The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene; with Other Poems of Chaucer and SpenserWilliam P. Nimmo, 1870 - 624 pages |
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... wife . I am , thou wost , 20 yet of thy company , A maid , and love hunting and venery , 2 22 And for to walken in the woodes wild , And not to be a wife , and be with child . Nought will I know the company of man . Now help me , lady ...
... wife . I am , thou wost , 20 yet of thy company , A maid , and love hunting and venery , 2 22 And for to walken in the woodes wild , And not to be a wife , and be with child . Nought will I know the company of man . Now help me , lady ...
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... wife ! Mine heartë's lady , ender of my life ! What is this world ? what askë men to have ? Now with his love , now in his colde grave Alone , withouten any company . Farewell , my sweet , farewell , mine Emily , And softly take me in ...
... wife ! Mine heartë's lady , ender of my life ! What is this world ? what askë men to have ? Now with his love , now in his colde grave Alone , withouten any company . Farewell , my sweet , farewell , mine Emily , And softly take me in ...
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... wife , he is no cuckold . But I say not therefore that thou art one ; There be full goodë wivës many one . Why art thou angry with my tale now ? I have a wife , pardie , as well as thou , Yet n'old 22 I , for the oxen in my plough ...
... wife , he is no cuckold . But I say not therefore that thou art one ; There be full goodë wivës many one . Why art thou angry with my tale now ? I have a wife , pardie , as well as thou , Yet n'old 22 I , for the oxen in my plough ...
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... wife , Which that he loved more than his life : Of eighteen year , I guess , she was of age . Jealous he was , and held her narr'w in cage , For she was wild and young , and he was old , And deemed himself bélike 14 a cuckold . He knew ...
... wife , Which that he loved more than his life : Of eighteen year , I guess , she was of age . Jealous he was , and held her narr'w in cage , For she was wild and young , and he was old , And deemed himself bélike 14 a cuckold . He knew ...
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... wives of the parish fast ; And many a lovely look he on them cast , And namely 25 on this carpénter's wife : To look on her him thought a merry life . She was so proper , and sweet , and likerous . I dare well say , if she had been a ...
... wives of the parish fast ; And many a lovely look he on them cast , And namely 25 on this carpénter's wife : To look on her him thought a merry life . She was so proper , and sweet , and likerous . I dare well say , if she had been a ...
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adown Anglo-Saxon anon Archimago Artegall beast bliss blood Britomart brought Canterbury Tales CANTO certes Chaucer counsel Court of Love Cressida cruel Dame daughter dear death doth dread Elfin Knight ev'ry evermore eyen eyes Faerie Queen Faery fair false farforth fast fear Florimell flow'r foul gentle Godde's gold goodly grace Grantorto Guyon hand hast hath heard heart heav'nly heaven hight honour House of Fame king knight Knight's Tale lady living lord lovers mannére mighty naught never nigh noble pain Pandarus pity poet pray Prince Queen quoth saidë saith sayn seem'd shalt shame shield shouldë sight slain soon sore sorrow spake Spenser sweet tale Talus tell thee Therewith Theseus thine thing thou thought Troilus Troilus and Cressida unto Venus ween wife wight wise withoutë wont word wouldë
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Page 406 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall; The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call: The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Page 388 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love, and nothing for reward. O ! why should heavenly God to men have such regard ? The Faerie Queen, Book II.
Page 311 - Dwarfe did lag, That lasie seemd, in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
Page 320 - The lion would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong guard Of her chaste person, and a faithful mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard ; Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward ; And, when she wak'd he waited diligent, With humble service to her will prepar'd : From her fair eyes he took commandement, And ever by her looks conceived her intent.
Page 305 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Page 311 - Upon a great adventure he was bound, That greatest Gloriana to him gave, (That greatest glorious queen of fairy lond,) To win him worship, and her grace to have, Which of all earthly things he most did crave...
Page 44 - What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.
Page 403 - Guyons senses softly tickeled, That he the boteman bad row easily, And let him heare some part of their rare melody.
Page 425 - To see so faire things mard, and spoyled quight : And their great mother Venus did lament The losse of her deare brood, her deare delight : Her hart was pierst with...
Page 295 - At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, An house of ancient fame. There when they came, whereas those bricky towers The which on Thames...