Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... certis volucres sagittis ; Poma cernenti rapuit draconi Aureo læva gravior metallo ; Cerberum traxit triplici catena ; Victor immitem posuise fertur Pabulum sævis dominum quadrigis ; Hydra combusto periit veneno ; Fronte turpatus ...
... certis volucres sagittis ; Poma cernenti rapuit draconi Aureo læva gravior metallo ; Cerberum traxit triplici catena ; Victor immitem posuise fertur Pabulum sævis dominum quadrigis ; Hydra combusto periit veneno ; Fronte turpatus ...
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Percy Society. I can nought love a coward , by my feith . For certis , what so eny womman seith , We alle desiren , if it mighte be , To have housbondes , hardy , riche , and fre , And secré , and no nygard , ne no fool , Ne him that is ...
Percy Society. I can nought love a coward , by my feith . For certis , what so eny womman seith , We alle desiren , if it mighte be , To have housbondes , hardy , riche , and fre , And secré , and no nygard , ne no fool , Ne him that is ...
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... Certis such cry ne lamentacioun Was never of ladies maad , whan Ilioun 16830 168.10 16833-0 Gaufred . Geoffrey de Vinsauf , the author of a celebrated medieval treatise on writing poetry , entitled , Nova Poetria . Tyrwhitt has quoted ...
... Certis such cry ne lamentacioun Was never of ladies maad , whan Ilioun 16830 168.10 16833-0 Gaufred . Geoffrey de Vinsauf , the author of a celebrated medieval treatise on writing poetry , entitled , Nova Poetria . Tyrwhitt has quoted ...
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... as saith the prophete David , who so that loveth wickidnes , he hateth his soule , and who so hatith his oughne soule , certis he may love noon other wight in no manere . And therfore in helle is no solace THE PERSONES TALE . 93.
... as saith the prophete David , who so that loveth wickidnes , he hateth his soule , and who so hatith his oughne soule , certis he may love noon other wight in no manere . And therfore in helle is no solace THE PERSONES TALE . 93.
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... certis delices ben the appetites of thy fyve wittes ; as sight , hieryng , smellyng , savoring , and touching . But in helle here sight schal be ful of derknes and of smoke , and her eyen ful of teeris ; and her hieryng ful of ...
... certis delices ben the appetites of thy fyve wittes ; as sight , hieryng , smellyng , savoring , and touching . But in helle here sight schal be ful of derknes and of smoke , and her eyen ful of teeris ; and her hieryng ful of ...
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