Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices, |
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... side a gaie daggère , Harneised wel , and sharpe as point of spere : A Cristofre on his brest of silver shene . An horne he bare , the baudrik was of grene , A forster was he sothely as I gesse . Ther was also a Nonne , a Prioresse ...
... side a gaie daggère , Harneised wel , and sharpe as point of spere : A Cristofre on his brest of silver shene . An horne he bare , the baudrik was of grene , A forster was he sothely as I gesse . Ther was also a Nonne , a Prioresse ...
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... side . His mouth as widè was as a forneis . He was a jangler , ( ƒ ) and a goliardeis , ( g ) And that was most of sinne , and harlotries . Wel coude he stelen corne , and tollen thries . And yet he had a thomb ( h ) of gold parde . ( i ) ...
... side . His mouth as widè was as a forneis . He was a jangler , ( ƒ ) and a goliardeis , ( g ) And that was most of sinne , and harlotries . Wel coude he stelen corne , and tollen thries . And yet he had a thomb ( h ) of gold parde . ( i ) ...
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... side he bare a rusty blade . Of Norfolk was this reve , of which I 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 ...
... side he bare a rusty blade . Of Norfolk was this reve , of which I 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 ...
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... side the egè raise on hicht : ( 7 ) The bank was grene , the son was ful of bemis , The streimeirs cleir as starres in frostie nicht . ( a ) Curtains . ( b ) The pearled drops fell from the ( d ) Knobs ; trees like silver showers . ( e ) ...
... side the egè raise on hicht : ( 7 ) The bank was grene , the son was ful of bemis , The streimeirs cleir as starres in frostie nicht . ( a ) Curtains . ( b ) The pearled drops fell from the ( d ) Knobs ; trees like silver showers . ( e ) ...
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... side of humanity . His satires and invective , with all their defilements , are more agreeable than his ele- giac strains . He denounces the syde taillis of the women with much more gusto than he laments the early death of Queen ...
... side of humanity . His satires and invective , with all their defilements , are more agreeable than his ele- giac strains . He denounces the syde taillis of the women with much more gusto than he laments the early death of Queen ...
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