The works of Geoffrey ChaucerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1904 - 771 pàgines |
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... fortune was due to the favour of his patron John of Gaunt , and now the latter had left England in the spring of 1386 to prosecute his claims to the throne of Castile . The Parliament in which Chaucer had sat had demanded a change in ...
... fortune was due to the favour of his patron John of Gaunt , and now the latter had left England in the spring of 1386 to prosecute his claims to the throne of Castile . The Parliament in which Chaucer had sat had demanded a change in ...
Pàgina 1
... Fortune , is not a translation or imitation of either . The incident of ' Seys ' with which it opens is taken from the Metamorphoses of Ovid , in which the story of Alcione's appearance to his faithful wife Ceyx is told , and Machault ...
... Fortune , is not a translation or imitation of either . The incident of ' Seys ' with which it opens is taken from the Metamorphoses of Ovid , in which the story of Alcione's appearance to his faithful wife Ceyx is told , and Machault ...
Pàgina 11
... FORTUNE Balades de visage sans peinture , as this poem is called in the MSS . , are a series of ballades , or rather a triple ballade , with a single envoy of seven , and possibly only six lines , in praise of the friend of the ...
... FORTUNE Balades de visage sans peinture , as this poem is called in the MSS . , are a series of ballades , or rather a triple ballade , with a single envoy of seven , and possibly only six lines , in praise of the friend of the ...
Pàgina 14
... fortune hath yeven Victorie , and as a conqueror to lyven , Nat greveth us youre glorie and youre honour , But we biseken mercy and socóur . Have mercy on oure wo and oure distresse : Som drope of pitee , thurgh thy gentillesse , Upon ...
... fortune hath yeven Victorie , and as a conqueror to lyven , Nat greveth us youre glorie and youre honour , But we biseken mercy and socóur . Have mercy on oure wo and oure distresse : Som drope of pitee , thurgh thy gentillesse , Upon ...
Pàgina 16
... Fortune hath yeven us this adversitee . Som wikke aspect or disposicioun Of Saturne , by sum constellacioun , Hath yeven us this , although we hadde it sworn ; 1090 So stood the hevene whan that we were born ; playn . ' We moste endure ...
... Fortune hath yeven us this adversitee . Som wikke aspect or disposicioun Of Saturne , by sum constellacioun , Hath yeven us this , although we hadde it sworn ; 1090 So stood the hevene whan that we were born ; playn . ' We moste endure ...
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agayn Allas alwey anon anoon awey certes certeyn Chaucer comen cometh conseil Criseyde Crist dede deeth deth dide doon doun drede dryve entente forto freendes greet gret grete hath heere herd herte hevene hire hous kepe koude kyng lady leve litel lord lyve maken manere mede moore myghte myn herte never noght noon nyght ofte oldė oonly oother Pandarus peple peyne preye quod quod sche rede resoun ryght saugh sche seide Seint seith sette seyde seye seyn shal shalt sholde shul sith sone sonne sorwe soth speke swich synne tale thanne thee ther therfore Theseus thilke thing thise thou thought thow thurgh thyn thyng trewe Troilus trouthe trowe tyme unto verray werkes whan whanne wight withouten wolde wole womman woot yeve
Passatges populars
Pàgina 11 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Pàgina 120 - Tragedie is to seyn, a certeyn storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of hym that stood in greet prosperitee And is yfallen out of heigh degree Into myserie, and endeth wrecchedly, And they ben versified communely Of six feet, which men clepen exametron.
Pàgina 141 - Lo, swich it is for to be recchelees, And necligent, and truste on flaterye. But ye that holden this tale a folye, As of a fox, or of a cok and hen, Taketh the moralitee, good men.
Pàgina 11 - And everich hostiler and tappestere Bet than a lazar or a beggestere ; For un-to swich a worthy man as he Acorded nat, as by his facultee, To have with seke lazars aqueyntaunce. It is nat honest, it may nat avaunce For to delen with no swich poraille, But al with riche and sellers of vitaille.
Pàgina 170 - allas! nay, nay! It wol nat been amended nevere mo. Thou art so loothly, and so oold also, And therto comen of so lough a kynde, That litel wonder is thogh I walwe and wynde. So wolde God myn herte wolde breste!" "Is this," quod she, "the cause of youre unreste?" "Ye, certeinly,
Pàgina 11 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte ; Out of the gospel he tho wordes caughte ; And this figure he added eek ther-to, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do...
Pàgina 11 - Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Pàgina 152 - This olde man gan loke in his visage, And seyde thus, "for I ne can nat finde A man, though that I walked in-to Inde, Neither in citee nor in no village, That wolde chaunge his youthe for myn age; And therfore moot I han myn age stille, As longe time as it is goddes wille.
Pàgina 11 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.
Pàgina 11 - Everich, for the wisdom that he kan, Was shaply for to been an alderman. For catel hadde they y-nogh and rente, And eek hir wyves wolde it wel assente; And elles certeyn were they to blame. 375 It is ful fair to been y-cleped "madame," And goon to vigilies al bifore, And have a mantel roialliche y-bore.