Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... Harl . MS . reads an officer , which probably slipped in by the negligence of a scribe , who had those words on his ear from line 15421. The present reading is given from the Lansd . MS . and Tyrwhitt . 15426 - bothe . I have added this ...
... Harl . MS . reads an officer , which probably slipped in by the negligence of a scribe , who had those words on his ear from line 15421. The present reading is given from the Lansd . MS . and Tyrwhitt . 15426 - bothe . I have added this ...
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... - I have ventured to emendate this line from the Lansd . MS . The Harl . MS . has , " And in metre eek , and in sondry wise " , in which both sense and metre suffer . THE MONKES TALE . I WOL by - waile , THE MONKES PROLOGE . c.
... - I have ventured to emendate this line from the Lansd . MS . The Harl . MS . has , " And in metre eek , and in sondry wise " , in which both sense and metre suffer . THE MONKES TALE . I WOL by - waile , THE MONKES PROLOGE . c.
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... 15509 - This stanza has been accidentally omitted in the Harl . MS , and is here inserted from the Lansd . MS . It represents the fourteenth chapter of the book of Judges . And alle her tayles he togider bond ; And sette THE MONKES TALE .
... 15509 - This stanza has been accidentally omitted in the Harl . MS , and is here inserted from the Lansd . MS . It represents the fourteenth chapter of the book of Judges . And alle her tayles he togider bond ; And sette THE MONKES TALE .
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... Harl . MS . reads , by an evident mistake of the scribe , of Algason . 15541 - neyther siser . Sicera ; a general term for other intoxicating drinks than wine . The Lansd . MS . reads sither . Tyrwhitt has substi- tuted sider . For alle ...
... Harl . MS . reads , by an evident mistake of the scribe , of Algason . 15541 - neyther siser . Sicera ; a general term for other intoxicating drinks than wine . The Lansd . MS . reads sither . Tyrwhitt has substi- tuted sider . For alle ...
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... , in place of Jerusalem , which is the reading of the Harl . MS . 15560 - at the querne grynde . Et clausum in carcere molere fecerunt . Jud . xvi , 21 . For he two pilers schook , and made hem falle THE MONKES TALE . 9.
... , in place of Jerusalem , which is the reading of the Harl . MS . 15560 - at the querne grynde . Et clausum in carcere molere fecerunt . Jud . xvi , 21 . For he two pilers schook , and made hem falle THE MONKES TALE . 9.
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