 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
 | Jacek Fisiak, Akio Oizumi - Foreign Language Study - 1998 - 484 pages
..._ « fS m m »n m r**t m co m „. A new rhyme concordance to Chaucer's poetical works Akio Oizumi I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn That Chaucer, thogh he kan but lewedly On metres and no rymyng craftily, Hath seyd hem in swich Englissh as he kan Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man.... | |
 | Anita Obermeier - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 324 pages
...Alceste and the Man of Law, do his work for him. while he keeps himself modestly in the background: "I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn That Chaucer,...kan Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man; And if he have noght seyd hem. leve brother, In o book, he hath seyd them in another, For he hath toold of loveris... | |
 | Stephanie Trigg - Authors and readers - 2002 - 312 pages
...historical association between the narratives and the narrators of the past: But nathelees, certayn, 1 kan right now no thrifty tale seyn That Chaucer, thogh...kan but lewedly On metres and on rymyng craftily, Hathe seyd hem in swich Englissh as he kan Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man; And if he have noght... | |
 | Emily Steiner, Candace Barrington - History - 2002 - 276 pages
...contemporary poetry distinguished by its self-deprecating jocularity and squeamish moral delicacy: "I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn That Chaucer,...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 of loveris... | |
 | Peter Ackroyd - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 210 pages
...The Man of Law, in the course of the journey to Canterbury, has cause to mention Chaucer's poetry: I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn That Chaucer,...craftily, Hath seyd hem in swich Englissh as he kan . . . The poet himself is addressed by Herry Bailey in less than flattering terms: ull page from The... | |
 | Seth Lerer - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 446 pages
...denial of the prurient content of an inherited tradition, the disparagement of the resources of English: I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn That Chaucer,...Englissh as he kan Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man. (lines 46-50) English, that is, threatens to become unknowable, not because of its transcendence, but... | |
 | Benjamin Willem Lindeboom - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 487 pages
...Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, (New York: Cornell UP, 1979): 221-45. . . . But nathelees, certeyn, I kan right now no thrifty tale seyn That Chaucer,...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 of loveris... | |
 | 224 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... | |
 | 328 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... | |
 | Ezra Pound - Books and reading - 2001 - 228 pages
...elevado. 88 DOCUMENTO CHAUCER 1340-1400 But Chaucer though he kan but lewedly i 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 him, leve 2 brother, In os book, he hath seyd him in another For he hath toold of loveris... | |
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