Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... thing As in his tyme , ne gretter of renoun , Ne more pompous in heih presumpcioun , Than Oliphern , which that fortune ay kist So licorously , and ladde him up and doun , Til that his heed was of , er he it wist . Nought oonly that the ...
... thing As in his tyme , ne gretter of renoun , Ne more pompous in heih presumpcioun , Than Oliphern , which that fortune ay kist So licorously , and ladde him up and doun , Til that his heed was of , er he it wist . Nought oonly that the ...
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... other conquerour ; For al this world for drede of him hath quaked . He was of knyghthod and of fredam flour ; Fortune him made the heir of hir honour ; 16120 Save wyn and wymmen , no thing might aswage His 32 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... other conquerour ; For al this world for drede of him hath quaked . He was of knyghthod and of fredam flour ; Fortune him made the heir of hir honour ; 16120 Save wyn and wymmen , no thing might aswage His 32 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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... thing , Ne can in singing crien ne bewaile " . And he observes , " This reflection seems to have been suggested by one which follows soon after the mention of Croesus in the passage just cited from Boethius . ' What other thing bewaylen ...
... thing , Ne can in singing crien ne bewaile " . And he observes , " This reflection seems to have been suggested by one which follows soon after the mention of Croesus in the passage just cited from Boethius . ' What other thing bewaylen ...
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... thing is gladsom , and it thinkith me , And of such thing were goodly for to telle . " " Ye , " quod oure host , " by seint Paules belle , Ye say right soth ; this monk hath clappid lowde ; He spak , how fortune was clipped with a ...
... thing is gladsom , and it thinkith me , And of such thing were goodly for to telle . " " Ye , " quod oure host , " by seint Paules belle , Ye say right soth ; this monk hath clappid lowde ; He spak , how fortune was clipped with a ...
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... thing schal wel reported be . Sir , say somwhat of huntyng , I yow pray . " " Nay , " quod the monk , " I have no lust to play ; Now let another telle , as I have told . " Then spak our ost with rude speche and bold , And said unto the ...
... thing schal wel reported be . Sir , say somwhat of huntyng , I yow pray . " " Nay , " quod the monk , " I have no lust to play ; Now let another telle , as I have told . " Then spak our ost with rude speche and bold , And said unto the ...
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