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... Arcite , Boece , Former Age , Troilus , and House of Fame , were probably composed . In 1375 Chaucer's income was augmented by receiving from the crown ( Nov. 8 ) the custody of the lands and person of Edmond Staplegate of Kent , which ...
... Arcite , Boece , Former Age , Troilus , and House of Fame , were probably composed . In 1375 Chaucer's income was augmented by receiving from the crown ( Nov. 8 ) the custody of the lands and person of Edmond Staplegate of Kent , which ...
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... Arcite ; and a prose Treatise on the Astrolabe ( 1391 ) . The Court of Love , Lydgate's Complaint of the Black Knight , The Cuckoo and the Nightingale , The Isle of Ladies or Chaucer's Dream , The Flower and the Leaf , the extant ...
... Arcite ; and a prose Treatise on the Astrolabe ( 1391 ) . The Court of Love , Lydgate's Complaint of the Black Knight , The Cuckoo and the Nightingale , The Isle of Ladies or Chaucer's Dream , The Flower and the Leaf , the extant ...
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... is also frequently silent ) ; as- ' Who springeth up for Ioye but Arcite . ' ( Knightes Tale , 1. 1013. ) ' Ne wette hir fingres in hir sauce depe . ' ( Prol . 1. 129. ) : - c . Final -e is a remnant of xlvi INTRODUCTION .
... is also frequently silent ) ; as- ' Who springeth up for Ioye but Arcite . ' ( Knightes Tale , 1. 1013. ) ' Ne wette hir fingres in hir sauce depe . ' ( Prol . 1. 129. ) : - c . Final -e is a remnant of xlvi INTRODUCTION .
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... Arcite ' and ' The Parlement of Foules ' are so important for the right understanding of the Knightes Tale that the substance of them is here repeated . It appears , from internal evidence , that ' Anelida and Arcite was written before ...
... Arcite ' and ' The Parlement of Foules ' are so important for the right understanding of the Knightes Tale that the substance of them is here repeated . It appears , from internal evidence , that ' Anelida and Arcite was written before ...
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... Arcite ' in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women as if it were an independent work . We must suppose that Chaucer originally translated the Teseide of Boccaccio rather closely , substituting a seven - line stanza for the ottava rima ...
... Arcite ' in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women as if it were an independent work . We must suppose that Chaucer originally translated the Teseide of Boccaccio rather closely , substituting a seven - line stanza for the ottava rima ...
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Page 12 - Ther was also, ful riche of excellence. Discreet he was and of greet reverence — He semed swich, his wordes weren so wise.
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Page 126 - Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees, And necligent, and truste on flaterye. But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralitee ~, good men. 620 For seint Paul seith, that al that writen is, (4631) To our doctryne it is y-write, y-wis. Taketh the fruyt, and lat the chaf be stille.
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Page 21 - Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace, That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace The wisdom of an heep of lerned men?
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