The Book of the Tales of Caunterbury: PrologWeidmann, 1882 - 32 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13 - Noght o word spak he more than was neede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, 305 And short and quyk, and ful of hy sentence. Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche; And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
Pàgina 20 - Up-on his feet, and in his hand a staf. This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf, That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte ; Out of the gospel he tho...
Pàgina 9 - The reule of seint Maure or of seint Beneit, By-cause that it was old and som-del streit,— This ilke Monk leet olde thynges pace, And heeld after the newe world the space.
Pàgina 8 - For, hardily, she was nat undergrowe. Ful fetis was hir cloke, as I was war. Of smal coral aboute hir arm she bar A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene; And ther-on heng a broche of gold ful shene, On which ther was first write a crowned A, And after, Amor vincit omnia.
Pàgina 20 - Or with a bretherhed to been withholde; But dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his folde, So that the wolf ne made it nat myscarie; He was a shepherde and noght a mercenarie. And though he hooly were and vertuous, He was to synful men nat despitous, Ne of his speche daungerous ne digne, But in his techyng discreet and benygne.
Pàgina 8 - A manly man, to been an abbot able. Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable, And whan he rood, men myghte his brydel heere Gynglen in a whistlynge wynd als cleere And eek as loude as dooth the chapel belle. Ther as this lord was kepere of the celle...
Pàgina 3 - Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Pàgina 9 - Was al his lust, for no cost wolde he spare. I seigh his sleves purfiled at the hond With grys, and that the fyneste of a lond...
Pàgina 19 - A good man was ther of religioun, And was a poure PERSOUN of a toun, But riche he was of hooly thoght and werk.
Pàgina 5 - With lokkes crulle, as they were leyd in presse. Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse. Of his stature he was of evene lengthe, And wonderly deliver, and greet of strengthe.