 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1904 - 842 pągines
...477. that ff, Gg (467) this at. 478. the, ie thte. Thou shall while that thou lyvest, yere by yere 481 ianere, sith that Crist is sovereyn and the preest meene and mediatour bitwi wymmcn, maydenes and wyves, That weren trew in lovyng al hire lyves ; And telle of false men that hem... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1928 - 276 pągines
...fonft. (to put the out of were R.1 Ad.1). 432—480 51—526 Thow shall, while that thou lyuest, yeer by yere, The moste partye of thy tyme spende In makyng of a glorious legende Of good« wommen, maydenes and wyues, 85 That weren trewe in louyng al hire lyues, And telle of false... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1928 - 762 pągines
...version of the Prologue to LGW (written probably in 1386) Alceste imposes this penance upon the poet: "Thou shalt while that thou lyvest, yere by yere,...spende In makyng of a glorious legende Of goode wymmen . . . And whan this book is made, yive it the Queene, On my byhalfe, at Eltham or at Sheene." If Chaucer... | |
 | Robert E. Lewis - 1963 - 134 pągines
...sotil and so meruelous, Pat it wer harde be mater to discryue. cl450(cl386) Chaucer LGW Prol.(l) 483: The moste partye of thy tyme spende In makyng of a glorious legende Of goode wymmen cl450(?al400) Destr.Troy 559: I thanke you a thowsaund tymes. . Pat ye kythe me suche kyndnes . this... | |
 | Piero Boitani, Jill Mann - 2003 - 338 pągines
...narrative: Thow shalt, while that thou lyvest, yer by yere, The moste partye of thy tyme spende In makynge of a glorious legende Of goode wymmen, maydenes and wyves, That weren trewe in lovyng al hire lyves; And telle of false men that hem bytraien, That al hir lyf ne don nat... | |
 | Sarah Salih - 2006 - 204 pągines
...of the Rose and Troilus and Criseyde, Cupid commands Chaucer Thow shalt, while that thou lyvest, yer by yere, The moste partye of thy tyme spende In makyng...legende Of goode wymmen, maydenes and wyves, That weren trewe in lovnyg al hire lyves.41 It might seem entirely appropriate that the author offer a collection... | |
 | Carolyn P. Collette - 2006 - 230 pągines
...Legend in its assignation of a penance in which 'Thow shalt, while that thou lyvest, yer by yere, I The moste partye of thy tyme spende / In makyng of a glorious legende' (F 481-43; my italics). There are more linguistic crossovers as well: for example, the echo some readers... | |
 | 414 pągines
...speaks, it is first to Alceste, who brushes aside his self-defense and sets his penance in the form of a "glorious legende / Of goode wymmen, maydenes and wyves, / That weren trewe in lovyng al hire lyves."26 Chaucer goes further here than Gower in his description of royal... | |
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Thow shalt, while that thou lyvest, yer by yere, The moste partye of thy tyme spende In makyng of a glorious legende... 
