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... speke thyr poyfy mater in Frenche , of whyche speche the Frenche men have as good a fantasye as we have in hearing " of French mennes Englythe . " And he afterwards concludes with his ufual good fente ; " Let then clerkes endyten in La ...
... speke thyr poyfy mater in Frenche , of whyche speche the Frenche men have as good a fantasye as we have in hearing " of French mennes Englythe . " And he afterwards concludes with his ufual good fente ; " Let then clerkes endyten in La ...
Page ccxxvi
... Speke and Shepey empaled , and at the end of the Tales , which are written in another hand , is this note , which feems to be added by the writer of the latter part of it , Veftré magnificè et generofiffime doininacionis bumilimûs ...
... Speke and Shepey empaled , and at the end of the Tales , which are written in another hand , is this note , which feems to be added by the writer of the latter part of it , Veftré magnificè et generofiffime doininacionis bumilimûs ...
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... speke as nouthe ; . 549. Moist and newe ] Moift ishere used in a peculiar sense , as derived from mußteus ; for according to Nonius , 2 , 518 , “ Mu- " itum non folum vinum , verum etiam novellum quiquid eft , " recte dicitur . " So in ...
... speke as nouthe ; . 549. Moist and newe ] Moift ishere used in a peculiar sense , as derived from mußteus ; for according to Nonius , 2 , 518 , “ Mu- " itum non folum vinum , verum etiam novellum quiquid eft , " recte dicitur . " So in ...
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... speke and crie as he were wood ; And whan that he wel dronken had the win , Than wold he fpeken no word but Latin : A fewe termes coude he , two or three , That he had lerned out of fom decree ; No wonder is , he heard it all the day ...
... speke and crie as he were wood ; And whan that he wel dronken had the win , Than wold he fpeken no word but Latin : A fewe termes coude he , two or three , That he had lerned out of fom decree ; No wonder is , he heard it all the day ...
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... speke in this matere , To tellen you hir wordes and hir chere , Ne though I fpeke hir wordes proprely ; For this ye knowen al fo wel as I , 725 730 Who fo fhall telle a Tale after a man He mofte reherfe as neighe as ever he can Everich ...
... speke in this matere , To tellen you hir wordes and hir chere , Ne though I fpeke hir wordes proprely ; For this ye knowen al fo wel as I , 725 730 Who fo fhall telle a Tale after a man He mofte reherfe as neighe as ever he can Everich ...
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Page xxv - We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace...
Page ccxxxvi - A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe y-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But loked holwe, and ther-to soberly.
Page ccxix - A KNIGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To ryden out, he loved chivalrye, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.
Page 3 - The yelding of his seed, and of his grain. His lordes shepe, his nete, and his deirie, His swine, his hors, his store, and his pultrie, Were holly in this reves governing, And by his covenant yave he rekening, Sin that his lord was twenty yere of age; Ther coude no man bring him in arerage. Ther n'as baillif, ne herde, ne other hine, That he ne knew his sleight and his covine: They were adradde of him, as of the deth. His wonning was ful fayre upon an heth, With grene trees yshadewed was his place.
Page cclii - The MILLER was a stout carl for the nones, Ful bigge he was of braun, and eke of bones; That proved wel, for over all ther he came, At wrastling he wold bere away the ram. He was short shuldered brode, a thikke gnarre, Ther n'as no dore, that he n'olde heve of barre, Or breke it at a renning with his hede.
Page 28 - For which thou art ybounden as a knight To helpen me, if it lie in thy might, Or elles art thou false I dare well say'n.
Page 54 - And they him sware his axing fayr and wel, And him of lordship and of mercie praid, And he hem granted grace, and thus he said : To speke of real linage and richesse, Though that she were a quene or a...
Page 5 - Than wolde he speke, and crie as he were wood. And whan that he wel dronken had the win, Than wold he speken no word but Latin.
Page ccxxxvi - Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 42 - Theseus, his squyer principal, 640 is risen, and loketh on the myrie day. And, for to doon his observaunce to May, Remembring on the poynt of his desyr, He on a courser...