The Cambridge History of English LiteratureSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller G.P. Putnam's sons, 1908 - Literary Criticism |
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allegory alliterative Arthur ballad Barbour bishop C. S. Series Cambridge Canterbury Canterbury Tales Caxton chap chapter Chaucer Chaucerian Chronicle church Confessio Amantis contemporary copies couplet court death dialect Do-better Do-well Douglas Dunbar earlier early edition England English evidence fifteenth century fourteenth century French friars Gavin Douglas Gower Hampole Hawes Henry House of Fame Huchoun interest John king Kingis Quair knight lady language later Latin lines literary literature Lollards Lydgate Lydgate's medieval metre Middle Scots original Oxford passages Passetyme passus Pecock Peterhouse pieces Piers the Plowman poem poet poetical poetry popular printed probably prologue prose Richard Richard Rolle rime royal Rolls Series romance scholars Scotland Scottish Scripture Skeat songs stanza story style Tale translation Trevisa Troilus Troilus and Criseyde verse vision vols writers written Wyclif Wynkyn de Worde Wyntoun þat
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Page 233 - The general end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline...
Page 257 - Timor mortis conturbat me. He takis the campion in the stour, The capitane closit in the tour, The lady in bour full of bewte ; Timor mortis conturbat me.
Page 391 - I have a gentil cook, Comyn he is of gret; His comb is of reed corel, His tayil is of get. I...
Page 248 - That al be that Criseyde was untrewe, That for that gilt she be not wrooth with me. Ye may hir gilt in othere bokes see ; And gladlier I wol wryten, if yow leste, Penelopees trouthe and good Alceste.
Page 455 - In this Impression you shall find these Additions. 1 His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2 His Life collected. 3 Arguments to euery Booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two Bookes of his, neuer before Printed.
Page 303 - I tryst sone aftyr to se yow. And now farewell, myn owne fayir lady, and God geve yow good rest, for in feythe I trow ye be in bed. Wretyn in my wey homward on Mary Maudeleyn Day at mydnyght. Your owne, JOHN PASTON. Mastresse Annes, I am prowd that ye can reed Inglyshe ; wherfor I prey yow aqweynt yow with thys my lewd...
Page 404 - It's whether will ye be a rank robber's wife, Or will ye die by my wee pen-knife ? ' ' It's I'll not be a rank robber's wife, But I'll rather die by your wee pen-knife.
Page 433 - The Vision of Pierce Plowman, newlye imprynted after the authours olde copy, with a brefe summary of the principall matters set before euery part called Passus.
Page 393 - Talbot my hounde with a mery taste All about the grene wode he gan cast. I toke my home and blew him a blast, : With ' Tro-ro-ro-ro, tro-ro-ro-ro ! ' With ' Hey go bet, hey go bet, hey go howe ! There he gothe, there he gothe, hey go howe ! We shall have sport and game enowe...
Page 455 - Chaucer, newly Printed. To that which was done in the former Impression, thus much is now added. 1 In the life of Chaucer many things inserted. 2 The whole worke by old Copies reformed. 3 Sentences and Prouerbes noted.