The Corpus Ms (Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Volumes 1-7Chaucer society, 1879 - 154 pages |
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... coupe he sitte on an hors and faire ride 76 80 84 88 92 He coupe songes make and wel endite Iuste and eek daunce and wel purteray and write 96 So hote he loued þat by nighter tale He sleep nomore pan dop a nightyngale Courteys he was ...
... coupe he sitte on an hors and faire ride 76 80 84 88 92 He coupe songes make and wel endite Iuste and eek daunce and wel purteray and write 96 So hote he loued þat by nighter tale He sleep nomore pan dop a nightyngale Courteys he was ...
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... coupe he dresse his takel 3imanly His arwes drouped nought wip fetheres lowe And in his hond he bar a mighty bowe A not - hed hadde he wip a broun visage Of woode - craft ' wel coupe he al þe vsage Vpon his arm he bar a gay bracer And ...
... coupe he dresse his takel 3imanly His arwes drouped nought wip fetheres lowe And in his hond he bar a mighty bowe A not - hed hadde he wip a broun visage Of woode - craft ' wel coupe he al þe vsage Vpon his arm he bar a gay bracer And ...
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... coupe he synge and playen on a rote 236 Of zeddynges he bar witterly pe pris His nekke whit / was as pe flour - delys Ther - to he was strong as a Champioun He knew he tauernes wel in euery toun 240 And euerich hostiller and tapstere ...
... coupe he synge and playen on a rote 236 Of zeddynges he bar witterly pe pris His nekke whit / was as pe flour - delys Ther - to he was strong as a Champioun He knew he tauernes wel in euery toun 240 And euerich hostiller and tapstere ...
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... coupe right as it were a whelpe / In louedayes per coupe he moche helpe / ffor þer he was not lich a cloysterer With a thred - bare cope as a pore scoler But he was lik ' a maister or a pope Of double worstede was his semy - cope / That ...
... coupe right as it were a whelpe / In louedayes per coupe he moche helpe / ffor þer he was not lich a cloysterer With a thred - bare cope as a pore scoler But he was lik ' a maister or a pope Of double worstede was his semy - cope / That ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Frederick James Furnivall. 280 Wel coupe he in eschaunge scheldes selle / This worpy man ful wel his witte bisette Ther wiste no wight ' that he was in dette So statly was he of his gouernance With his bargaynes and his ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Frederick James Furnivall. 280 Wel coupe he in eschaunge scheldes selle / This worpy man ful wel his witte bisette Ther wiste no wight ' that he was in dette So statly was he of his gouernance With his bargaynes and his ...
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Page 370 - Thou art a squier, and he is a knyght. But God forbede, for his blisful myght, But if a clerk koude doon a gentil dede As wel as any of yow, it is no drede!
Page 89 - And swore by armes, and by blood, and bones, I can a noble tale for the nones, With which I wol now quite the knightes tale.
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