| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1845 - 348 pages
...right ought preferre, Sithe of our langage he was the lode-sterre. In youthe he made a translacion Of a boke whiche called is Trophe In Lumbarde tonge,...se, And in our vulgar, long or that he deyde, Gave it the name of Troylous and Cresseyde. ! Whiche for to rede lovers them delyte, They have therin so... | |
| 1850 - 524 pages
...misprint : corrige — " In youth he made a translation Of a boke, which called is Troyle, In Lumbardes tonge, as men may rede and se, And in our vulgar, long or that he deyde, Gave it the name of Troy lous and Cresseydc." The book called Troyle is Baccaccio's Troilo, or Filostrato.... | |
| 1850 - 544 pages
...us, that " In youth he made a translacion Of « bake which called is '/V ,./„• In I .uiiiii ml.' tonge, as men may rede and se, And in our vulgar, long or that he deyde, Gave it the name of Troylous and Cresseyde." Corinna. — Chaucer says somewhere, " I follow Statius first,... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1866 - 498 pages
...ought preferre, Sithe of our langage he was the lode-sterre. In youthe he made a translacion Of a hoke whiche called is Trophe In Lumbarde tonge, as men may rede and se, And in our vulgar, long or that ye deyde, Gave it the name of Troylous and Cresseyde. Whiche for to rede lovers them delyte, They have... | |
| Henry Morley - 1867 - 488 pages
...on the authority of Lydgate, who was young when Chaucer died,i that " In youth he made a translacion Of a boke whiche called is Trophe * In Lumbarde tonge, as men may rede and se ; And in our vulgar, long er that he deyde, . Gave it the name of Troylus and Crcseyde." i Lydgata'ff Prologue to the ' Fall... | |
| Henry Morley - 1867 - 492 pages
...young when Chaucer died,1 that " In youth he made a translation Of a boke whiche called is Trophe 8 In Lumbarde tonge, as men may rede and se ; And in our vulgar, long er that he deyde, Gave it the name of Troylus and Creseyde." 1 Lydgate's Prologue to the ' Fall of... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1874 - 406 pages
...prologue to his Fall of Princes, st. 41, he says of Chaucer that — 'In youth he made a translacion Of a boke whiche called is Trophe, In Lumbarde tonge, as men may rede and se ; And in our vulgar, long er that he deyde, Gave it the name of Troylus and Creseyde.' This seems to say that Trophe was the... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1880 - 424 pages
...prologue to his Fall of Princes, st. 41, he says of Chaucer that — 'In youth he made a translacion Of a boke whiche called is Trophe, In Lumbarde tonge, as men may rede and sc; And in our vulgar, long er that he deyde, Gave it the name of Troylus and Creseyde.' This seems... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1883 - 418 pages
...right ought preferre, Sithe of our langage he was the lode-sterre. In youthe he made a translacion Of a boke whiche called is Trophe In Lumbarde tonge, as men may rede and set And in our vulgar, long or that ye deyde, Gave it the name of Troylous and Cresseyde. Whiche for... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1883 - 422 pages
...41, he says of Chaucer that — 'In youth he made a translacion Of a boke whiche called is Trophf, In Lumbarde tonge, as men may rede and se; And in our vulgar, long er that he deyde, Gave it the name of Troylus and Creseyde." This seems to say that Trophe was the... | |
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