Bell's Edition, Volúmenes1-2J. Bell, 1782 |
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Página xix
... granted him an annuity of twenty marks per annum out of the Exchequer . How mean foever fuch a pension may seem now it was then very confiderable , and in Chaucer's cafe was still the more valuable as being an earnest of future favours ...
... granted him an annuity of twenty marks per annum out of the Exchequer . How mean foever fuch a pension may seem now it was then very confiderable , and in Chaucer's cafe was still the more valuable as being an earnest of future favours ...
Página xx
... granted him a pitcher of wine daily in the Port of London , to be de- livered by the Butler of England ; and very foon after he was made Comptroller of the Customs in the Port of London for wool , wool - fells , and hides , with a ...
... granted him a pitcher of wine daily in the Port of London , to be de- livered by the Butler of England ; and very foon after he was made Comptroller of the Customs in the Port of London for wool , wool - fells , and hides , with a ...
Página xxxii
... granted in his non- age to the daughter of Sir Bartholomew Burgherthe before- mentioned . A great fortune fhe was without doubt , but not the only daughter or fole heiress of her family , as has been re- prefented , or at leaft not fo ...
... granted in his non- age to the daughter of Sir Bartholomew Burgherthe before- mentioned . A great fortune fhe was without doubt , but not the only daughter or fole heiress of her family , as has been re- prefented , or at leaft not fo ...
Página xxxvi
... granted ; and all this was then underfood to be done in fpite and contempt of the Duke of Lancafter , to whom Comberton fteadily adhered , and ealled him bis Lord at his trial . But for all this things came about again not long after ...
... granted ; and all this was then underfood to be done in fpite and contempt of the Duke of Lancafter , to whom Comberton fteadily adhered , and ealled him bis Lord at his trial . But for all this things came about again not long after ...
Página xl
... granted , & c . " But no doubt the true reafon was for his special affection towards her on account of the children he had had by her , to whom he gave the name of Beaufort , in La- tin de bello forte , from a castle so called in Anjou ...
... granted , & c . " But no doubt the true reafon was for his special affection towards her on account of the children he had had by her , to whom he gave the name of Beaufort , in La- tin de bello forte , from a castle so called in Anjou ...
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alfo alſo anon Arcite Author becauſe beft beſt Boccace Canterbury Canterbury Tales Chaucer cofin coude Crift Cuftance Decameron doun Du Cange Duke edition Emelie English faid fame fayd fayre fays fecond feems feen fenfe fent feveral fhal fhall fhuld fignify firft firſt flain fome French French language ftill fuch fuppofe fwiche fyllables GEOFFREY CHAUCER goth gret grete hath herte himſelf hire honour King knight laft language Layamon litel Lord metre moft moſt obferve Ormulum paffage Palamon perfon Petrarch Plowman's Tale poem poet prefent probably Prologue quod reafon rhyme Robert of Brunne Roman de Rou Saxon ſay ſeems Seint ſhe ſpeaks Tale tellen Thebes thee thefe Thefeida ther theſe thofe Thomas Chaucer thoſe thou thould tranflated trewe unto uſed verfe verſe whan wife withouten wold word
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Página xxv - We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace...
Página ccxxxvi - A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, That unto logik hadde longe y-go. As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he nas nat right fat, I undertake, But loked holwe, and ther-to soberly.
Página ccxix - A KNIGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To ryden out, he loved chivalrye, Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye.
Página 3 - The yelding of his seed, and of his grain. His lordes shepe, his nete, and his deirie, His swine, his hors, his store, and his pultrie, Were holly in this reves governing, And by his covenant yave he rekening, Sin that his lord was twenty yere of age; Ther coude no man bring him in arerage. Ther n'as baillif, ne herde, ne other hine, That he ne knew his sleight and his covine: They were adradde of him, as of the deth. His wonning was ful fayre upon an heth, With grene trees yshadewed was his place.
Página cclii - The MILLER was a stout carl for the nones, Ful bigge he was of braun, and eke of bones; That proved wel, for over all ther he came, At wrastling he wold bere away the ram. He was short shuldered brode, a thikke gnarre, Ther n'as no dore, that he n'olde heve of barre, Or breke it at a renning with his hede.
Página 28 - For which thou art ybounden as a knight To helpen me, if it lie in thy might, Or elles art thou false I dare well say'n.
Página 54 - And they him sware his axing fayr and wel, And him of lordship and of mercie praid, And he hem granted grace, and thus he said : To speke of real linage and richesse, Though that she were a quene or a...
Página 5 - Than wolde he speke, and crie as he were wood. And whan that he wel dronken had the win, Than wold he speken no word but Latin.
Página ccxxxvi - Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Página 42 - Theseus, his squyer principal, 640 is risen, and loketh on the myrie day. And, for to doon his observaunce to May, Remembring on the poynt of his desyr, He on a courser...