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The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ... 380 335 340
Knowin full well that nevir yet , As farre as evir I had wit , Agilte you in thought ne
in dede . O ! have ye men soche godelihede In fpeche , and ner a dele of crouthe
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The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ... 380 335 340
Knowin full well that nevir yet , As farre as evir I had wit , Agilte you in thought ne
in dede . O ! have ye men soche godelihede In fpeche , and ner a dele of crouthe
?
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715 720 725 As loud as bellich winde in hel , And eke therwith , the sothe to tel ,
This sowne was so full of japes As evir mowis were in apes , And that went al the
worlde aboute , That every wight gan on ' hem shoute And for to laugh as they ...
715 720 725 As loud as bellich winde in hel , And eke therwith , the sothe to tel ,
This sowne was so full of japes As evir mowis were in apes , And that went al the
worlde aboute , That every wight gan on ' hem shoute And for to laugh as they ...
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... but in humble pacience It receve , for God faith withoutin å fable A faithfull herte
evir is acceptable . Cautelis whoso ufith gladlie gloseth ; To eschewe foche it is
right high prudence ; What ye saied onis mine herte opposeth , That my writyng ...
... but in humble pacience It receve , for God faith withoutin å fable A faithfull herte
evir is acceptable . Cautelis whoso ufith gladlie gloseth ; To eschewe foche it is
right high prudence ; What ye saied onis mine herte opposeth , That my writyng ...
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... To helpe my'makyng both florishe and four , Then should I shewe in love how
that I brende , In fongis makyng thy name to commende : 140 For if I coud before
thyne excellence - Syngin in love I wouldin what I fele , And evir standin , ladie ' ...
... To helpe my'makyng both florishe and four , Then should I shewe in love how
that I brende , In fongis makyng thy name to commende : 140 For if I coud before
thyne excellence - Syngin in love I wouldin what I fele , And evir standin , ladie ' ...
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194 Where might I love evir bettir beset Then in this lilie likyng to beholde , That
lace of love , the bonde so well thou knit , That I maie se the or myne hertè colde ,
And or I passe out of my dayis olde , Tofore fyngyng evirmore uttirly , Your eyin ...
194 Where might I love evir bettir beset Then in this lilie likyng to beholde , That
lace of love , the bonde so well thou knit , That I maie se the or myne hertè colde ,
And or I passe out of my dayis olde , Tofore fyngyng evirmore uttirly , Your eyin ...
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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.
Page 191 - 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 186 - And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the vertuous Ring and Glass, And of the wondrous Hors of Brass, On which the Tartar King did ride...
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.
Page 190 - In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil...
Page 15 - Saxon original, is an abbreviation of AF, or OF; of AT ; of ON, or IN; and often only a corruption of the prepositive particle GE, or Y.
Page 175 - God then to blind the eyes of them, " for the more commodity of his people, to the intent " that through the reading of his treatises, some fruit " might redound thereof to his church, as no doubt it " did to many. As also I am partly informed of cer...