Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer with an Essay on His Language and Versification and an Introductory Discourse Together with Notes and a Glossary by Thomas Tyrwhitt

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Página 3 - Of Studie toke he moste cure and hede. Not a word spake he more than was nede ; And that was said in forme and reverence. And short and quike, and ful of high sentence. Souning in moral vertue was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. A SERGEANT OF THE
Página 4 - Ful loth were him to cursen for his tithes, But rather wolde he yeven out of doute, Unto his poure parishens aboute, Of his offring, and eke of his substance. He coude in litel thing have suffisance. Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder, But he ne left nought for no rain ne thornier, In
Página 60 - I wol you tell a tale, which that I Lerned at Padowe of a worthy clerk, As preved by his wordes and his werk. He is now ded, and nailed in his eheste, I pray to God so yeve his soûle reste. Fraunceis Petrark, the lauréat poete, Highte this
Página 6 - win, and wel to drinke us leste. A semely man our hoste was with alle For to han ben a marshal in an halle. A large man he was with eyen stepe, A fairer burgeis is ther non in Chepe : Bold of his speche, and wise and wel ytaught, And of
Página 4 - of a toun : But riche he was of holy thought and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, That Cristcs gospel trewely wolde prêche. His parishens devoutly wolde he teche. Benigne he was, and wonder diligent, And in adversité ful patient : And
Página 2 - hadde he, with a broune visage. Of wood-craft coude he wel alle the usage. Upon his .arme he bare a gaie bracer, And by his side a swerd and a bokeler, And on that other side a gaie daggere, Harneised wel, and sharpe as point of spero : A Cristofre on his brest of silver shene.
Página 1 - Agen another hethen in Turkic : And evermore he hadde a sovereine pris. And though that he was worthy he was wise, And of his port as meke as is a mayde. He never yet no vilanie ne
Página 1 - A lover, and a lusty bacheler, With lockes crull as they were laide in presse. Of twenty yere of age he was I gesse. Of his stature he was of even lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and grete of
Página 2 - A Cristofre on his brest of silver shene. An home he bare, the baudrik was of grene. A forster was he sothely as I gesse. Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, That of hire smiling was ful simple and coy ; Hire gretest
Página 3 - was fee simple to him in effect, His pourchasing might not ben in suspect. Nowher so besy a man as he ther n'as, And yet he semed besier than he was. In termes hadde he cas and domes alle, That fro the time of king Will, weren falle. Therto he coude endite, and make a

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