 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1880 - 518 Seiten
...And after that I wol my leve take; And God yif every wyghte joy of his make! THE COMPLEYNT OF MARS. THE ordre of compleynt requireth skylfully, That yf...not I! Wherfor the grounde and cause of al my peyne, So as my troubled witte may hit atteyne, I wol reherse; not for to have redresse, But to declare my... | |
 | Eugen Einenkel - 1887 - 334 Seiten
...II 72. Formelhaft und sehr häufig elliptisch cause: For thou art cause why thy felaw deyth II 269, yf a wight shal pleyne pitously Ther mot be cause wherfore that men pleyne VI 266, And cause why, it schulde reported be II 354, It mighte be no bet, and cause why? Ther iаек... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1892 - 556 Seiten
...And after that I wol my leve take; And God yif every wyghte joy of his make! THE COMPLEYNT OP MARS. THE ordre of compleynt requireth skylfully, That yf...pleyne^ Other men may deme he pleyneth folely, And canseles. Alas, that do not I! Wherfor the grounde and cause of al my peyne, So as my troubled witte... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1894 - 400 Seiten
...shorter Chaucerian by the addition of the second and fifth lines, making the rhyme-order a aba abbcc, eg The ordre of compleynt requireth skylfully, That yf...pleyne pitously Ther mot be cause wherfore that men pleyn, Other, men may deme he pleyneth folely, And causeles ; alas, that am not I ! Wherefore the grounde... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1894 - 394 Seiten
...and fifth lines, making the rhyme-order aaba ab be c, eg The ordre of compleynt requireth skyfully. That yf a wight shal pleyne pitously Ther mot be cause wherfore that men pleyn, Other, men may deme he pleyneth folely, And causeles ; alas, that am not I ! Wherefore the grounde... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1894 - 408 Seiten
...and fifth lines, making the rhyme-order a aba ab be c, eg The ordre of compleynt requireth skyfully, That yf a wight shal pleyne pitously Ther mot be cause wherfore that men pleyn, Other, men may deme he pleyneth folely, And causeles ; alas, that am not I ! Wherefore the grounde... | |
 | William Anthony Davenport - 1988 - 246 Seiten
...enter into the afflicted point of view and to express moral judgment. Complaint ought to be justified: The ordre of compleynt requireth skylfully That yf...pitously, Ther mot be cause wherfore that men pleyne . . . (The Complaint of Mars, 155-7) The writers of religious lyric were already using emotion to draw... | |
 | Bonnie Wheeler - 1993 - 372 Seiten
...expressions of wanhope. The speaker in The Complaint of Mars notes the difficulty inherent in complaint: The ordre of compleynt requireth skylfully That yf...pleyne pitously, Ther mot be cause wherfore that men pleyne."9 Such words are equally applicable to women, and Anelida seems to have fathomed her cause... | |
 | Alan T. Gaylord - 2001 - 474 Seiten
...oeuvre contrefaire" (line 19). Chaucer's Mars follows this reasoning closely in Complaint of Mars: "If a wight shal pleyne pitously / Ther mot be cause wherfore that men pleyne" (lines 156-67). We understand that Machaut and Chaucer did not have to be suffering to compose effective... | |
 | Seth Lerer - 2006 - 446 Seiten
...introductory stanza to the complaint that can provide only the most awkward lead-in to a new rhyme scheme: The ordre of compleynt requireth skylfully That yf...pitously, Ther mot be cause wherfore that men pleyne; Or men may deme he pleyneth folily And causeles; alas, that am not I. Wherfore the ground and cause... | |
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So as my troubled wit may hit atteyne, I wol reherse; not for to have redresse, But to declare my ground of hevynesse. 