Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... thilke same night , the king was slawe , And Darius occupied his degré , Though therto neyther had he right ne lawe . Lordyngs , ensample her - by may ye take , How that in lordschip is no sikernesse ; For whan fortune wil a man for ...
... thilke same night , the king was slawe , And Darius occupied his degré , Though therto neyther had he right ne lawe . Lordyngs , ensample her - by may ye take , How that in lordschip is no sikernesse ; For whan fortune wil a man for ...
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... thilke cast , No more schuld he playe thilke game Til fully fourty dayes were y - past , Than wold sche suffre him to do the same . Al were this Odenake wilde or tame , He gat no more of hir , for thus sche sayde , Hit nas but wyves ...
... thilke cast , No more schuld he playe thilke game Til fully fourty dayes were y - past , Than wold sche suffre him to do the same . Al were this Odenake wilde or tame , He gat no more of hir , for thus sche sayde , Hit nas but wyves ...
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... thilke day that sche was last a wif , In paciens ladde a ful symple lyf . For litel was hir catel and hir rent ; For housbondry of such as God hir sent , Sche fond hirself , and eek hir doughtres tuo . Thre large sowes had sche , and no ...
... thilke day that sche was last a wif , In paciens ladde a ful symple lyf . For litel was hir catel and hir rent ; For housbondry of such as God hir sent , Sche fond hirself , and eek hir doughtres tuo . Thre large sowes had sche , and no ...
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... thilke toun ; For whan degrees fyftene were ascendid , Thanne crewe he , it might not ben amendid . His comb was redder than the fyn coral , And batayld , as it were a castel wal . His bile was blak , and as the geet it schon ; Lik asur ...
... thilke toun ; For whan degrees fyftene were ascendid , Thanne crewe he , it might not ben amendid . His comb was redder than the fyn coral , And batayld , as it were a castel wal . His bile was blak , and as the geet it schon ; Lik asur ...
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... the west gate of the toun , ' quod he , ' A cart of donge there schalt thou see , In which my body is hyd prively . Do thilke cart arresten boldely . My gold caused my mourdre , soth to sayn . 46 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... the west gate of the toun , ' quod he , ' A cart of donge there schalt thou see , In which my body is hyd prively . Do thilke cart arresten boldely . My gold caused my mourdre , soth to sayn . 46 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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