Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... leve as thou hast might To performe al thi wil in engendrure , Thow haddist bigeten many a creature . Allas ! why werest thou so wyd a cope ? God gif me sorwe ! and I were a pope , Nought only thou , but every mighty man , Though he ...
... leve as thou hast might To performe al thi wil in engendrure , Thow haddist bigeten many a creature . Allas ! why werest thou so wyd a cope ? God gif me sorwe ! and I were a pope , Nought only thou , but every mighty man , Though he ...
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... leve , and went his way . But er he hadde half his cours i - sayled , Noot I nought why , ne what meschaunce it ayled , But casuelly the schippes bothom rent , And schip and man under the watir went In sight of other schippes ther ...
... leve , and went his way . But er he hadde half his cours i - sayled , Noot I nought why , ne what meschaunce it ayled , But casuelly the schippes bothom rent , And schip and man under the watir went In sight of other schippes ther ...
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... Leve I this Chaunteclere in his pasture ; And after wol I telle his aventure . Whan that the moneth in which the world bigan , That highte March , whan God maked first man , 16650 16660 16670 Was complet , and y - passed were also , 52 ...
... Leve I this Chaunteclere in his pasture ; And after wol I telle his aventure . Whan that the moneth in which the world bigan , That highte March , whan God maked first man , 16650 16660 16670 Was complet , and y - passed were also , 52 ...
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... leves in maner of breches , to hiden here membirs . Here may ye see , that dedly synne hath first suggestioun of the feend , as scheweth here by the neddir ; and aftir- ward the delit of the fleisch , as scheweth here by Eva ; and after ...
... leves in maner of breches , to hiden here membirs . Here may ye see , that dedly synne hath first suggestioun of the feend , as scheweth here by the neddir ; and aftir- ward the delit of the fleisch , as scheweth here by Eva ; and after ...
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... leve of hir housbonde , that is hir lord ; algate he schulde be so by resoun . Sche schulde eek serve him in al honesté , and ben attempre of hir array . I wot wel that thay schulde sette here entent to please her housebondes , but ...
... leve of hir housbonde , that is hir lord ; algate he schulde be so by resoun . Sche schulde eek serve him in al honesté , and ben attempre of hir array . I wot wel that thay schulde sette here entent to please her housebondes , but ...
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