Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... pretiumque rursus Ultimi cœlum meruit laboris . I restore the names from the Lansdowne MS . , as they are very in- correctly written in the Harl . MS . For in his tyme of strength he bar the flour 10 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... pretiumque rursus Ultimi cœlum meruit laboris . I restore the names from the Lansdowne MS . , as they are very in- correctly written in the Harl . MS . For in his tyme of strength he bar the flour 10 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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Percy Society. For in his tyme of strength he bar the flour . He slough and rafte the skyn fro the leoun ; He of Centaures layde the bost adoun ; He Arpies slough , the cruel briddes felle ; The gold appul he raft fro the dragoun ; He ...
Percy Society. For in his tyme of strength he bar the flour . He slough and rafte the skyn fro the leoun ; He of Centaures layde the bost adoun ; He Arpies slough , the cruel briddes felle ; The gold appul he raft fro the dragoun ; He ...
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... tyme was i - come aboute . And lik an eglis fetheres were his heres , His hondes like a briddes clowes were , Til God relessed him a certeyn yeres , And gaf him witte , and thanne with many a tere He thanked God , and ever he is afere ...
... tyme was i - come aboute . And lik an eglis fetheres were his heres , His hondes like a briddes clowes were , Til God relessed him a certeyn yeres , And gaf him witte , and thanne with many a tere He thanked God , and ever he is afere ...
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... tyme he nolde it never se . Nettis of gold thred had he gret plenté , To fissche in Tyber , whan him lust to pleye . His willes were as lawe in his degré , For fortune as his frend wold him obeye . He Rome brent for his delicacie ; The ...
... tyme he nolde it never se . Nettis of gold thred had he gret plenté , To fissche in Tyber , whan him lust to pleye . His willes were as lawe in his degré , For fortune as his frend wold him obeye . He Rome brent for his delicacie ; The ...
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... tyme , but if bokes lye . And whil his maister had of him maistrie , He made him so connyng and so souple , That long tyme it was or tyrannye Or ony vice dorst on him uncouple . This Seneca , of which that I devyse , Bycause Nero had of ...
... tyme , but if bokes lye . And whil his maister had of him maistrie , He made him so connyng and so souple , That long tyme it was or tyrannye Or ony vice dorst on him uncouple . This Seneca , of which that I devyse , Bycause Nero had of ...
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