The Riches of Chaucer: In which His Impurities Have Been Expunged; His Spelling Modernised; His Rhythm Accentuated ... Also Have Been Added a Few Explanatory Notes and a New Memoir of the PoetC. Lockwood & Company, 1870 - 626 Seiten |
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Seite 236 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Seite 2 - And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Seite 607 - The wrestling of this world asketh a fall ; Here is no home, here is but wilderness ; Forth, pilgrim, forth, O beast out of thy stall; Look up on high, and thank thy God of all ; Waiveth thy lust and let thy ghost thee lead, And truth thee shall deliver 'tis no drede.
Seite 68 - Embrouded was he, as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe floures, whyte and rede. 90 Singinge he was, or floytinge, al the day ; He was as fresh as is the month of May.
Seite 79 - Full loth were him to cursen for his tithes; But rather would he given out of doubt Unto his poor parishens about Of his off ring, and eke of his substance ; He could in little thing have suffisance: Wide was his parish, and houses far asunder, But he ne left nought for no rain nor thunder, In sickness and in mischief, to visit The farthest in his parish much and lite, Upon his feet, and in his hand a staff: This noble 'nsaraple to his sheep he gaf.
Seite 79 - That first he wrought, and afterward he taught. Out of the gospel he the wordes caught, And this figure he added yet therto, That if gold ruste, what shuld iren do?
Seite 137 - What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.
Seite 66 - And specially from every shire's end Of Engeland to Canterbury they wend, The holy blissful martyr for to seek That them hath holpen when that they were sick.
Seite 87 - Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse as neighe as ever he can : Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he, never so rudely and so large : Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe : He may not spare, although he were his brother, He moste as wel sayn o word as an other.
Seite 509 - Maker of all things, and truth's sovereign, Where is the truth of man, who hath it slain, That she who loveth him should find him fast As in a tempest is a rotten mast?