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... written about 1367 , after his rejection by his lady - love , tells us that for many years he dared not speak his feelings towards her , and when at last he did so , he found Pity dead in her heart ; but still he pleads pathetically ...
... written about 1367 , after his rejection by his lady - love , tells us that for many years he dared not speak his feelings towards her , and when at last he did so , he found Pity dead in her heart ; but still he pleads pathetically ...
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... written at different times of his life , from 1373 to • Chaucer received for this service 10 % . on Feb. 17 , and 207. on April 11 . P Chaucer received 267. 135. 4d . on April 30 , as part payment for this service , and in 1381 ( March ) ...
... written at different times of his life , from 1373 to • Chaucer received for this service 10 % . on Feb. 17 , and 207. on April 11 . P Chaucer received 267. 135. 4d . on April 30 , as part payment for this service , and in 1381 ( March ) ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer Richard Morris. 1400 , and prefaced by a Prologue , written on or about a journey in 1388. To this , the third period of his poetical life , also belong The Legende of Good Women ( written about 1385 ) , and Truth ...
Geoffrey Chaucer Richard Morris. 1400 , and prefaced by a Prologue , written on or about a journey in 1388. To this , the third period of his poetical life , also belong The Legende of Good Women ( written about 1385 ) , and Truth ...
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... written nearly half a century later ) ; The Assembly of Fowls , or the Parliament of Birds ( ? 1382 ) ; Chaucer's A B C , translated out of Guillaume de Guilevile's ' Pelerinage de l'Homme , ' written about 1330 ; The Book of the ...
... written nearly half a century later ) ; The Assembly of Fowls , or the Parliament of Birds ( ? 1382 ) ; Chaucer's A B C , translated out of Guillaume de Guilevile's ' Pelerinage de l'Homme , ' written about 1330 ; The Book of the ...
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... written , for from Ælfric to Chaucer we have an almost unbroken series of vernacular literature by which we are able to determine with tolerable exactness the various changes in grammar and vocabulary which occurred during this interval ...
... written , for from Ælfric to Chaucer we have an almost unbroken series of vernacular literature by which we are able to determine with tolerable exactness the various changes in grammar and vocabulary which occurred during this interval ...
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Page 2 - In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste.
Page 11 - This worthy man ful wel his wit bisette; Ther wiste no wight that he was in dette, 280 So estatly was he of his governaunce, With his bargaynes, and with his chevisaunce.
Page 12 - Ther was also, ful riche of excellence. Discreet he was and of greet reverence — He semed swich, his wordes weren so wise.
Page 8 - A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. His heed was balled, that shoon as any glas, And eek his face, as he had been anoint.
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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.
Page 18 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte ; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte...
Page 2 - Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree, 40 And eek in what array that they were inne; And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.
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?
Page 12 - And every statut coude he pleyn by rote. He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote Girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale; Of his array telle I no lenger tale.