The British Poets: Including Translations ...

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C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry

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Page 143 - That was right goodly and pleasuant to sight, I sie where there came singing lustily A world of ladies...
Page 150 - As harpes, pipes, lutes, and sautry A He in greene; and on their heades bare Of divers floures made full craftely All in a sute goodly chapelets they ware; And so dauncing into the mede they fare. In mid the which they found a tuft that was All oversprad with floures in compas.
Page 144 - But all they yede in manner of compace, But one there yede in mid the company, Sole by...
Page 240 - Ladie ! th' honor of your daies eso And glorie of the world, your high thoughts scorne. 1 Hent, taken away. * L'Enooy was a sort of postscript sent with poetical compositions, and serving either to recommend them to the attention of some particular person, or to enforce what we call the moral of them. — TYRWHITT. Vouchsafe this moniment of his last praise With some few silver dropping teares t...
Page 143 - Where she sat in a fresh grene laurer tree, On the further side even right by me, That gave so passing a delicious smell, According to the eglentere full well. Whereof I had so inly great pleasure, That, as me thought, I surely ravished was Into Paradise, where my desire Was for to be...
Page 148 - And every knight turned his horses hede • To his fellow, and lightly laid a spere In the rest ; and so justes began On every part about here and there ; Some brake his spere, some drew down hors and...
Page 150 - With great reverence, and that full humbly; And at the last there began anone A lady for to sing right womanly A bargaret in praising the daisie ; For as me thought among her notes swete, She said
Page 155 - It is witnesse of their deeds mightily. " Eke there be knightes old of the garter, That in hir time did right worthily, And the honour they did to the laurer, Is for by it they have their laud wholly...
Page 150 - Hond in bond a knight and a lady ; The ladies all in surcotes, that richely Purfiled were with many a rich stone, And every knight of green ware mantles on, Embrouded well so as the surcotes were, And everich had a chapelet on her hed...
Page 24 - You recollect, perhaps, the dispute that follows between the cuckoo and the nightingale, and the promise which the sweet singer makes to Chaucer for rescuing her. " And then came the Nightingale to me And said Friend, forsooth I thanke thee That thou hast liked me to rescue, And one avow to Love make I now That all this May, I will thy singer be. I thanked her, and was right well apaied, Yea, quoth she, and be not thou dismaied, Tho...

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