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Page 121 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Page 72 - Twas thus, by the cave of the mountain afar, While his harp rung symphonious, a hermit began ; No more with himself or with nature at war, He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
Page 123 - Now Christ thee save, thou reverend friar, I pray thee tell to me, If ever at yon holy shrine My true love thou didst see. And how should I know your true love, From many another one ? O by his cockle hat, and staff, And by his sandal shoone.
Page 95 - In traveill to and froe : a little wyde There was an holy chappell edifyde, Wherein the Hermite dewly wont to say His. holy thinges each morne and eventyde; Thereby a christall streame did gently play, Which from a sacred fountaine welled forth alway.
Page 74 - He lingered, poring on memorials Of the world's youth ; through the long .burning day Gazed on those speechless shapes ; nor, when the moon Filled the mysterious halls with floating shades, Suspended...
Page 207 - Tabard as I lay Redy to wenden on my pilgrimage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage...
Page 95 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Downe in a dale, hard by a forests side, Far from resort of people, that did pas In...
Page 222 - As ye came from the holy land Of blessed Walsingham, O met you not with my true love As by the way ye came ? " " How should I know your true love, 5 That have met many a one, As I came from the holy land, That have both come, and gone...
Page 304 - May our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon thee, and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy passion. And I, by his authority, that of his blessed apostles, Peter and Paul, and of the most holy pope, granted and committed to me in these parts, do absolve thee, first from all ecclesiastical censures, in whatever manner they have been incurred ; then from all thy sins, transgressions, and...
Page 222 - GENTLE heardsman, tell to me, Of curtesy I thee pray, Unto the towne of Walsingham Which is the right and ready way. " Unto the towne of Walsingham The way is hard for to be gon ; And verry crooked are those pathes For you to find out all alone.