Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... saith , that ever I was i - schape , To wedde a mylk - sop or a coward ape , That wil be over - lad with every wight ! Thou darst nought stonde by thy wyves right . ' This is my lif , but if that I wil fight ; And out atte dore anoon I ...
... saith , that ever I was i - schape , To wedde a mylk - sop or a coward ape , That wil be over - lad with every wight ! Thou darst nought stonde by thy wyves right . ' This is my lif , but if that I wil fight ; And out atte dore anoon I ...
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... of the word : it is not " upon his long neck , " but " long upon his neck . " One of the MSS . used by Tyrwhitt contains the Latin marginal gloss diu . At bothe the worldes endes , as saith Trophé , THE MONKES TALE . 11.
... of the word : it is not " upon his long neck , " but " long upon his neck . " One of the MSS . used by Tyrwhitt contains the Latin marginal gloss diu . At bothe the worldes endes , as saith Trophé , THE MONKES TALE . 11.
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Percy Society. At bothe the worldes endes , as saith Trophé , In stede of boundes he a piler sette . A lemman hadde this noble campioun , That highte Dejanire , freissh as May ; And as these clerkes maken mencioun , Sche hath him sent a ...
Percy Society. At bothe the worldes endes , as saith Trophé , In stede of boundes he a piler sette . A lemman hadde this noble campioun , That highte Dejanire , freissh as May ; And as these clerkes maken mencioun , Sche hath him sent a ...
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... Saith thus , that whilom tway felawes wente On pylgrimage in a ful good entente ; And happed so , thay com into a toun , Wher as ther was such congregacioun Of poeple , and eek so streyt of herbergage , That thay fond nought as moche as ...
... Saith thus , that whilom tway felawes wente On pylgrimage in a ful good entente ; And happed so , thay com into a toun , Wher as ther was such congregacioun Of poeple , and eek so streyt of herbergage , That thay fond nought as moche as ...
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... saith that thay been Warnyng of thinges that men after seen . And forthermore , I pray yow loketh wel In the olde Testament , of Daniel , If he huld dremes eny vanyté . Rede eek of Joseph , and ther schal ye see Whethir dremes ben som ...
... saith that thay been Warnyng of thinges that men after seen . And forthermore , I pray yow loketh wel In the olde Testament , of Daniel , If he huld dremes eny vanyté . Rede eek of Joseph , and ther schal ye see Whethir dremes ben som ...
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