Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... peyne have som pité , And send him drynk , and elles most he deye . And out of this asses cheke , that was so dreye , Out of a woung toth sprong anon a welle , Of which he dronk y - nough , schortly to seye ; Thus halp him God , as ...
... peyne have som pité , And send him drynk , and elles most he deye . And out of this asses cheke , that was so dreye , Out of a woung toth sprong anon a welle , Of which he dronk y - nough , schortly to seye ; Thus halp him God , as ...
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... peynes were importable . And certeynly the wreche was resonable ; For many a mannes guttes dede he peyne ; But fro his purpos cursed and dampnable , For al his smert , he nolde him nought restreyne . But bad anoon apparailen his host ...
... peynes were importable . And certeynly the wreche was resonable ; For many a mannes guttes dede he peyne ; But fro his purpos cursed and dampnable , For al his smert , he nolde him nought restreyne . But bad anoon apparailen his host ...
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... peyne , As ye han said , to hiere of hevynesse . Sire monk , no more of this , so God yow blesse ; Your tale anoyeth al this compaignie ; Such talkyng is nought worth a boterflye , For therinne is noon disport ne game . Wherfor , sir ...
... peyne , As ye han said , to hiere of hevynesse . Sire monk , no more of this , so God yow blesse ; Your tale anoyeth al this compaignie ; Such talkyng is nought worth a boterflye , For therinne is noon disport ne game . Wherfor , sir ...
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... peyne . 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 ...
... peyne . 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 ...
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... peyne To speke of God in honour and prayere . The firste vertue , sone , if thou wilt lere , Is to restreigne and kepe wel thy tonge ; Thus lerne clerkes , whan that thay ben yonge . My sone , of mochil speking evel avised , Ther lasse ...
... peyne To speke of God in honour and prayere . The firste vertue , sone , if thou wilt lere , Is to restreigne and kepe wel thy tonge ; Thus lerne clerkes , whan that thay ben yonge . My sone , of mochil speking evel avised , Ther lasse ...
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