Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 12Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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Percy Society. § IV . Some critics of Reynard , acting upon that wise and ancient law of tale - tellers , " Initiamus ab initio , " have endeavoured to discover the precise moment when the events recorded by the historians of Reynard are ...
Percy Society. § IV . Some critics of Reynard , acting upon that wise and ancient law of tale - tellers , " Initiamus ab initio , " have endeavoured to discover the precise moment when the events recorded by the historians of Reynard are ...
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Percy Society. Trouveur now extant on the subject ; older than the lost Norman - French poems of this cyclus , however , they can scarcely be . For instance , our own monarch , Richard Coeur - de- Lion , in a Sirvente , which must have ...
Percy Society. Trouveur now extant on the subject ; older than the lost Norman - French poems of this cyclus , however , they can scarcely be . For instance , our own monarch , Richard Coeur - de- Lion , in a Sirvente , which must have ...
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Percy Society. § v . But the earliest testimony to the existence of popular stories in which the fox and the wolf exhibit those peculiar traits by which they are characterized in the Reynardine fables , afforded by the Abbot Guibert de ...
Percy Society. § v . But the earliest testimony to the existence of popular stories in which the fox and the wolf exhibit those peculiar traits by which they are characterized in the Reynardine fables , afforded by the Abbot Guibert de ...
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Percy Society. vasculo capillis detrahitur . " In this remarkable passage , obscure as it is towards the conclusion , in which we should probably read Renardus instead of Renulfus , we see that in 1112 this fable was so well known , that ...
Percy Society. vasculo capillis detrahitur . " In this remarkable passage , obscure as it is towards the conclusion , in which we should probably read Renardus instead of Renulfus , we see that in 1112 this fable was so well known , that ...
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Percy Society. informs us , that pilgrimages to Our Lady of Hulsterloo , were frequent in the middle ages ; for in that place the pilgrims offered their devotions to a miraculous image , which , according to a note to the unpublished ...
Percy Society. informs us , that pilgrimages to Our Lady of Hulsterloo , were frequent in the middle ages ; for in that place the pilgrims offered their devotions to a miraculous image , which , according to a note to the unpublished ...
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aferd agayn Anglo-Saxon ayenst beestis Bellyn Bruyn the bere brynge CAPITULO catte Caxton chyldren comen complayned cosyn coude counseyl court dame dayes deth drede dyde edition euyl eyen fable fatte fayn fayr felde Flemish fore frendes fynde grete Grimm Grymbert gydre gyue hath haue heed herde herte Ibid Isengrim kynge Kywart laye lignage lord the kyng Low German lyke Maleperduys maye moche myght neuer neuew nyght ouer Piers Ploughman poem praye preest quene rede Reinaert Reineke Reynard the Fox Reynardine Reynart sawe sayde saye sette shold shold haue sore sorowe spack stode subtyl suffre theef thenne ther therfore therin therof theyr thise thou thyng thynke tresour trespaced trouthe Tybert tyme vpon wente whan wold haue wolf wordes worship wulf wylle wyse wyste wyth wythout ye haue ye shal yf ye Ysegrym Zwentibold