Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: Ed. from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications ...Percy society, 1965 - English literature |
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... gret disease , Wher as men han ben in gret welthe and ease , To hieren of her sodeyn fal , allas ! 16247 - Tregedis . These two lines are given differently in Tyrwhitt , and perhaps better , as follows : - " Tragedie is non other maner ...
... gret disease , Wher as men han ben in gret welthe and ease , To hieren of her sodeyn fal , allas ! 16247 - Tregedis . These two lines are given differently in Tyrwhitt , and perhaps better , as follows : - " Tragedie is non other maner ...
Page 110
... gret . And herken this ensample ; a greet wawe of the see cometh som tyme with so gret a violence , that it drenchith the schip ; and the same harm doon som tyme smale droppis of watir , that entrith thurgh a litil creves into the ...
... gret . And herken this ensample ; a greet wawe of the see cometh som tyme with so gret a violence , that it drenchith the schip ; and the same harm doon som tyme smale droppis of watir , that entrith thurgh a litil creves into the ...
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... gret peril and gret synne . Let us thanne speke of chydynge and reproche , whiche that ben ful grete woundes in mannes hert , for they unsewe the semes of frendschipe in mannes herte ; for certis , unnethe may a man plainly ben accordid ...
... gret peril and gret synne . Let us thanne speke of chydynge and reproche , whiche that ben ful grete woundes in mannes hert , for they unsewe the semes of frendschipe in mannes herte ; for certis , unnethe may a man plainly ben accordid ...
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