Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... moche folk , I gesse . I say for me , it is a gret disease , Wher as men han ben in gret welthe and ease , To hieren of her sodeyn fal , allas ! 16247 - Tregedis . These two lines are given differently in Tyrwhitt , and perhaps better ...
... moche folk , I gesse . I say for me , it is a gret disease , Wher as men han ben in gret welthe and ease , To hieren of her sodeyn fal , allas ! 16247 - Tregedis . These two lines are given differently in Tyrwhitt , and perhaps better ...
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... moche as oon cotage , is : 16460 16470 16470 - Oon of the grettest auctours . " Cicero , de Divin . 1. i , c . 27 , relates this and the following story ; but in a contrary order ; and with so many other differences , that one might be ...
... moche as oon cotage , is : 16460 16470 16470 - Oon of the grettest auctours . " Cicero , de Divin . 1. i , c . 27 , relates this and the following story ; but in a contrary order ; and with so many other differences , that one might be ...
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... prostratam suem . See also Gesta Romanorum , c . 159 , where a story of the same purport is quoted from Josephus , in libro de casu rerum naturaliam . ” — Tyrwhitt . To lift him up , and moche care and wo 66 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... prostratam suem . See also Gesta Romanorum , c . 159 , where a story of the same purport is quoted from Josephus , in libro de casu rerum naturaliam . ” — Tyrwhitt . To lift him up , and moche care and wo 66 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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Percy Society. To lift him up , and moche care and wo , So unwelde was this sory pallid gost . And to the Maunciple thanne spak oure host : " Bycause drink hath dominacioun Upon this man , by my savacioun I trow he lewedly tel wol his ...
Percy Society. To lift him up , and moche care and wo , So unwelde was this sory pallid gost . And to the Maunciple thanne spak oure host : " Bycause drink hath dominacioun Upon this man , by my savacioun I trow he lewedly tel wol his ...
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... moche as a man may aquyte himself byforn God by penaunce in this world , and not by tresor , therfore schuld he praye to God give him respit a while , to wepe and to waile his trespas . For certes , al the sorwe that a man myght make ...
... moche as a man may aquyte himself byforn God by penaunce in this world , and not by tresor , therfore schuld he praye to God give him respit a while , to wepe and to waile his trespas . For certes , al the sorwe that a man myght make ...
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