Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Volume 26Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1851 - English literature |
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... 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 world had of ...
... 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 world had of ...
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... With his triumphe laurial ful hye . But on a tyme Brutus and Cassius , That ever had to his estat envye , Ful prively hath made conspiracie 16170 16180 Agains this Julius in subtil wise ; And cast the 34 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
... With his triumphe laurial ful hye . But on a tyme Brutus and Cassius , That ever had to his estat envye , Ful prively hath made conspiracie 16170 16180 Agains this Julius in subtil wise ; And cast the 34 THE CANTERBURY TALES .
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... tyme an ey or tweye ; For sche was as it were a maner deye . A yerd sche had , enclosed al aboute With stikkes , and a drye dich withoute , In which sche had a cok , hight Chaunteclere , In al the lond of crowyng was noon his peere ...
... tyme an ey or tweye ; For sche was as it were a maner deye . A yerd sche had , enclosed al aboute With stikkes , and a drye dich withoute , In which sche had a cok , hight Chaunteclere , In al the lond of crowyng was noon his peere ...
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... tyme , as I have understonde , 16340 16350 1.6360 16359 - seven night . I adopt this reading from the Lansd . MS .; the reading of the Harl . MS . seven yer , is certainly wrong . Bestis and briddes cowde speke and synge . And so THE ...
... tyme , as I have understonde , 16340 16350 1.6360 16359 - seven night . I adopt this reading from the Lansd . MS .; the reading of the Harl . MS . seven yer , is certainly wrong . Bestis and briddes cowde speke and synge . And so THE ...
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... tyme yet his felawe 16480 16490 Com , as him thought , and sayd , ' I am now slawe : 16500 Bihold my bloody woundes , deep and wyde . Arise up erly in the morwe tyde , And at the west gate of the toun , ' quod he , ' A cart of donge ...
... tyme yet his felawe 16480 16490 Com , as him thought , and sayd , ' I am now slawe : 16500 Bihold my bloody woundes , deep and wyde . Arise up erly in the morwe tyde , And at the west gate of the toun , ' quod he , ' A cart of donge ...
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