The History of England: The history of England: middle ages. In five volumesLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1830 |
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Page 359 - And sikerly she was of greet desport, And ful plesaunt and amyable of port, And peyned hire to countrefete cheere Of Court, and been estatlich of manere, And to ben holden digne of reverence. But for to speken of hire conscience, She was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. Of smale houndes hadde she that she fedde With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel breed; But soore wepte she if oon of hem were deed, Or if men smoot...
Page 361 - And fresher than the May with floures newe, (For with the rose colour strof hire hewe ; I n'ot which was the finer of hem two) Er it was day, as she was wont to do, She was arisen, and all redy dight.
Page 55 - Per me si va nella città dolente; per me si va nell' eterno dolore; per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Page 358 - Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, That of hire smiling was ful simple and coy ; Hire gretest othe n'as but by Seint Eloy ; And she was cleped madame Eglentine. Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely ; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford-atte-bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe.
Page 20 - Where is the difficulty in conceiving, that the same powers or principles, whatever they were, which formed this visible world, men and animals, produced also a species of intelligent creatures, of more refined substance and greater authority than the rest ? That these creatures may be capricious, revengeful, passionate, voluptuous, is easily conceived ; nor is any circumstance more apt, among ourselves, to engender such vices, than the licence of absolute authority.
Page 358 - And he was cladde in cote and hode of grene. A shefe of peacock arwes bright and kene Under his belt he bare ful thriftily. Wel coude he dresse his takel yemanly: His arwes drouped not with fetheres lowe. And in his bond he bare a mighty bowe. A not-hed hadde he, with a broune visage. Of wood-craft coude he wel alle the usage. Upon his arme he bare a gaie bracer...
Page 446 - And for als moche as it is longe tyme passed, that ther was no generalle Passage ne Vyage over the See ; and many Men desiren for to here speke of the holy Lond, and han...
Page 165 - Wel coude he rede a lessoun or a storie, But alderbest he song an offertorie; For wel he wiste, whan that song was songe, He moste preche, and wel affyle his tonge, To winne silver, as he ful wel coude; Therefore he song so meriely and loude.
Page 361 - And in the grove, at time and place ysette, This Arcite and this Palamon ben mette. Tho changen gan the colour of hir face. Right as the hunter in the regne of Trace That stondeth at a gappe with a spere, Whan hunted is the lion or the...
Page 458 - I satysfye euery man, and so to doo toke an olde boke and redde therin, and certaynly the Englysshe was so rude and brood that I coude not wele vnderstande it.