 Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly On metres and on rymyng craftily, Hath seyd hem in swich Englissh as he kan, Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man. And if he have noght seyd hem, leve brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another. For he hath toold...  Chaucer: A Bibliographical Manual - Page 56by Eleanor Prescott Hammond - 1908 - 579 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chaucer Society (London, England) - 1901 - 382 pages
...can but lewedly On meetris / and on rymyng craftily 48 bath seid hem / in swich englissh as he can Of olde tyme / as knoweth many a man And if he haue noujt seid hem / leue brother In a boke / he hath seid hem / in a-nother 52 ffor he hath told of louyers... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1901 - 816 pages
...can but lewedly On meetris / and on rymyng craftily 48 hath seid hem / in swich euglissh as he can Of olde tyme / as knoweth many a man And if he haue noujt seid he?n / leue brother In a boko / ho hath seid hem / in a-nother 52 ffor he hath told of louyers... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1904 - 842 pages
...but natheless certeyn I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn, But Chaucer, thogh he kan but leweclly, it so bifalle or happe that a man of gretter myght...strengthe than thou art do thee grevaunce, studie and bisy 50 And if he have noght seyd hem, leve brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another. For he hath... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1905 - 344 pages
...by right ; Thus wol oure text, but nathelees certeyn, 45 I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn, But Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly, On metres and on...Englissh as he kan, Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man. 50 And if he have noght seyd hem, leve brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another. For he hath... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1907 - 536 pages
...by right ; Thus wole oure text, but nathelees certeyn, 45 I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn, But Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly, On metres and on...Englissh as he kan, Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man. 50 And if he have noght seyd hem, leve brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another. For he hath... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1908 - 340 pages
...kan right now no thrifty tale seyn, But Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly, On metres and on ryming craftily, Hath seyd hem, in swich Englissh as he kan, Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man. And if he have noght seyd hem, leve brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another. For he hath told of loveres... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1915 - 508 pages
...wight, He sholde hym-seluen vsen it by right. fB 45-76] Thus wol[e] oure text; but nathelees 65 certeyn, I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn That Chaucer,...swich englissh as he kan Of olde tyme, as knoweth many~a man. 70 And if he haue noght seyd hem, leue brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer, Max Kaluza - English language - 1919 - 260 pages
...by right. Thus wole oure text, but nathelees, certeyn, 4j I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn But Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly On metres and on...Englissh as he kan Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man. -0 And if he haue noght seyd hem, leue brother, In o book, he hath seyd hem in another, For he hath... | |
 | Kenneth Sisam - English literature - 1921 - 538 pages
...presumably the early work to which the Man of Law refers : / kan right now no thrifty tale seyn But Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly On metres and on...craftily, Hath seyd hem, in swich Englissh as he kan, Of aide tyme, as knoweth many a man ; And if he have noght seyd hem, leve brother, In o book, he hath... | |
 | Aage Brusendorff - Literary Criticism - 1925 - 546 pages
...substituted ne-that for ne-but, as in B 46—9: I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn That Chaucer — though he kan but lewedly On metres and on rymyng craftily — Hath seyd hem in swich englissh as he kan. *) It appears probable, then, that both in D 1159 and in 881 Chaucer employed the phrase ne-but in... | |
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