...Geoffrey Chaucers kleinere dichtungen: nebst einleitung, lesarten, anmerkungen und einem wörterverzeichnisC. Winter, 1928 - 260 Seiten |
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Seite 116 - Hyt wexeth lyk the same wight Which that the word in erthe spak, Be hyt clothed red or blak; And hath so verray hys lyknesse That spak the word, that thou wilt gesse 1080 That it the same body be, Man or woman, he or she. And ys not this a wonder thyng?
Seite 141 - That tellen of these olde appreved stories Of holynesse, of regnes, of victories, Of love, of hate, of other sondry thynges, Of whiche I may not maken rehersynges. And yf that olde bokes were aweye, Yloren were of remembraunce the keye.
Seite 43 - Chaucer's ABC called La Priere de Nostre Dame : made, as some say, at the Request of Blanch, Duchesse of Lancaster, as a praier for her priuat vse, being a woman in her religion very deuout.
Seite 84 - Theschewing is only the remedye.' 140 Thise vers of gold and blak y-writen were, The whiche I gan a stounde to beholde, For with that oon encresed ay my fere, And with that other gan myn herte bolde ; That oon me hette, that other...
Seite 84 - Thorgh me men gon into that blysful place Of hertes hele and dedly woundes cure; Thorgh me men gon unto the welle of grace, There grene and lusty May shal evere endure. This is the wey to al good aventure. Be glad, thow redere, and thy sorwe of-caste; Al open am I - passe in, and sped thee faste!
Seite 147 - Tisbe, that hast for love swich peyne : My lady cometh, that al this may disteyne. Herro, Dido, Laudomia, alle yfere, And Phillis, hangyng for thy Demophoun, And Canace, espied by thy chere...
Seite 88 - Of every kynde that men thynke may, And that so huge a noyse gan they make That erthe and eyr and tre and every lake So ful was, that unethe was there space For me to stonde, so ful was al the place.
Seite 52 - But hyt hadde be a thyng of heven, So mery a soun, so swete entewnes, That, certes, for the toune of Tewnes, I nolde but I had herd hem synge, For al my chambre gan to rynge, Thorgh syngynge of her armonye ; For instrument nor melodye Was no-wher herd yet half so swete, Nor of acorde ne half so mete.
Seite 185 - That so gret feyth in al that he ne fond As in a woman; and this is no lye. And as of men, loke ye which tirannye They doon alday; assay hem whoso lyste, The trewest ys ful brotel for to triste.
Seite 51 - I lay — Me mette thus — in my bed al naked And loked forth...