The Oxford Book of English ProseArthur Quiller-Couch Clarendon Press, 1925 - 1092 pages |
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... thou hast killid to him a fat calf . And the fadir seide to him , Sone , thou art ever more with me , and alle my goodis ben thine . But it was nede to ete and to make mery , for he , this thi brothir , was deed and lyvede agen ; he was ...
... thou hast killid to him a fat calf . And the fadir seide to him , Sone , thou art ever more with me , and alle my goodis ben thine . But it was nede to ete and to make mery , for he , this thi brothir , was deed and lyvede agen ; he was ...
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... Rome . I mechel ) much A Treatise on the Astrolabe 9 a certein of a certain ( limited ) number of 26 han ) have 23 noble clerkes Grekes ) learned Greeks 6 0 O stelliferi conditor orbis THOU Maker of the 6 GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
... Rome . I mechel ) much A Treatise on the Astrolabe 9 a certein of a certain ( limited ) number of 26 han ) have 23 noble clerkes Grekes ) learned Greeks 6 0 O stelliferi conditor orbis THOU Maker of the 6 GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
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... Thou restreinest the day by shorter dwelling , in the tyme of colde winter that maketh the leves to falle . Thou dividest the swifte tydes of the night , whan the hote somer is comen . Thy might atempreth the variaunts sesons of the ...
... Thou restreinest the day by shorter dwelling , in the tyme of colde winter that maketh the leves to falle . Thou dividest the swifte tydes of the night , whan the hote somer is comen . Thy might atempreth the variaunts sesons of the ...
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... thou , what so ever thou be that knittest alle bondes of thinges , loke on thise wrecchede erthes ; we men that ben nat a foule party but a fayr party of so grete a werk , we ben tormented in this see of fortune . Thou Governour ...
... thou , what so ever thou be that knittest alle bondes of thinges , loke on thise wrecchede erthes ; we men that ben nat a foule party but a fayr party of so grete a werk , we ben tormented in this see of fortune . Thou Governour ...
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... thou see me in lykeness of a dragoun . ' For though thou se me hidouse and horrible to loken onne , I do the to wytene that it is made be enchauntement . For withouten doute I am non other than thou seest now , a womman , and therfore ...
... thou see me in lykeness of a dragoun . ' For though thou se me hidouse and horrible to loken onne , I do the to wytene that it is made be enchauntement . For withouten doute I am non other than thou seest now , a womman , and therfore ...
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