- Page 1 and 2: THE CANTERBURY TALES And other Poem
- Page 3 and 4: unappreciated. As regards the manne
- Page 5 and 6: published in Mr Nimmo's Library Edi
- Page 7 and 8: emains to us; if we believe that at
- Page 9 and 10: consequence, to find that his wife,
- Page 11 and 12: very year in which Petrarch transla
- Page 13 and 14: and high Court favour at this time,
- Page 15 and 16: duties by deputy. For some reason u
- Page 17 and 18: hour of the day is not easier to be
- Page 19 and 20: poetical work of Chaucer's is omitt
- Page 21 and 22: labours with examining the accounts
- Page 23 and 24: In fellowship*, and pilgrims were t
- Page 25: Of grease, when she drunken had her
- Page 29 and 30: At sessions there was he lord and s
- Page 31 and 32: She hadde passed many a strange str
- Page 33 and 34: Now is not that of God a full fair
- Page 35 and 36: Dishevel, save his cap, he rode all
- Page 37 and 38: And homeward he shall tellen other
- Page 39 and 40: 8. Algesiras was taken from the Moo
- Page 41 and 42: 38. Chaucer here satirises the fash
- Page 43 and 44: This Duke, of whom I make mentioun,
- Page 45 and 46: When that this worthy Duke, this Th
- Page 47 and 48: That is so low y-brought by tyranny
- Page 49 and 50: He weepeth, waileth, crieth piteous
- Page 51 and 52: And Venus slay'th me on that other
- Page 53 and 54: From year to year full privily his
- Page 55 and 56: And yet doth Juno me well more sham
- Page 57 and 58: The purveyance*, that God hath seen
- Page 59 and 60: As well as-to a proud dispiteous* m
- Page 61 and 62: Walled of stone, and ditched all wi
- Page 63 and 64: The shepen* burning with the blacke
- Page 65 and 66: Ye knowe well, that every lusty kni
- Page 67 and 68: "Fairest of fair, O lady mine Venus
- Page 69 and 70: But suddenly she saw a sighte quain
- Page 71 and 72: That knew so many of adventures old
- Page 73 and 74: No longer then the tourneying shall
- Page 75 and 76: Saturnus saide: "Daughter, hold thy
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Al one, withouten any company. Fare
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And covered with the arms of Dan Ar
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For it is proved by experience; But
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Chaucer was indebted to Boccaccio,
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28. Roundelay: song coming round ag
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55. Every deal: in every part; "dea
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87. Y-wrie: covered, hid; Anglo-Sax
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Notes to the Prologue to the Miller
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And said; "I will not kiss thee, by
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This nigh Nicholas stood still in h
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That if thou wraye* me, thou shalt
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He sigheth, with full many a sorry
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Dark was the night as pitch or as t
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It was for nought, no man his reaso
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tellers to the saviour after he had
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Say forth thy tale, and tarry not t
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Of twenty year, withouten any mo, S
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She said; "Alas! your horse went to
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He mighte do us both a villainy*."
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She ween'd* the clerk had wear'd a
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THE COOK'S TALE. THE PROLOGUE. THE
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Better is rotten apple out of hoard
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The tree of Phillis for her Demopho
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I were right now of tales desolate*
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For in this woe I may not long endu
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"Lordes," she said, "ye knowen ever
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Were all *to-hewn and sticked* at t
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She was so diligent withoute slouth
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Deeper into this case, the truth to
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This messenger, to *do his avantage
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He can me keep from harm and eke fr
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Is complaining: how many may men fi
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There is no man could bring her to
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This King Alla, when he his time se
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18. Stound: short time; German, "st
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Hath not every vessel all of gold;
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And that they had me given all thei
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That saith this proverb in his Alma
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Since ye so preach of Jobe's patien
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That Jenkin clerk, and my gossip, D
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This made him wood* with me all utt
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Than with a woman using for to chid
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3. Jesus and the Samaritan woman: J
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And saith his matins and his holy t
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But home he went, for he might not
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"Amended!" quoth this knight; "alas
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And call him father, for your gentl
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THE FRIAR'S TALE. THE PROLOGUE. Thi
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He could summon, on pain of Christe
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I weened ye were a yeoman truly. *t
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When that they came somewhat out of
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and arrow. 4. Ribibe: the name of a
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Had preached at a church in his man
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"Chide him right well, for sainte c
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Workers of Godde's word, not audito
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'A lord is lost, if he be vicious.
