The Influence of Statius Upon Chaucer, Volume 194J. H. Furst, 1911 - 144 pages |
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Page 79 - This duk, of whom I make mencioun, When he was come almost unto the toun, In al his wele and in his moste pryde, He was war, as he caste his eye asyde, Wher that ther kneled in the hye weye A companye of ladies, tweye and tweye, Ech after other, clad in clothes
Page 133 - trasse Roma, Dove mertai le tempie ornar di mirto. Stazio la gente ancor di la mi noma: Cantai di Tebe e poi del grande Achille. Ma caddi in via con la seconda soma
Page 86 - A worthy duk that highte Perotheus, That felawe was un-to duk Theseus Sin thilke day that they were children lyte, Was come to Athènes, his felawe to visyte, And for to pleye, as he was wont to do, For in this world he loved no man so: And he loved him as tendrely ageyn. So wel they loved, as olde
Page 3 - And of his song nought only the sentence, As writ myn autour called Lollius But pleynly, save our tonges difference, I dar wel sayn, in al that Troilus Seyde in his song; lo! every word right thus As I shal seyn; and who-so list it here, Lo! next this vers, he may it finden here.
Page 108 - But how the fyr was maked up on highte, And eek the names how the trees highte, As ook, firre, birch, asp, alder, holm, popler, Wilow, elm, plane, ash, box, chasteyn, lind, laurer, Mapul, thorn, beech, hasel, ew, whippeltree, How they weren feld, shal nat be told for me
Page 104 - Right as ther deyed never man ' quod he, ' That he ne livede in erthe in som degree, Right so ther livede never man,' he seyde, 'In al this world, that som tyme he ne deyde. This world nis but a thurghfare ful of wo.'
Page 125 - Whan he saugh hem so pitous and so mat, That whylom weren of so greet estât. And in his armes he hem alle up hente, And hem conforteth in ful good entente; And swoor his ooth, as he was trewe knight,
Page 79 - have ye so greet envye Of myn honour, that thus compleyne and crye? Or who hath yow misboden, or offended? And telleth me if it may been amended; And why that ye ben clothed thus in blak?
Page 71 - Be favorable eek, thou Polymnia, On Parnaso that, with thy sustres glade, By Elicon, not fer from Cirrea, Singest with vois memorial in the shade. Under the laurer which that may not fade, And do that I my ship to haven winne