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The Prologue - Page 15
by Geoffrey Chaucer - 1903 - 116 pages
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Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - 1928 - 760 pages
...Maudelayne. With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISIK. In al this world ne was ther noon hym lik — 412 To speke of phisik and of surgerye; For he was grounded in astronojnye. He kepte his pacient a Jill greet deel \ In houres^by his magyk natureel; ^'w^ '-^-^^XXH...
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General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 226 pages
...barge ycleped was the Maudelayne. 410 DOCTOUR OF PHISIK With us ther was a doctour of phisik. In al this world ne was ther noon hym lik, To speke of phisik...astronomye, He kepte his pacient a ful greet deel In houres, by his magyk natureel. Wei koude he fortunen the ascendent Of hise ymages for his pacient....
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Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire

Mann - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 356 pages
...further interest in illustrating the reason Chaucer gives for the Doctor's particular excellence. In al this world ne was ther noon hym lik, To speke of phisik...astronomye. He kepte his pacient a ful greet deel In houres by his magyk natureel. Wel koude he fortunen the ascendent Of his ymages for his pacient....
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Philosophical Magazine

Physics - 1881 - 504 pages
...physiologically perfect." | " With us there was a doctour of phisik, In all the world ne was there non him lyk To speke of phisik and of surgerye, For he was grounded in astronomye. He knew the cause of every rualadye, Were it of hot or cold orinoyste or drye, And where engendered and...
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Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems

William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - English poetry - 1916 - 460 pages
...was the Maudelayne. With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISYK, In al this world ne was ther noon him !yk To speke of phisik and of surgerye; For he was grounded in astronomve. He kepte his pacient a ful greet del In houres, by his magik uaturel.16 i stews. - sore....
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Chaucer and the Subject of History

Lee Patterson - Poetry - 1991 - 508 pages
...innocence by which to measure the narrator of her Tale. In the General Prologue we were told that "in al this world ne was ther noon hym lik, / To speke of phisik and of surgerye" (412-13). After the Tale Harry Bailey provides a litany of counterfeit medical terms: "urynals," "jurdones,"...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...For aught 1 wool, he was of Dertemouthe. (1. 390-391) 29 With us ther was a doctour of phisik; In al d waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace t a surgerye. For he was grounded in astronomye. (1. 413—416) 30 He kepte that he wan in pestilence,...
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The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo

Alistair Cameron Crombie - Science - 1995 - 756 pages
...(U. 411 et seq.) : With us ther was a Doctour of Phisyk; In ,< l this world ne was ther noon hym lyk. To speke of phisik and of surgerye; For he was grounded in astronomye. He kepte his pacient a ful greet del In houres, by his magik nature!. Wei coude he fortunen the ascendent Of his images for his pacient....
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The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment

Geoffrey Chaucer - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 324 pages
...and in Spayne. 410 His barge ycleped was the Maudelayne. With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISIK; In al this world ne was ther noon hym lik, To speke of phisik...and of surgerye, For he was grounded in astronomye. 415 He kepte his pacient a ful greet deel In houres by his magyk natureel. Wel koude he fortunen the...
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Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse

Michaela Paasche Grudin - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...swich, his wordes weren so wise. (I [A] 312-13) And the Physician's speech is purely professional: In al this world ne was ther noon hym lik, To speke of phisik...and of surgerye, For he was grounded in astronomye. (I [A] 412-14) People are credulous, and key elements of a particular style are easily mimicked. Thus,...
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