Geoffrey Chaucer's Influence on English Literature |
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Page 27 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek ; Or call up him that left half -told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous Horse of Brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 14 - FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small and white and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green; Think, that below bridge the green lapping waves Smite some few keels that bear Levantine staves, Cut from the...
Page 23 - How may these rimes, so rude as doth appeare, Hope to endure, sith workes of heavenly wits Are quite devourd, and brought to nought by little bits...
Page 28 - First wol I telle yow of Cambyuskan, That in his tyme many a citee wan; And after wol I speke of Algarsif, How that he wan Theodora to his wif, For whom ful ofte in greet peril he was...
Page 58 - Chaucer's Ghoast : Or, A Piece of Antiquity containing twelve pleasant Fables of Ovid penn'd after the ancient manner of writing in England.
Page 86 - Together with his remedy of love. Translated into English verse by several eminent hands. To which are added, the court of love, a tale from Chaucer. And the history of love.
Page 78 - is worth a bene; For wedlok is so esy and so clene, That in this world it is a paradys.
Page 109 - Is in this large world y-sprad! — quod she: — For noght only thy laude precious Parfourned is by men of dignitee, But by the mouth of children thy bountee Parfourned is, for on the brest soukinge Som tyme shewen they thyn heryinge.
Page 23 - Then pardon, O most sacred happie spirit ! That I thy labours lost may thus revive, And steale from thee the meede of thy due merit, That none durst ever whilest thou wast alive, And being dead in vaine yet many strive : Ne dare I like ; but, through infusion sweete Of thine owne spirit which doth in me survive, I follow here the footing of thy feete, That with thy meaning so I may the rather meete.
Page 78 - A worthy knyght that born was of Pavye, In which he lyved in greet prosperitee ; And sixty yeer a wyflees man was hee, And folwed ay his bodily delyt On wommen ther as was his appetyt...