The works of Geoffrey ChaucerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1904 - 771 pàgines |
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... Seint Cecyle , and in its introduction the narrator is made to speak as an unworthy sone of Eve ' ( 1. 60 ) instead of as a woman , and to address those that reden that I write ' ( 1. 78 ) instead of the listeners to a tale told along ...
... Seint Cecyle , and in its introduction the narrator is made to speak as an unworthy sone of Eve ' ( 1. 60 ) instead of as a woman , and to address those that reden that I write ' ( 1. 78 ) instead of the listeners to a tale told along ...
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... Seint Cecyle and the Grisilde , and from its subject , style , and tone appears to have been written towards the close of the same period . On the other hand , the Prioress's Tale of the little chorister , though it goes back in feeling ...
... Seint Cecyle and the Grisilde , and from its subject , style , and tone appears to have been written towards the close of the same period . On the other hand , the Prioress's Tale of the little chorister , though it goes back in feeling ...
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... Seint Cecyle to the re - telling in his own fashion of a tale like that of the Canon's Yeoman which he may have heard in the streets . For about one - third of the Tales no ' original ' properly so called is known to exist , but from ...
... Seint Cecyle to the re - telling in his own fashion of a tale like that of the Canon's Yeoman which he may have heard in the streets . For about one - third of the Tales no ' original ' properly so called is known to exist , but from ...
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... Seint Cecyle ) , Clerk and Monk have already been indicated . The Man of Lawes story of Constance is derived from the Anglo - French chronicle of Nicholas Trivet , an English Dominican of the first half of the fourteenth century ; the ...
... Seint Cecyle ) , Clerk and Monk have already been indicated . The Man of Lawes story of Constance is derived from the Anglo - French chronicle of Nicholas Trivet , an English Dominican of the first half of the fourteenth century ; the ...
Pàgina 11
... seint Maure or of seint Beneit , By - cause that it was old and som - del streit , - This ilke Monk leet oldė thyngės pace , And heeld after the newe world the space . He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen That seith that hunters bethnat ...
... seint Maure or of seint Beneit , By - cause that it was old and som - del streit , - This ilke Monk leet oldė thyngės pace , And heeld after the newe world the space . He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen That seith that hunters bethnat ...
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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.