Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... herd this tale . For sche is no thing of such pacience As was this Melibeus wyf dame Prudence . By Goddes boones ! whan I bete my knaves , Sche bringeth me forth the grete clobbet staves , And crieth , ' slee the dogges everychon ! And ...
... herd this tale . For sche is no thing of such pacience As was this Melibeus wyf dame Prudence . By Goddes boones ! whan I bete my knaves , Sche bringeth me forth the grete clobbet staves , And crieth , ' slee the dogges everychon ! And ...
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... herd say . " This worthy monk took al in pacience , And saide , " I wol doon al my diligence , Als fer as souneth into honesté , To telle yow a tale , or tuo or thre ; And if yow lust to herken hider - ward , I will yow say the lif of ...
... herd say . " This worthy monk took al in pacience , And saide , " I wol doon al my diligence , Als fer as souneth into honesté , To telle yow a tale , or tuo or thre ; And if yow lust to herken hider - ward , I will yow say the lif of ...
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... herd , and mete and drynk he hadde So smal that wel unnethe it may suffise , And therwithal it was ful pore and badde . And on a day bifel that in that hour Whan that his mete was wont to be brought , The gayler schet the dores of that ...
... herd , and mete and drynk he hadde So smal that wel unnethe it may suffise , And therwithal it was ful pore and badde . And on a day bifel that in that hour Whan that his mete was wont to be brought , The gayler schet the dores of that ...
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... of the Harl . MS . , tyrannie . The Lansd . MS . has tor- mentrie . 16009 - sad . The Lansd . MS . reads ful filled , which is the reading adopted by Tyrwhitt . That with his eris herd he how thay sayde , 28 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... of the Harl . MS . , tyrannie . The Lansd . MS . has tor- mentrie . 16009 - sad . The Lansd . MS . reads ful filled , which is the reading adopted by Tyrwhitt . That with his eris herd he how thay sayde , 28 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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Percy Society. That with his eris herd he how thay sayde , " Her is this fals traitour , this Neroun ! " For fere almost out of his witte he brayde , And to his goddes pitously he prayde For socour , but it mighte nought betyde ; For ...
Percy Society. That with his eris herd he how thay sayde , " Her is this fals traitour , this Neroun ! " For fere almost out of his witte he brayde , And to his goddes pitously he prayde For socour , but it mighte nought betyde ; For ...
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