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And what to do best were, and what t'eschew, That plaited she full oft in many a fold. Now was her hearte warm, now was it cold. And what she thought of, somewhat shall I write, As to mine author listeth to endite. She thoughte first, that Troilus' person She knew by sight, and eke his gentleness; And saide thus: *"All were it not to do'n,'* *although it were To grant him love, yet for the worthiness impossible* It were honour, with play* and with gladness, *pleasing entertainment In honesty with such a lord to deal, For mine estate,* and also for his heal.** *reputation **health "Eke well I wot* my kinge's son is he; *know And, since he hath to see me such delight, If I would utterly his sighte flee, Parauntre* he might have me in despite, *peradventure Through which I mighte stand in worse plight. Now were I fool, me hate to purchase* *obtain for myself Withoute need, where I may stand in grace,* *favour "In ev'rything, I wot, there lies measure;* *a happy medium For though a man forbidde drunkenness, He not forbids that ev'ry creature Be drinkeless for alway, as I guess; Eke, since I know for me is his distress, I oughte not for that thing him despise, Since it is so he meaneth in good wise. "Now set a case, that hardest is, y-wis, Men mighte deeme* that he loveth me; *believe What dishonour were it unto me, this? May I *him let of* that? Why, nay, pardie! *prevent him from* I know also, and alway hear and see, Men love women all this town about; Be they the worse? Why, nay, withoute doubt! "Nor me to love a wonder is it not; For well wot I myself, so God me speed! -- *All would I* that no man wist of this thought -- *although I would* I am one of the fairest, without drede,* *doubt And goodlieste, who so taketh heed; And so men say in all the town of Troy; What wonder is, though he on me have joy? "I am mine owen woman, well at ease, I thank it God, as after mine estate, Right young, and stand untied in *lusty leas,* *pleasant leash Withoute jealousy, or such debate: (of love)* Shall none husband say to me checkmate; For either they be full of jealousy, Or masterful, or love novelty. "What shall I do? to what fine* live I thus? *end Shall I not love, in case if that me lest? What? pardie! I am not religious; Source URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2383 Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/courses/engl201 This work is in the public domain Saylor.org Page 552 of 640
And though that I mine hearte set at rest And keep alway mine honour and my name, By all right I may do to me no shame." But right as when the sunne shineth bright In March, that changeth oftentime his face, And that a cloud is put with wind to flight, Which overspreads the sun as for a space; A cloudy thought gan through her hearte pace,* *pass That overspread her brighte thoughtes all, So that for fear almost she gan to fall. The cloudy thought is of the loss of liberty and security, the stormy life, and the malice of wicked tongues, that love entails: [But] after that her thought began to clear, And saide, "He that nothing undertakes Nothing achieveth, be him *loth or dear."* *unwilling or desirous* And with another thought her hearte quakes; Then sleepeth hope, and after dread awakes, Now hot, now cold; but thus betwixt the tway* *two She rist* her up, and wente forth to play.** *rose **take recreation Adown the stair anon right then she went Into a garden, with her nieces three, And up and down they made many a went,* *winding, turn Flexippe and she, Tarke, Antigone, To playe, that it joy was for to see; And other of her women, a great rout,* *troop Her follow'd in the garden all about. This yard was large, and railed the alleys, And shadow'd well with blossomy boughes green, And benched new, and sanded all the ways, In which she walked arm and arm between; Till at the last Antigone the sheen* *bright, lovely Gan on a Trojan lay to singe clear, That it a heaven was her voice to hear. Antigone's song is of virtuous love for a noble object; and it is singularly fitted to deepen the impression made on the mind of Cressida by the brave aspect of Troilus, and by her own cogitations. The singer, having praised the lover and rebuked the revilers of love, proceeds: "What is the Sunne worse of his *kind right,* *true nature* Though that a man, for feebleness of eyen, May not endure to see on it for bright? Or Love the worse, tho' wretches on it cryen? No weal* is worth, that may no sorrow drien;** *happiness **endure And forthy,* who that hath a head of verre,** *therefore **glass From cast of stones ware him in the werre. "But I, with all my heart and all my might, As I have lov'd, will love unto my last My deare heart, and all my owen knight, In which my heart y-growen is so fast, Source URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2383 Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/courses/engl201 This work is in the public domain Saylor.org Page 553 of 640
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THE CANTERBURY TALES And other Poem
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unappreciated. As regards the manne
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published in Mr Nimmo's Library Edi
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emains to us; if we believe that at
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consequence, to find that his wife,
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very year in which Petrarch transla
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and high Court favour at this time,
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duties by deputy. For some reason u
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hour of the day is not easier to be
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poetical work of Chaucer's is omitt
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labours with examining the accounts
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In fellowship*, and pilgrims were t
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Of grease, when she drunken had her
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As for to deale with no such pourai
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At sessions there was he lord and s
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She hadde passed many a strange str
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Now is not that of God a full fair
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Dishevel, save his cap, he rode all
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And homeward he shall tellen other
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8. Algesiras was taken from the Moo
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38. Chaucer here satirises the fash
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This Duke, of whom I make mentioun,
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When that this worthy Duke, this Th
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That is so low y-brought by tyranny
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He weepeth, waileth, crieth piteous
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And Venus slay'th me on that other
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From year to year full privily his
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And yet doth Juno me well more sham
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The purveyance*, that God hath seen
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As well as-to a proud dispiteous* m
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Walled of stone, and ditched all wi
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The shepen* burning with the blacke
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Ye knowe well, that every lusty kni
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"Fairest of fair, O lady mine Venus
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But suddenly she saw a sighte quain
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That knew so many of adventures old
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No longer then the tourneying shall
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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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Page 505 and 506: 25. Under support of them that list
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Page 509 and 510: Of golde work, than I saw ever. But
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Page 515 and 516: And not away with stormes beat; For
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Page 519 and 520: Herself then wonderfully stretch'd,
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Page 523 and 524: His clarions to beare tho,* *then A
Page 525 and 526: To hide their good workes eke, And
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Page 529 and 530: Men might have heard it easily To R
Page 531 and 532: That well unnethes* in that place *
Page 533 and 534: But at the last I saw a man, Which
Page 535 and 536: tyrant of Corinth. The story of his
Page 537 and 538: character of Hermes enough to warra
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Page 543 and 544: Apollo, knew that Troy should be de
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Page 551: An easy pace riding, in *routes twa
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Page 567 and 568: Dispiteous* Day, thine be the pains
Page 569 and 570: THE FOURTH BOOK A BRIEF Proem to th
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Page 591 and 592: And in himself he laugh'd right at
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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
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