Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... werkes laude and heigh renoun ; 15570 15580 15581 - Of Ercules . The account of the labours of Hercules is almost literally translated from Boethius , De Consol . Philos . , lib . iv , metr . 7 , though he has changed the order of some ...
... werkes laude and heigh renoun ; 15570 15580 15581 - Of Ercules . The account of the labours of Hercules is almost literally translated from Boethius , De Consol . Philos . , lib . iv , metr . 7 , though he has changed the order of some ...
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... werkes , or elles his repentaunce may nought avayle . For , as saith seint Isidor , he is a japere and a gabbere , and no verray repentaunt , that eftsoone doth thing for which him oughte to repente . Wepynge , and nought for to stynte ...
... werkes , or elles his repentaunce may nought avayle . For , as saith seint Isidor , he is a japere and a gabbere , and no verray repentaunt , that eftsoone doth thing for which him oughte to repente . Wepynge , and nought for to stynte ...
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... werkes worthy of confessioun . And therfor saith Ezechiel , I wol remembre alle the yeres of my lif , in bitternesse of myn herte . And God saith in thapo- calips , remembre yow from whens that ye ben falle , for biforn that tyme that ...
... werkes worthy of confessioun . And therfor saith Ezechiel , I wol remembre alle the yeres of my lif , in bitternesse of myn herte . And God saith in thapo- calips , remembre yow from whens that ye ben falle , for biforn that tyme that ...
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... werkes schul ' be openly knowen . And , as seint Bernard saith , ther schal no pleynyng avayle , ne no sleight ; we schuln give rekenyng of every ydel word . Ther schulle we have a juge that may nought be disceyved ne cor- rupt ; and ...
... werkes schul ' be openly knowen . And , as seint Bernard saith , ther schal no pleynyng avayle , ne no sleight ; we schuln give rekenyng of every ydel word . Ther schulle we have a juge that may nought be disceyved ne cor- rupt ; and ...
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... werkes that he hath left , eyther thay been the goode werkes that he wrought er he fel into deedly synne , or elles thai ben the goode werkes that he wroughte whil he lay in synne . Sothly the goode werkes that he dede er he fel into ...
... werkes that he hath left , eyther thay been the goode werkes that he wrought er he fel into deedly synne , or elles thai ben the goode werkes that he wroughte whil he lay in synne . Sothly the goode werkes that he dede er he fel into ...
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