Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 1Robert Chambers |
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... tell loose tales of successful love and licentious monks while the plague is desolating the country around them . The tales of Chaucer have a more pleasing origin . A com- pany of pilgrims , consisting of twenty - nine ' sundry folk ...
... tell loose tales of successful love and licentious monks while the plague is desolating the country around them . The tales of Chaucer have a more pleasing origin . A com- pany of pilgrims , consisting of twenty - nine ' sundry folk ...
Page 18
... tell , Beside a toun men clepen Baldeswell . Tucked he was , as is a frere , aboute ; And ever he rode the hinderest of the route . A Sompnour was ther with us in that place , That hadde a fire - red cherubinnes face , With scalled ...
... tell , Beside a toun men clepen Baldeswell . Tucked he was , as is a frere , aboute ; And ever he rode the hinderest of the route . A Sompnour was ther with us in that place , That hadde a fire - red cherubinnes face , With scalled ...
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... Tell where he is , or thou shalt it aby , 6 By God and by the holy sacrament , For sothly thou art one of his assent To slay us youngé folk , thou falsé thief . ' ' Now , Sirs , ' quod he , if it be you so lief 7 To finden Death , turn ...
... Tell where he is , or thou shalt it aby , 6 By God and by the holy sacrament , For sothly thou art one of his assent To slay us youngé folk , thou falsé thief . ' ' Now , Sirs , ' quod he , if it be you so lief 7 To finden Death , turn ...
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... tell them thus from me , Their time most happy is , If to their time they reason had , To know the truth of this . The Means to attain Happy Life . Martial , the things that do attain The happy life , be these , I find , The riches left ...
... tell them thus from me , Their time most happy is , If to their time they reason had , To know the truth of this . The Means to attain Happy Life . Martial , the things that do attain The happy life , be these , I find , The riches left ...
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... tell you a story which hap- pened at Cambridge . Master Bilney , or rather Saint Bilney , that suffered death for God's word's sake , the same Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge , for I may thank him , next to ...
... tell you a story which hap- pened at Cambridge . Master Bilney , or rather Saint Bilney , that suffered death for God's word's sake , the same Bilney was the instrument whereby God called me to knowledge , for I may thank him , next to ...
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