British Poetry and Prose: A Book of ReadingsPaul Robert Lieder, Robert Morss Lovett, Robert Kilburn Root Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928 - 1346 pages Part 2 Wordworth to Yeats. |
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... Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote 1 The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote , And bathed every veyne in swich 2 licour , Of which vertu 3 engendred is the flour ; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in ...
... Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote 1 The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote , And bathed every veyne in swich 2 licour , Of which vertu 3 engendred is the flour ; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in ...
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... whan it was wonne ; Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne 4 Aboven alle naciouns in Pruce.5 8 7 55 In Lettow hadde he reysed and in Ruce , No Cristen man so ofte of his degree . In Gernade at the sege eek hadde he be Of Algezir ...
... whan it was wonne ; Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne 4 Aboven alle naciouns in Pruce.5 8 7 55 In Lettow hadde he reysed and in Ruce , No Cristen man so ofte of his degree . In Gernade at the sege eek hadde he be Of Algezir ...
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... whan she dronken hadde hir draughte . 135 140 Ful semely after hir mete she raughte , 2 And sikerly she was of greet disport , 3 And ful plesaunt , and amiable of port , And peyned hir to countrefete chere 4 Of court , and been ...
... whan she dronken hadde hir draughte . 135 140 Ful semely after hir mete she raughte , 2 And sikerly she was of greet disport , 3 And ful plesaunt , and amiable of port , And peyned hir to countrefete chere 4 Of court , and been ...
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... whan that he had songe , His eyen twinkled in his heed aright , As doon the sterres in the frosty night . This worthy limitour was cleped Huberd . A MARCHANT was ther with a forked berd , 270 In mottelee , ' and hye on horse he sat , Up ...
... whan that he had songe , His eyen twinkled in his heed aright , As doon the sterres in the frosty night . This worthy limitour was cleped Huberd . A MARCHANT was ther with a forked berd , 270 In mottelee , ' and hye on horse he sat , Up ...
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... whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn , Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn . A fewe termes hadde he , two or three , That he had lerned out of som decree ; 640 No wonder is , he herde it al the day ; And eek ye knowen wel , how that ...
... whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn , Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn . A fewe termes hadde he , two or three , That he had lerned out of som decree ; 640 No wonder is , he herde it al the day ; And eek ye knowen wel , how that ...
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