Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... falle . Adam . Lo Adam , in the feld of Damassene 15480 15490 The Monkes Tale . This tale is evidently founded upon Boccaccio's celebrated work De casibus virorum illustrium ; but Chaucer has intro- duced the several stories according ...
... falle . Adam . Lo Adam , in the feld of Damassene 15480 15490 The Monkes Tale . This tale is evidently founded upon Boccaccio's celebrated work De casibus virorum illustrium ; but Chaucer has intro- duced the several stories according ...
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... falle to wrecchednesse ? Thend of this caytif was , as I schal say , His foomen made a fest upon a day , And made him as here fool biforn hem play ; And this was in a temple of gret array . But atte last he made a foul affray ; 15550 ...
... falle to wrecchednesse ? Thend of this caytif was , as I schal say , His foomen made a fest upon a day , And made him as here fool biforn hem play ; And this was in a temple of gret array . But atte last he made a foul affray ; 15550 ...
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Percy Society. For he two pilers schook , and made hem falle , And doun fel temple and al , and ther it lay , And slough himsilf and eek his fomen alle ; This is to sayn , the princes everichon ; And eek thre thousand bodies were ther ...
Percy Society. For he two pilers schook , and made hem falle , And doun fel temple and al , and ther it lay , And slough himsilf and eek his fomen alle ; This is to sayn , the princes everichon ; And eek thre thousand bodies were ther ...
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... falle . But natheles som clerkes hir excusen , By oon that highte Nessus , that it makyd . Be as be may , I wil nought hir accusyn ; But on his bak he wered this schirt al naked , Til that his fleisch was for the venym blaked . And whan ...
... falle . But natheles som clerkes hir excusen , By oon that highte Nessus , that it makyd . Be as be may , I wil nought hir accusyn ; But on his bak he wered this schirt al naked , Til that his fleisch was for the venym blaked . And whan ...
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... falle To wrecchednesse and to mysadventure . Aurilian , whan that the governaunce Of Rome cam into his hondes tway , He schop him of this queen to do vengeaunce ; And with his legiouns he took the way Toward Cenoby ; and schortly to say ...
... falle To wrecchednesse and to mysadventure . Aurilian , whan that the governaunce Of Rome cam into his hondes tway , He schop him of this queen to do vengeaunce ; And with his legiouns he took the way Toward Cenoby ; and schortly to say ...
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