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And fetch'd his fellow, there as la
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Upon the nave, and make him let a f
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23. Mr. Wright says that "it was a
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And many another delectable sight;
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"Let me alone in choosing of my wif
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And eke of other ornamentes all Tha
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Wond'ring upon this word, quaking f
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This marvellous desire his wife t'a
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And thus she said in her benigne vo
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I have not had no part of children
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The rude people, as no wonder is, W
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That I shall go, I will go when you
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That never was there seen with mann
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And when this Walter saw her patien
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Follow Griselda in humility, For it
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Bath's Tale. 6. Very: true; French
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2. Saint Thomas of Ind: St. Thomas
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Upon his bare knees ought all his l
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I feel me now here hoar but on my h
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And with that word they rise up sud
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The Wife of Bath, if ye have unders
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Performed hath the sun his arc diur
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None other cause mighte make him ta
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Every wight is fain to speak him go
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That he'll not find it out in some
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Experience so proves it every day,
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(Ladies, I pray you that ye be not
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6. Stopen: advanced; past participl
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THE SQUIRE'S TALE. THE PROLOGUE. "H
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Nor of their swannes, nor their her
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But sickerly, withouten any fable,
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And eke the wine, in all this melod
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For right anon she wiste* what they
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So deep in grain he dyed his colour
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He saw upon a time a kite flee,* *f
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"Poille," in Italian "Puglia" -- we
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Till that Mercurius' house, the sly
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Against her will, nor kithe* her je
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But when she saw the grisly rockes
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Had gone where I should never come
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Up caught him, and to bed he hath h
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He saw, when voided* were the wilde
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And to the temple his way forth hat
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Why should I more examples hereof s
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As of the truest and the beste wife
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6. Warished: cured; French, "guerir
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["YEA, let that passe," quoth our H
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Now keep them well, for if ye will
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"I deem* anon this clerk his servan
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second. 7. Judges xi. 37, 38. "And
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Then have I in latoun* a shoulder-b
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Now hold your peace, my tale I will
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And thenne will he say, Samsoun! Sa
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For to beware of such an adversary;
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We draw, and let see where the cut
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And ware* you from the sin of avari
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12. Defended: forbidden; French, "d
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1. The Prologue here given was tran
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And thus he sat, till it was passed
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That I you swear, and plighte you m
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To Saint Denis y-comen is Dan John,
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For, by my troth, I have on mine ar
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Of thee, and of the white lily flow
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Is this to you a thing that is hone
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As ye have heard; and, when that I
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He seemeth elvish* by his countenan
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"Ah, Saint Mary, ben'dicite, What a
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His steede was all dapple gray, It
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19. Romances that be royal: so call
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THE TALE. A young man called Melibo
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Up rose then an advocate that was w
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enemies, choosing of the former suc
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undeserved tribulations of the sain
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liketh unto your goodness, that we
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and the power that is given him. An
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Our Hoste said, "As I am faithful m
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4. Though he were shorn full high u
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But now is he in prison in a cave,
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In rain, with wilde beastes walked
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To Odenate, a prince of that count
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Shall bear a distaff, *her cost for
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But he made every man *reny his law
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Thy six fortune hath turn'd into a
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His royal throne might him not avai
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1. The Monk's Tale is founded in it
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28. Pedro the Cruel, King of Aragon
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courtesy to priests. 3. Attamed: co
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And oft of fume,* and of complexion
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A dung cart, as it went for to dung
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And was y-slain anon of Achilles. B
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There as he was full merry and well
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Of Rome, cried the senatores' wives
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of a more local boast, as vaunting
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precentor of Canterbury, wrote a La
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Which that men call in English idle
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Or elles, lo, this maiden's name br
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That had a book with letters of gol
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Tiburce answer'd, and saide, "Broth
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With piteous teares told it anon ri
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That ilke* stone a god thou wilt it
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11. Engine: wit; the devising or co
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(But I will not avowe* that I say,
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conspirator believes that everythin
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The bodies sev'n eke, lo them here
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As usage is, let sweep the floor as
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Believe this as sicker* as your cre
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And while he busy was, this fiendly
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And while this priest was in his bu
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Maken assay, at such time as he wou
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ceases wholly where the opening of
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A thief him might full* rob and bin
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3. The mention of the Cook here, wi
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That be untrue, and nothing by wome
