The prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury tales, ed. by W. McLeod, Ausgabe 2291871 |
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The Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Ed. by W. McLeod Geoffrey Chaucer Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accent adjective alther Anapest Anglo-Saxon atte Bath Bawdeswell Benedictine Order berd bigan byforn bygynne Canterbury Canterbury Tales Chaucer cloth coat courtepy couthe cunnan eche Edition ends in ë England English fair final French Friars Gower gret hath heed Hence herte hire hood horse i-go king of Cyprus knew knight lady litel London lord loved lovede loven means monk note to line Notes adapted nought nouns pardoner past participle past tense person pilgrimage pilgrims pleyn plural poet poetry Price priest Prioress pronounced Public School Latin reed riden rood ryde Saxon says schal sche School Latin Primer schorte schulde semed seye seynt singular slepen Sompnour speke streyt syllables Tabard termination Thanne ther therto thou toun trewe Trochee Tyrwhitt unto Uppon verbs verse vowel Wel cowde weren weye whan Wife of Bath Withouten wolde worthi wyde Zephyrus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 83 - PERSOUN of a toun; But riche he was of holy thoght and werk. He was also a lerned man, a clerk, 480 That Cristes gospel trewely wolde preche; His parisshens devoutly wolde he teche.
Seite 64 - For if he yaf, he dorste make avaunt, He wiste that a man was repentaunt. For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. 230 Therfore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres.
Seite 69 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Seite 52 - Picardie, And born him wel, as in so litel space, In hope to stonden in his lady grace. Embrowdid was he, as it were a mede Al ful of fresshe floures, white and reede.
Seite 68 - As lene was his hors as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake ; But loked holwe, and therto soberly.
Seite 33 - And bathed every veyne in swich licour. Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes...
Seite 96 - A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe. His walet lay biforn him in his lappe, Bret-ful of pardoun come from Rome al hoot.
Seite 78 - With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISYK, In al this world ne was ther noon him lyk To speke of phisik and of surgerye; For he was grounded in astronomye.
Seite 61 - Of prikyng and of huntyng for the hare Was al his lust, for no cost wolde he spare.
Seite 73 - After the sondry sesons of the yeer, So chaunged he his mete and his soper. Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in mewe, And many a breem and many a luce in stewe.