The Squieres Tale. With Life, Grammar, Notes, and an Etymological Glossary

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W.& R. Chambers, 1882 - 80 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 6 - FORGET six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small, and white, and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green...
Strana 57 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Strana 54 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Strana 59 - Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Strana 37 - The knotte, why that every tale is told, If it be taried til that lust be cold Of hem that han it after herkned yore, The savour passeth ever lenger the more, For fulsomnesse of his prolixitee.
Strana 45 - But-if a man be vertuous with-al. I have my sone snibbed, and yet shal, For he to vertu listeth nat entende ; But for to pleye at dees, and to despende, And lese al that he hath, is his usage. And he hath lever talken with a page Than to comune with any gentil wight Ther he mighte lerne gentillesse aright.' Ff 2 ' Straw for your gentillesse...
Strana 2 - And for there is so great diversite In English, and in writing of our tong, So pray I to God, that none miswrite thee, Ne the mis-metre, for defaut of tong : And redd wherso thou be or eles song, That thou be understand,
Strana 49 - I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Strana 58 - The tydy for her notes as delicate as they, The laughing hecco, then the counterfeiting jay. The softer with the shrill (some hid among the leaves, Some in the taller trees, some in the lower greaves) Thus sing away the morn, until the mounting...
Strana 10 - But yt be seldome on the holy day, Save, certeynly, whan that the monethe of May Is comen, and that I here the foules synge, And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge, Farwel my boke, and my devocion,!

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