have the almost at toune ' : - 6 he ne had nat ellis for his sermoun To parten amonge his breŝeren whan he come home And pus is ŝis tale ydoun For we were almost at the toun . ( Petworth MS ...
... four lines for the 136 of most MSS , we still have the almost at toune ' : - 6 he ne had nat ellis for his sermoun To parten amonge his breŝeren whan he come home And pus is ŝis tale ydoun For we were almost at the toun . ( Petworth MS ...
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... four ? But another question presented itself — Did the modern village exist in Chaucer's days ? To satisfy myself on this head I turned to Hasted's ' Kent , ' 8vo , vol . 7 , p . 4 , where I found the following : - ' A little further on ...
... four ? But another question presented itself — Did the modern village exist in Chaucer's days ? To satisfy myself on this head I turned to Hasted's ' Kent , ' 8vo , vol . 7 , p . 4 , where I found the following : - ' A little further on ...
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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.
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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.