The Cambridge History of English Literature: The end of the Middle AgesSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1908 |
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... called the A - text of Piers the Plowman . But , according to the current view , the author did not leave matters thus . Encouraged by the success of his work and impelled by his increasing indignation at the corruptions of the age , he ...
... called the A - text of Piers the Plowman . But , according to the current view , the author did not leave matters thus . Encouraged by the success of his work and impelled by his increasing indignation at the corruptions of the age , he ...
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... called Conscience ; wilt thou marry him ? ' ' Yea , lord , ' said the lady , ' God forbid else ! ' Conscience was called and asked if he would wed her . Nay , Christ forbid ! She is frail of her flesh , fickle , a causer of wanton- ness ...
... called Conscience ; wilt thou marry him ? ' ' Yea , lord , ' said the lady , ' God forbid else ! ' Conscience was called and asked if he would wed her . Nay , Christ forbid ! She is frail of her flesh , fickle , a causer of wanton- ness ...
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... called , which occupies passus V - VIIL In outline it is as follows : At the close of the preceding vision , the king and his company went to the church to hear the services . The dreamer saw them enter , and awaked from his dream ...
... called , which occupies passus V - VIIL In outline it is as follows : At the close of the preceding vision , the king and his company went to the church to hear the services . The dreamer saw them enter , and awaked from his dream ...
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... called on the knight for protection , but the knight's efforts were vain . He then called upon Hunger , who seized Waster by the maw and wrung him so that his eyes watered , and beat the rascals till he nearly burst their ribs . Piers ...
... called on the knight for protection , but the knight's efforts were vain . He then called upon Hunger , who seized Waster by the maw and wrung him so that his eyes watered , and beat the rascals till he nearly burst their ribs . Piers ...
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... called the New Fair , a game for promoting drinking . The whole day passes in laughter and ribaldry and carousing , and , at even- song , Glutton is so drunk that he walks like a gleeman's dog , sometimes aside and sometimes aback . As ...
... called the New Fair , a game for promoting drinking . The whole day passes in laughter and ribaldry and carousing , and , at even- song , Glutton is so drunk that he walks like a gleeman's dog , sometimes aside and sometimes aback . As ...
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Page 233 - The general end therefore of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline...
Page 455 - In this Impression you shall find these Additions. 1 His Portraiture and Progenie shewed. 2 His Life collected. 3 Arguments to euery Booke gathered. 4 Old and obscure words explaned. 5 Authors by him cited, declared. 6 Difficulties opened. 7 Two Bookes of his, neuer before Printed.
Page 303 - I tryst sone aftyr to se yow. And now farewell, myn owne fayir lady, and God geve yow good rest, for in feythe I trow ye be in bed. Wretyn in my wey homward on Mary Maudeleyn Day at mydnyght. Your owne, JOHN PASTON. Mastresse Annes, I am prowd that ye can reed Inglyshe ; wherfor I prey yow aqweynt yow with thys my lewd...
Page 404 - It's whether will ye be a rank robber's wife, Or will ye die by my wee pen-knife?" "It's I'll not be a rank robber's wife, But I'll rather die by your wee pen-knife.
Page 106 - A ! fredome is a noble thing ! Fredome mayss man to haiff liking ; Fredome all solace to man giffis : He levys at ess that frely levys...
Page 247 - Off sik musik to wryte I do hot dote, Tharfor at this mater a stra I lay, For in my lyf I coud nevir syng a note. In The Testament of Cresseid, he essays the bold part of a continuator. Having turned, for fireside companionship on a cold night, to the "quair" Writtin be worthie Chaucer glorious Of fair Cresseid and lustie Troylus, he meditates on Cresseid's fate, and takes up another "quair" to " break his sleep," God wait, gif all that Chauceir wrait was trew.
Page 173 - A list of show passages would be out of place here ; it is enough to say that...
Page 371 - Glasgow, the seat of an archbishop, and of a university poorly endowed, and not rich in scholars. This notwithstanding, the church possesses prebends many and fat; but in Scotland such revenues are enjoyed in absentia just as they would be in praesentia, - a custom which I hold to be destitute at once of justice and common sense.
Page 171 - THE lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th 'assay so hard, so sharp the conquering, The...