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Lo ! right as she hath doen now she Woll doen eftfonis hardily , Thus faie the
peple privily ; But that is doen n'is not to done : But all her complaint ne her mone
Certain availed her not a stre . And when she wist sothely that he Was forthe into
his ...
Lo ! right as she hath doen now she Woll doen eftfonis hardily , Thus faie the
peple privily ; But that is doen n'is not to done : But all her complaint ne her mone
Certain availed her not a stre . And when she wist sothely that he Was forthe into
his ...
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415 420 if Ariadne ne had be ; And for she had of hym pite She made hym fro the
deth escape , And he made her a full false jape ; For aftir this within a while He
left her slepyng in an ile , Desert alone right in the se , And Itale awaie and let her
...
415 420 if Ariadne ne had be ; And for she had of hym pite She made hym fro the
deth escape , And he made her a full false jape ; For aftir this within a while He
left her slepyng in an ile , Desert alone right in the se , And Itale awaie and let her
...
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Of this lady Lampedo , with her sistir Masifit , That al the land of Feminie , Europe
, and Epheson , Be yeldin and applied lowly to her subjeccion ; Many an high
toure she raisid , and ybilt touris long , Perpetuelly to lastin , with hugè wallis
strong ...
Of this lady Lampedo , with her sistir Masifit , That al the land of Feminie , Europe
, and Epheson , Be yeldin and applied lowly to her subjeccion ; Many an high
toure she raisid , and ybilt touris long , Perpetuelly to lastin , with hugè wallis
strong ...
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28 There where she was present in this same place , I having in herte grete
adversite , Except onely the fortune and gode grace Of her whose I am , the
whiche releved me , And my grete dures unlasid hath she , And brought me out of
the ...
28 There where she was present in this same place , I having in herte grete
adversite , Except onely the fortune and gode grace Of her whose I am , the
whiche releved me , And my grete dures unlasid hath she , And brought me out of
the ...
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7 14 So faire is she , but nothyng angelike , Her beautie is unto none othir like .
For hardily and she were made of braffe , Her face and all , she hath enough
fairnesse ; Her eyen ben holow'and grene as any grasse , And ravenish yelowe
is her ...
7 14 So faire is she , but nothyng angelike , Her beautie is unto none othir like .
For hardily and she were made of braffe , Her face and all , she hath enough
fairnesse ; Her eyen ben holow'and grene as any grasse , And ravenish yelowe
is her ...
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Page 192 - The matter and manner of their tales and of their telling are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Page 191 - Tis true, I cannot go so far as he who published the last edition of him; for he would make us believe the fault is in our ears, and that there were really ten syllables in a verse where we find but nine...
Page 192 - Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only.
Page 191 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales" the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age.
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Page 186 - The Truth is, it has been hitherto a little too carelessly handled, and, I think, has had less labor spent about its 1 5 polishing then it deserves. Till the time of King Henry the Eighth, there was scarce any man regarded it but Chaucer, and nothing was written in it which one would be willing to read twice but some of his Poetry, But then it began to raise it self a little, and to sound tolerably well.
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| Title | Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ... Volumes 13-14 of Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Illustrated by | Thomas Stothard, John Hamilton Mortimer |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1782 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Oct 2006 |
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