The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 1Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson J. Johnson; J. Nichols and son; R. Baldwin; F. and C. Rivington; W. Otridge and Son; Leigh and Sotheby; R. Faulder and Son; G. Nicol and Son; T. Payne; G. Robinson; Wilkie and Robinson; C. Davies; T. Egerton; Scatcherd and Letterman; J. Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R. Lea; J. Nunn; Lackington, Allen, and Company; J. Stockdale; Cuthell and Martin; Clarke and Sons; J. White and Company; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; J. Barker; John Richardson; J.M. Richardson; J. Carpenter; B. Crosby; E. Jeffery; J. Murray; W. Miller; J. and A. Arch; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J. Booker; S. Bagster; J. Harding; J. Mackinlay; J. Hatchard; R.H. Evans; Matthews and Leigh; J. Mawman; J. Booth; J. Asperne; P. and W. Wynne; and W. Grace, Deighton and Son at Cambridge; and Wilson and Son at York, 1810 |
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... tellen you alle the condition Of ech of hem , so as it semed me , And whiche they weren , and of what degre ; And eke in what araie that they were inne : And at a knight than wol I firste beginne . A KNIGHT ther was , and that a worthy ...
... tellen you alle the condition Of ech of hem , so as it semed me , And whiche they weren , and of what degre ; And eke in what araie that they were inne : And at a knight than wol I firste beginne . A KNIGHT ther was , and that a worthy ...
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... tellen atte last , He was in church a noble ecclesiast . Wel coude he rede a lesson or a storie , But alderbest he sang an offertorie : For wel he wiste , whan that song was songe , He muste preche , and wel afile his tonge , To winne ...
... tellen atte last , He was in church a noble ecclesiast . Wel coude he rede a lesson or a storie , But alderbest he sang an offertorie : For wel he wiste , whan that song was songe , He muste preche , and wel afile his tonge , To winne ...
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... tellen his tale untrewe , Or feinen thinges , or finden wordes newe . He may not spare , although he were his brother . He moste as wel sayn o word , as an other . Crist spake himself ful brode in holy writ , And wel he wote no vilanie ...
... tellen his tale untrewe , Or feinen thinges , or finden wordes newe . He may not spare , although he were his brother . He moste as wel sayn o word , as an other . Crist spake himself ful brode in holy writ , And wel he wote no vilanie ...
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... tellen shal ) Was even joinant to the gardin wall , Ther as this Emelie had hire playing . Bright was the Sonne , and clere that morwening , And Palamon , this woful prisoner , As was his wone , by leve of his gayler Was risen , and ...
... tellen shal ) Was even joinant to the gardin wall , Ther as this Emelie had hire playing . Bright was the Sonne , and clere that morwening , And Palamon , this woful prisoner , As was his wone , by leve of his gayler Was risen , and ...
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... tellen shall . This was the forword , plainly for to endite , Betwixen Theseus and him Arcite : That if so were , that Arcite were yfound Ever in his lif , by day or night , o stound In any contree of this Theseus , And he were caught ...
... tellen shall . This was the forword , plainly for to endite , Betwixen Theseus and him Arcite : That if so were , that Arcite were yfound Ever in his lif , by day or night , o stound In any contree of this Theseus , And he were caught ...
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