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... night with open eye , So priketh hem nature in hir corages ; - Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages , And palmeres for to seken strange strondes , To serve halwes couth in sondry londes ; And specially , from every shires ende Of ...
... night with open eye , So priketh hem nature in hir corages ; - Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages , And palmeres for to seken strange strondes , To serve halwes couth in sondry londes ; And specially , from every shires ende Of ...
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... night had many a mery fitte With eche of hem , so wel was him on live . Blessed be God that I have wedded five , Welcome the sixthe whan that ever he shall . For sith I wol not kepe me chaste in all , Whan min husbond is fro the world ...
... night had many a mery fitte With eche of hem , so wel was him on live . Blessed be God that I have wedded five , Welcome the sixthe whan that ever he shall . For sith I wol not kepe me chaste in all , Whan min husbond is fro the world ...
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... night and day For his disport he wolde it rede alway , He cleped it Valerie , and Theophrast , And with that book he lough alway ful fast . And eke ther was a clerk somtime at Rome , A cardinal , that highte Seint Jerome , That made a ...
... night and day For his disport he wolde it rede alway , He cleped it Valerie , and Theophrast , And with that book he lough alway ful fast . And eke ther was a clerk somtime at Rome , A cardinal , that highte Seint Jerome , That made a ...
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... night , While that the corps lay in the flore upright : And som han driven nailes in hir brain , While that they slepe , and thus they han hem slain : Som han hem yeven poison in hir drink : He spake more harm than herte may bethinke ...
... night , While that the corps lay in the flore upright : And som han driven nailes in hir brain , While that they slepe , and thus they han hem slain : Som han hem yeven poison in hir drink : He spake more harm than herte may bethinke ...
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... night - ravens flew , The hateful messengers of heavy things , Of death and dolour telling sad tidings ; While sad Celeno , sitting on a clift , A song of bale and bitter sorrow sings , That heart of flint asunder could have rift ...
... night - ravens flew , The hateful messengers of heavy things , Of death and dolour telling sad tidings ; While sad Celeno , sitting on a clift , A song of bale and bitter sorrow sings , That heart of flint asunder could have rift ...
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