The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 1Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... entent . And so befell , that ones on a day This sompnour , waiting ever on his pray , Rode forth to sompne a widewe an olde ribibe , Feining a cause , for he wold han a bribe . And happed that he saw beforn him ride A gay yeman under a ...
... entent . And so befell , that ones on a day This sompnour , waiting ever on his pray , Rode forth to sompne a widewe an olde ribibe , Feining a cause , for he wold han a bribe . And happed that he saw beforn him ride A gay yeman under a ...
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... entent To riden , for to reisen up a rent , That longeth to my lordes duetee . " " A , art thou than a baillif ? " " Ye , " quod he . ( He dorste not for veray filth and shame Say that he was a sompnour , for the name . ) " De par dieux ...
... entent To riden , for to reisen up a rent , That longeth to my lordes duetee . " " A , art thou than a baillif ? " " Ye , " quod he . ( He dorste not for veray filth and shame Say that he was a sompnour , for the name . ) " De par dieux ...
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... entent , " Quod this sompnour , " for to repenten me For any thing that I have had of thee ; I wold I had thy smok and every cloth . " " Now brother , " quod the devil , " be not wroth ; Thy body and this panne ben min by right . Thou ...
... entent , " Quod this sompnour , " for to repenten me For any thing that I have had of thee ; I wold I had thy smok and every cloth . " " Now brother , " quod the devil , " be not wroth ; Thy body and this panne ben min by right . Thou ...
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... entent , That never yet refuseden your hest , And we wol , lord , if that ye wol assent , Chese you a wife in short time at the mest , Borne of the gentillest and of the best Of all this lond , so that it oughte seme Honour to God and ...
... entent , That never yet refuseden your hest , And we wol , lord , if that ye wol assent , Chese you a wife in short time at the mest , Borne of the gentillest and of the best Of all this lond , so that it oughte seme Honour to God and ...
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... entent , And trust upon your wit , and have don ay : Wherfore of my free will I wol assent To wedden me , as sone as ever I may . But ther as ye han profred me to - day To chesen me a wif , I you relese That chois , and pray you of that ...
... entent , And trust upon your wit , and have don ay : Wherfore of my free will I wol assent To wedden me , as sone as ever I may . But ther as ye han profred me to - day To chesen me a wif , I you relese That chois , and pray you of that ...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 32 Ezekiel Sanford,Robert Walsh, Jr. No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 32 - A good man ther was of religioun, That was a poure PERSONE of a toun: But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, . That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche.
Page 123 - Allas! the shorte throte, the tendre mouth, Maketh that est and west and north and south, In erthe, in eir, in water, men to-swinke To gete a glotoun deyntee mete and drinke! Of this matere, O Paul, wel canstow trete: " Mete un-to wombe, and wombe eek un-to mete, Shal God destroyen bothe,
Page 26 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 18 - In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste.
Page 20 - Cristofre on his brest of silver shene. An home he bare, the baudrik was of grene. A forster was he sothely as I gesse.
Page 32 - In sikenesse and in mischief to visite The ferrest in his parish, moche and lite, Upon his fete, and in his hand a staf.
Page 39 - He had a crois of laton ful of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones. But with these relikes, whanne that he fond A poure persone dwelling up on- lond, Upon a day he gat him more moneie Than that the persone gat in monethes tweie. And thus with fained flattering and japes, He made the persone, and the peple, his apes.
Page 33 - But in his teching discrete and benigne. To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse : But it were any persone obstinat, What so he were of highe, or low estat, Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones.
Page 22 - He yave not of the text a pulled hen, That saith, that hunters ben not holy men...
Page 40 - And of manhod him lakkede right naught. Eek therto he was right a mery man, And after soper pleyen he bigan, And spak of mirthe amonges othere thinges, Whan that we hadde maad our rekeninges; 760 And seyde thus...