Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... Tyrwhitt . 15426 - bothe . I have added this word as apparently necessary to the metre , though found neither in the Harl . MS nor Lansd . MS . 15432 - thou hast . These words are added from the Lansd . MS . , and seem necessary to the ...
... Tyrwhitt . 15426 - bothe . I have added this word as apparently necessary to the metre , though found neither in the Harl . MS nor Lansd . MS . 15432 - thou hast . These words are added from the Lansd . MS . , and seem necessary to the ...
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... Tyrwhitt has adopted a reading which is far less natural and expressive , in the language of Chaucer's age , " of hire the course withholde " . The wheel of fortune is a well known emblem not only in medieval literature , but in ...
... Tyrwhitt has adopted a reading which is far less natural and expressive , in the language of Chaucer's age , " of hire the course withholde " . The wheel of fortune is a well known emblem not only in medieval literature , but in ...
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... 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 his strengthes in his heres were . And 8 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... 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 his strengthes in his heres were . And 8 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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... Tyrwhitt's reading , which he found in other MSS . , because it represents the Latin of Boethius , as quoted above , and which , in Chaucer's prose version of that writer , is translated thus , " And the last of his labors was , that he ...
... Tyrwhitt's reading , which he found in other MSS . , because it represents the Latin of Boethius , as quoted above , and which , in Chaucer's prose version of that writer , is translated thus , " And the last of his labors was , that he ...
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... intended to refer under this name . In the margin of one of the Cambridge MSS . , collated by Tyrwhitt , we find the gloss , Ille vates Chaldæorum Tropheus . The glorious ceptre and real magesté , That had the 12 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... intended to refer under this name . In the margin of one of the Cambridge MSS . , collated by Tyrwhitt , we find the gloss , Ille vates Chaldæorum Tropheus . The glorious ceptre and real magesté , That had the 12 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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