Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey ChaucerPercy Society, 1848 |
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Page 131 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek ; Or call up him that left half -told The story of Cambuscan bold...
Page 174 - Have maad come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen up and doun.
Page 273 - That in this contree al the peple sleeth, And with his spere he smoot his herte a-two, And wente his wey with-outen wordes mo. He hath a thousand slayn this pestilence : And, maister, er ye come in his presence, Me thinketh that it were necessarie For to be war of swich an adversarie: Beth redy for to mete him evermore. Thus taughte me my dame, I sey na-more.
Page 187 - Toward the gardyn, ther as sche had hight. And he was to the gardyn-ward also ; For wel he spyed whan sche wolde go Out of hir hous, to any maner place.
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Page 156 - I telle yow of Cambynskan, That in his time many a cite wan : And after wil I speke of Algarsif, How that he wan Theodora to his wif, For whom ful ofie in grete peril he was, Ne had he ben holpen by the hors of bras.
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Page 273 - Bothe man and womman, child, and hyne, and page. I trowe his habitacioun be there. To been avysed, greet wysdom it were, Er that he dide a man a dishonour.