The works of Geoffrey ChaucerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1904 - 771 pàgines |
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... Lord Scrope in the suit between him and Sir Robert Grosvenor as to the right to a certain coat of arms , which he ... Lords Appellant from his counsels , and declared his determination no longer to live under governance , and with the ...
... Lord Scrope in the suit between him and Sir Robert Grosvenor as to the right to a certain coat of arms , which he ... Lords Appellant from his counsels , and declared his determination no longer to live under governance , and with the ...
Pàgina 4
... lord the Duc John of Lancastre , ' and ' made by ( i.e. about ) my lady of York , doughter to the kyng of Spaygne and my lord huntingdoon , some tyme Duc of Excestre . ' The lady of York ' was John of Gaunt's sister - in - law , through ...
... lord the Duc John of Lancastre , ' and ' made by ( i.e. about ) my lady of York , doughter to the kyng of Spaygne and my lord huntingdoon , some tyme Duc of Excestre . ' The lady of York ' was John of Gaunt's sister - in - law , through ...
Pàgina 11
... lord was kepere of the celle . The reule of 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 ...
... lord was kepere of the celle . The reule of 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 ...
Pàgina 11
... lord ful fat and in good poynt ; Hise eyén stepe and rollynge in his heed , That stemed as a forneys of a leed ; His bootés souple , his hors in greet estaat . Now certeinly he was a fair prelaat . He was nat pale , as a forpynéd goost ...
... lord ful fat and in good poynt ; Hise eyén stepe and rollynge in his heed , That stemed as a forneys of a leed ; His bootés souple , his hors in greet estaat . Now certeinly he was a fair prelaat . He was nat pale , as a forpynéd goost ...
Pàgina 11
... lord that is in Engėlond , To maken hym lyvė by his proprẻ good In honour dettelees , but he were wood , Or lyve as scarsly as hym list desire ; And able for to helpen al a shire In any caas that myghte falle or happe ; And yet this ...
... lord that is in Engėlond , To maken hym lyvė by his proprẻ good In honour dettelees , but he were wood , Or lyve as scarsly as hym list desire ; And able for to helpen al a shire In any caas that myghte falle or happe ; And yet this ...
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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.