Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 |
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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 ...
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... 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 lief7 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 lief7 To finden Death , turn ...
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... tell you a thing sickerly , That yon men will all win or die ; For doubt of deid9 they sall not flee . ' ' Now be it sae then ! ' said the king . And then , but langer delaying , They gart trump till the assembly . On either side men ...
... tell you a thing sickerly , That yon men will all win or die ; For doubt of deid9 they sall not flee . ' ' Now be it sae then ! ' said the king . And then , but langer delaying , They gart trump till the assembly . On either side men ...
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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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