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Thou and thine offspring ever shall
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As we were ent'ring at a thorpe's*
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sure of their salvation, even thoug
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more chiding, and the more deadly h
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that is to say the devil's bellows,
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and that in sundry wise: this is to
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scorning, treachery, sowing of stri
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occasions for that sin to which he
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short, for [in order] it should be
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eplenished with the sight of the pe
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1. The genuineness and real signifi
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Poems of Virgil take here no root,
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told him that he ought to have come
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The fourth statute, To *purchase ev
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To save thy lady's honour ev'rywher
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And mighty Samson, which beguiled t
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to see;" and the subtle-piercing be
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As rose so red, throughout her visa
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"O Fortune cursed, why now and wher
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I spied him soon; to God I make avo
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to her lover, apparently in continu
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My lady gan me suddenly behold, And
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25. Solomon was beguiled by his hea
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Day; where Emily, "doing observance
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How sore, y-wis, there wot no wight
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And for that skill,* 'ocy, ocy,' I
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The next May, if I be not afraid. "
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1. These two lines occur also in Th
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Yet happeth me full oft in books to
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In looking of mine old book all to-
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There ever is clear day, and never
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That there ne were prest,* in her p
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"But natheless, in this condition M
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For I will, of mine own authority,
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That brought thee forth, thou most
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to him concerning the future state
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21. Callisto, daughter of Lycaon, w
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forth, much to the astonishment of
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which follow Virtue and during qual
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And as I stood, and cast aside mine
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Into the middest of the mead each o
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Some brake his spear, some threw do
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Toward them, and the knightes eke *
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"And those that weare chaplets on t
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I must follow the greate company, T
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25. Under support of them that list
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*Ne can them not,* nor ever think *
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Of golde work, than I saw ever. But
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of his "great ruth," "For that thou
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In Fame's House, full of tidings, B
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And not away with stormes beat; For
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And Pythonesses, charmeresses, And
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Herself then wonderfully stretch'd,
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And next him on a pillar was Of cop
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His clarions to beare tho,* *then A
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To hide their good workes eke, And
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And *do it blow* in clarioun. *caus
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Men might have heard it easily To R
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That well unnethes* in that place *
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But at the last I saw a man, Which
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tyrant of Corinth. The story of his
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character of Hermes enough to warra
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78. To put an ape into one's hood,
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eturn the love of Troilus; which he
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Apollo, knew that Troy should be de
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Was full unware that love had his d
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If so thou do, thy wit is well bewa
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etter becomes to sit in a cave and
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An easy pace riding, in *routes twa
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And though that I mine hearte set a
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Nor scrivener-like, nor craftily it
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And high or low, after* a wight int
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"As to my lady chief, and right res
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Such manner folk; what shall I call
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Withoute word, so that it was no ne
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But Troilus, all *whole of cares co
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Dispiteous* Day, thine be the pains
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THE FOURTH BOOK A BRIEF Proem to th
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"O Death, alas! *why n'ilt thou do
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Troilus protests that his lady shal
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For all too little hath she with us
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That it shall come, therefore the p
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That all this thing was said *of go
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And to you angry Parcae,* Sisters t
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visited Sarpedon only to fetch fire
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Gan *in himself assure,* and thus h
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And therewithal she cast her eyen d
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It seemeth not ye take as for the b
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And in himself he laugh'd right at
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of which the poet so often speaks.
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i.e. although he was not over-forwa
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70. Pandarus, as it repeatedly appe
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of the marriage of John of Gaunt, t
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Beauty, and looks, ever-in-one,* *c
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Present* the queen and other mo', *
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And with them bode* till it was day
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And turn all joy to penances; And b
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And well approv'd of *uncouth kind,
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1. The birds on the weathervanes we
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whatever circumstances, undertaken,
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That in this darke world me winds*
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When that the sun out of the south
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The mountance* of a furlong way of
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And the Parliament of Fowles, as I
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In remembrance of her, and in honou
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een celebrated in The Franklin's Ta
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Comfort is none, but in you, Lady d
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We have none other melody nor glee,
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To penitents that be *to mercy able
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L'Envoy. Forthe, complaint! forth,
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console John of Gaunt under the los
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*Weive thy lust,* and let thy ghost
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2. Ure: "heur," or destiny; the sam