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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... toun : For he had power of confession , As saide himselfe , more than a curat , For of his ordre he was licenciat . Ful swetely herde he confession , And plesant was his absolution . He was an esy man to give penance , Ther as he wiste ...
... toun : For he had power of confession , As saide himselfe , more than a curat , For of his ordre he was licenciat . Ful swetely herde he confession , And plesant was his absolution . He was an esy man to give penance , Ther as he wiste ...
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... toun , men clepen Baldeswell . Tucked he was , as is a frere , aboute , And ever he rode the hinderest of the route . A SOMPNOUR was ther with us in that place , That hadde a fire - red cherubinnes face , For sausefleme he was , with ...
... toun , men clepen Baldeswell . Tucked he was , as is a frere , aboute , And ever he rode the hinderest of the route . A SOMPNOUR was ther with us in that place , That hadde a fire - red cherubinnes face , For sausefleme he was , with ...
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... toun , In all his wele and in his moste pride , He was ware , as he cast his eye aside , Wher that ther kneled in the highe wey A compagnie of ladies , twey and twey , Eche after other , clad in clothes blake : But swiche a crie and ...
... toun , In all his wele and in his moste pride , He was ware , as he cast his eye aside , Wher that ther kneled in the highe wey A compagnie of ladies , twey and twey , Eche after other , clad in clothes blake : But swiche a crie and ...
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... toun destroied , ther was nothing laft . Yet saw I brent the shippes hoppesteres , The hunte ystrangled with the wilde beres : The sow freting the child right in the cradel ; The coke yscalled , for all his long ladel . Nought was ...
... toun destroied , ther was nothing laft . Yet saw I brent the shippes hoppesteres , The hunte ystrangled with the wilde beres : The sow freting the child right in the cradel ; The coke yscalled , for all his long ladel . Nought was ...
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... toun alight . This Theseus , this duk , this worthy knight , Whan he had brought hem into his citee , And inned hem , everich at his degree , He festeth hem , and doth so gret labour To esen hem , and don hem all honour , That yet men ...
... toun alight . This Theseus , this duk , this worthy knight , Whan he had brought hem into his citee , And inned hem , everich at his degree , He festeth hem , and doth so gret labour To esen hem , and don hem all honour , That yet men ...
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