 | William Swinton - English language - 1859 - 326 pages
...opprobrious meaning. Thus, in Chaucer : "But firste I praie you of your ourtesie That ye ne asette it not my vilanie, Though that I plainly speke in...To tellen you hir wordes and hir chere Ne though I speek hir wordes proprely." Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. ' VAGABOND,' too, is well worth exploring,... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1860 - 598 pages
...curttsio, That ye ne arctic it not my vilanie, Though that I plainly spekc in this matere, To teilen you hir wordes and hir chere ; Ne though I speke hir wordes proprely. For this ye kuowen al so wel as I , Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as ncighe as ever... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 478 pages
...hostelrie alight. And after wol I telle of our viage, And all the remenant of our pilgrimage. But firste I praie you of your curtesie, That ye ne arette it not...I, Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste rehersc, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1864 - 312 pages
...opprobrious meaning. Thus, in Chaucer : " But firste I praie you of your curtesie That ye ne asette it not my vilanie, Though that I plainly speke in this matere, To tcllen you hir wordes and hir chere Ne though I speek hir wordes proprely." Prologue to the Canterbury... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1868 - 604 pages
...telle of our viage, And all the remenant of our pilgrimage. But firste I praie you of your curtcaie, That ye ne arette it not my vilanie, Though that I plainly spcke in this matere, To teilen you hir wordes and hir chere ; Ne though I speke hir wordes proprely.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...And all the remenant of our pilgrimage. But firste I praie you of your curtesie, That ye ne arette 10 spire, In dimness from the view retire : The left presents a plac teflcn you hir wordes and hir chere ; Ne though I speke hir wordes proprely. For this ye knowen al... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1880 - 766 pages
...vileynye,8 Thogh that I pleynly speke in this mateere To telle yow hir wordes and hir cheere,4 Ne thogh I speke hir wordes proprely, For this ye knowen al so wel as I, 730 Who so shal telle a tale after a man, He moote reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - English poetry - 1879 - 742 pages
...vileynye,8 Thogh that I pleynly speke in this mateere To telle yow hir wordes and hir cheere,4 Ne thogh I speke hir wordes proprely, For this ye knowen al so wel as I, 730 Who so shal telle a tale after a man, He moote reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word, if... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1885 - 534 pages
...Canterbury Tales," thus excuses the ribaldry, which is very gross in many of his novels — But firste, I praie you of your curtesie, That ye ne arette it not...speke hir wordes proprely, For this ye knowen al so well as I, * Alluding here, as elsewhere in the preface, to Jeremy Collier and Luke Milbourne, who... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...Canterbury Tales, thus excuses the ribaldry, which is very gross in many of his novels : ' ' But firste, I praie you of your curtesie, That ye ne arette it not...speke hir wordes proprely. For this ye knowen al so well as I, Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse as neighe as ever he can : Everich... | |
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Thogh that I pleynly speke in this mateere, To telle yow hir wordes and hir cheere, Ne thogh I speke hir wordes proprely. For this ye knowen al so wel as I... 
