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Ages appears beginning called Canterbury century Chantecler Chaucer Clarendon Press close Cock common compar construction Crow dream dremes early edited Ellesmere examples expression eyes fable falle French give glossary greet hath heere herte hire hise Host humours impers indicates John Knight Latin London lord March meaning medieval Middle English Monk Monk's Tale nature never Nun's Priest's Tale original pa.t passed perhaps plural poem probably Prologue quod reading reference Reynard rime Roman says seems sense shal shows shut SKEAT story swich syllables tell ther thing thou thyng translated University usually verse W. W. SKEAT whan Wife wolde written
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Page 23 - For Seint Paul seith that al that writen is, To oure doctrine it is y-write y-wis ; Taketh the fruyt and lat the chaf be stille.
Page 18 - Wommannes conseil broghte us first to wo And made Adam fro Paradys to go, Ther as he was ful myrie and wel at ese; But for I noot to whom it myght displese, If I conseil of wommen wolde blame, Passe over, for I seyde it in my game.
Page 6 - Napoplexie shente nat hir heed ; No wyn ne drank she, neither whit ne reed ; Hir bord was served moost with whit and blak, — Milk and broun breed, — in which she foond no lak ; Seynd bacoun and somtyme an ey or tweye, For she was, as it were, a maner deye.
Page 12 - What sholde I moore unto this tale sayn ? The peple out sterte and caste the cart to grounde, And in the myddel of the dong they founde The dede man, that mordred was al newe. ' O blisful God, that art so just and trewe ! 4240 Lo, how that thou biwreyest...
Page 18 - And so bifel that, as he caste his ye Among the wortes on a boterflye, He was war of this fox, that lay ful lowe. Nothyng ne liste hym thanne for to crowe, But cride anon, "Cok! cok!
Page 19 - He moste wynke, so loude he wolde cryen; And stonden on his tiptoon therwithal, And strecche forth his nekke, long and smal...
Page 10 - graunt mercy of youre loore, But nathelees, as touchyng Daun Catoun, That hath of wysdom swich a greet renoun, Though that he bad no dremes for to drede, By God, men may in olde bookes rede Of many a man moore of...
Page 9 - Seyde he nat thus, ne do no fors of dremes? Now, sire,' quod she, 'whan we flee fro the bemes. For Goddes love, as...
Page 8 - Ne hym that is agast of every tool, Ne noon avauntour, by that God above! How dorste ye seyn, for shame, unto youre love That any thyng myghte make yow aferd? Have ye no mannes herte, and han a berd? 455 'Alias? and konne ye been agast of svvevenys? No thyng, God woot, but vanitee in swevene is. Swevenes engendren of replecciouns, And ofte of fume, and of complecciouns, Whan humours been to habundant in a wight.