The Influence of Statius Upon ChaucerJ. H. Furst, 1911 - 144 pages |
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Page 139 - 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 107 - And after this, Theseus hath y-sent After a bere, and it al over-spradde With cloth of gold, the richest that he hadde. And of the same suyte he cladde Arcite; Upon his hondes hadde he gloves whyte; Eek on his heed a croune of laurer. grene, And in his hond a swerd ful bright and kene
Page 81 - 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 blake; But swich a cry and
Page 88 - 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 92 - as wel eek telle you al The portreiture, that was up-on the wal With-inne the temple of mighty Mars the rede"! Al peynted was the wal, in lengthe and brede, Lyk to the estrés of the grisly place, That highte the grete temple of Mars in Trace, In thilke
Page 106 - 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 5 - 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
Page 131 - 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 84 - that his herte wolde breke, 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
Page 81 - 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?