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Page xxi
... Theseus with the Amazons , their submission to him , and his marriage with Hippolyta . Bk . ii . Theseus , having spent two years in Scythia , is reproached by Perithous in a vision , and immediately returns to Athens with Hippolyta and ...
... Theseus with the Amazons , their submission to him , and his marriage with Hippolyta . Bk . ii . Theseus , having spent two years in Scythia , is reproached by Perithous in a vision , and immediately returns to Athens with Hippolyta and ...
Page xxii
... Theseus . When he finds who they are , and the cause of their difference , he forgives them , and proposes the method of deciding their claim to Emilia by a combat of a hundred on each side , to which they gladly agree . Bk . vi ...
... Theseus . When he finds who they are , and the cause of their difference , he forgives them , and proposes the method of deciding their claim to Emilia by a combat of a hundred on each side , to which they gladly agree . Bk . vi ...
Page xxiii
... Theseus , and desires that Palemone may inherit all his pos- sessions and also Emilia . He then takes leave of Palemone and Emilia , to whom he repeats the same request . Their lamen- tations . Arcita orders a sacrifice to Mercury ...
... Theseus , and desires that Palemone may inherit all his pos- sessions and also Emilia . He then takes leave of Palemone and Emilia , to whom he repeats the same request . Their lamen- tations . Arcita orders a sacrifice to Mercury ...
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... Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour , And in his tyme swich a conquerour , That gretter was ther non under the sonne . Ful many a riche contré hadde he wonne ; That with his wisdam and his chivalrie He conquered al the regne ...
... Theseus ; Of Athenes he was lord and governour , And in his tyme swich a conquerour , That gretter was ther non under the sonne . Ful many a riche contré hadde he wonne ; That with his wisdam and his chivalrie He conquered al the regne ...
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... Theseus , ' have ye so gret envye Of myn honour , that thus compleyne and crie ? Or who hath yow misboden , or offendid ? And telleth me if it may ben amendid ; And why that ye ben clad thus al in blak ? ' 35 40 45 50 The oldest lady of ...
... Theseus , ' have ye so gret envye Of myn honour , that thus compleyne and crie ? Or who hath yow misboden , or offendid ? And telleth me if it may ben amendid ; And why that ye ben clad thus al in blak ? ' 35 40 45 50 The oldest lady of ...
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Page 6 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Page 4 - The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By-cause that it was old and som-del streit, This ilke monk leet olde thinges pace, And held after the newe world the space. He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been nat holy men...
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Page 25 - And telle he moste his tale as was resoun, By forward and by co'mposicioun, As ye han herd ; what...
Page 156 - The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God ; but the woman is the glory of the man.
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Page xlviii - But natheles, whyl I have tyme and space, Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed...
Page 21 - For this ye knowen al so wel as I, Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if it be in his charge, Al speke he never so rudeliche and large, Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe, Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes newe.
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