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WAILOM , as olde stories tellen us , Ther was a duk that highte Theseus . Of
Athenes he was lord and ... This story is taken from the Theseida of Boccacio ,
which was translated also into French verse ; but whether Chaucer used the
Italian or ...
WAILOM , as olde stories tellen us , Ther was a duk that highte Theseus . Of
Athenes he was lord and ... This story is taken from the Theseida of Boccacio ,
which was translated also into French verse ; but whether Chaucer used the
Italian or ...
Page 156
This was a very popular story in the middle ages , and is found under several
different forms It occurs frequently in the jest and story books of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries . Boccacio has given it in the Decameron , evidently from a
...
This was a very popular story in the middle ages , and is found under several
different forms It occurs frequently in the jest and story books of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries . Boccacio has given it in the Decameron , evidently from a
...
Page 204
4498 . — Canace . This and the story of Apollonius of Tyre are told in Gower ' s
Confessio Amantis , whence it has been supposed that Chaucer intended here to
blame that writer - a notion for which there appears to be no good foundation .
4498 . — Canace . This and the story of Apollonius of Tyre are told in Gower ' s
Confessio Amantis , whence it has been supposed that Chaucer intended here to
blame that writer - a notion for which there appears to be no good foundation .
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| Title | Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: Ed. from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications ... Volume 24 of Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: Ed. from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Percy society |
| Author | Percy society |
| Publisher | Percy society, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
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