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| CYT 929 That is the cause and oother noon, so thee 'ch! " | 27382 |
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| GP 19 Bifil that in that seson on a day, | 18 |
| GP 24 Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye | 24 |
| GP 42 And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne. | 42 |
| GP 43 A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, | 42 |
| GP 43 A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, | 42 |
| GP 60 At many a noble armee hadde he be. | 60 |
| GP 67 And everemoore he hadde a sovereyn prys. | 66 |
| GP 69 And of his port as meeke as is a mayde. | 68 |
| GP 72 He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght. | 72 |
| GP 75 Of fustian he wered a gypon | 74 |
| GP 79 With hym ther was his sone, a yong SQUIER, | 78 |
| GP 80 A lovyere and a lusty bacheler, | 80 |
| GP 80 A lovyere and a lusty bacheler, | 80 |
| GP 89 Embrouded was he, as it were a meede | 88 |
| GP 98 He sleep namoore than dooth a nyghtyngale. | 98 |
| GP 101 A YEMAN hadde he and servantz namo | 100 |
| GP 104 A sheef of pecok arwes, bright and kene, | 104 |
| GP 108 And in his hand he baar a myghty bowe. | 108 |
| GP 109 A not heed hadde he, with a broun visage. | 108 |
| GP 109 A not heed hadde he, with a broun visage. | 108 |
| GP 111 Upon his arm he baar a gay bracer, | 110 |
| GP 112 And by his syde a swerd and a bokeler, | 112 |
| GP 112 And by his syde a swerd and a bokeler, | 112 |
| GP 113 And on that oother syde a gay daggere | 112 |
| GP 115 A Cristopher on his brest of silver sheene. | 114 |
| GP 117 A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse. | 116 |
| GP 118 Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, | 118 |
| GP 118 Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, | 118 |
| GP 130 Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe | 130 |
| GP 144 She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous | 144 |
| GP 145 Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. | 144 |
| GP 149 Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte; | 148 |
| GP 154 But sikerly she hadde a fair forheed; | 154 |
| GP 155 It was almoost a spanne brood, I trowe; | 154 |
| GP 159 A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene, | 158 |
| GP 160 And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene, | 160 |
| GP 161 On which ther was first write a crowned A, | 160 |
| GP 161 On which ther was first write a crowned A, | 160 |
| GP 165 A MONK ther was, a fair for the maistrie, | 164 |
| GP 165 A MONK ther was, a fair for the maistrie, | 164 |
| GP 167 A manly man, to been an abbot able. | 166 |
| GP 168 Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable, | 168 |
| GP 170 Gynglen in a whistlynge wynd als cleere | 170 |
| GP 177 He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, | 176 |
| GP 179 Ne that a monk, whan he is recchelees, | 178 |
| GP 180 Is likned til a fissh that is waterlees -- | 180 |
| GP 181 This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre. | 180 |
| GP 185 Upon a book in cloystre alwey to poure, | 184 |
| GP 189 Therfore he was a prikasour aright: | 188 |
| GP 194 With grys, and that the fyneste of a lond; | 194 |
| GP 196 He hadde of gold ywroght a ful curious pyn; | 196 |
| GP 197 A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. | 196 |
| GP 200 He was a lord ful fat and in good poynt; | 200 |
| GP 202 That stemed as a forneys of a leed; | 202 |
| GP 202 That stemed as a forneys of a leed; | 202 |
| GP 204 Now certeinly he was a fair prelaat; | 204 |
| GP 205 He was nat pale as a forpyned goost. | 204 |
| GP 206 A fat swan loved he best of any roost. | 206 |
| GP 207 His palfrey was as broun as is a berye. | 206 |
| GP 208 A FRERE ther was, a wantowne and a merye, | 208 |
| GP 208 A FRERE ther was, a wantowne and a merye, | 208 |
| GP 208 A FRERE ther was, a wantowne and a merye, | 208 |
| GP 209 A lymytour, a ful solempne man. | 208 |
| GP 209 A lymytour, a ful solempne man. | 208 |
| GP 212 He hadde maad ful many a mariage | 212 |
| GP 214 Unto his ordre he was a noble post. | 214 |
| GP 219 As seyde hymself, moore than a curat, | 218 |
| GP 224 Ther as he wiste to have a good pitaunce. | 224 |
| GP 225 For unto a povre ordre for to yive | 224 |
| GP 226 Is signe that a man is wel yshryve; | 226 |
| GP 228 He wiste that a man was repentaunt; | 228 |
| GP 229 For many a man so hard is of his herte, | 228 |
| GP 235 And certeinly he hadde a murye note: | 234 |
| GP 236 Wel koude he synge and pleyen on a rote; | 236 |
| GP 239 Therto he strong was as a champioun. | 238 |
| GP 242 Bet than a lazar or a beggestere, | 242 |
| GP 242 Bet than a lazar or a beggestere, | 242 |
| GP 243 For unto swich a worthy man as he | 242 |
| GP 252a [And yaf a certeyn ferme for the graunt; | 252 |
| GP 253 For thogh a wydwe hadde noght a sho, | 254 |
| GP 253 For thogh a wydwe hadde noght a sho, | 254 |
| GP 255 Yet wolde he have a ferthyng, er he wente. | 256 |
| GP 257 And rage he koude, as it were right a whelp. | 258 |
| GP 259 For ther he was nat lyk a cloysterer | 260 |
| GP 260 With a thredbare cope, as is a povre scoler, | 262 |
| GP 260 With a thredbare cope, as is a povre scoler, | 262 |
| GP 261 But he was lyk a maister or a pope. | 262 |
| GP 261 But he was lyk a maister or a pope. | 262 |
| GP 263 That rounded as a belle out of the presse. | 264 |
| GP 270 A MARCHANT was ther with a forked berd, | 272 |
| GP 270 A MARCHANT was ther with a forked berd, | 272 |
| GP 272 Upon his heed a Flaundryssh bever hat, | 274 |
| GP 283 For sothe he was a worthy man with alle, | 284 |
| GP 285 A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, | 286 |
| GP 287 As leene was his hors as is a rake, | 288 |
| GP 297 But al be that he was a philosophre, | 298 |
| GP 309 A SERGEANT OF THE LAWE, war and wys, | 310 |
| GP 318 So greet a purchasour was nowher noon: | 320 |
| GP 321 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, | 322 |
| GP 325 Therto he koude endite and make a thyng, | 326 |
| GP 328 He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote, | 330 |
| GP 329 Girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale; | 330 |
| GP 331 A FRANKELEYN was in his compaignye. | 332 |
| GP 334 Wel loved he by the morwe a sop in wyn; | 336 |
| GP 339 An housholdere, and that a greet, was he; | 340 |
| GP 342 A bettre envyned man was nowher noon. | 344 |
| GP 349 Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in muwe, | 350 |
| GP 350 And many a breem and many a luce in stuwe. | 352 |
| GP 350 And many a breem and many a luce in stuwe. | 352 |
| GP 357 An anlaas and a gipser al of silk | 358 |
| GP 359 A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. | 360 |
| GP 359 A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. | 360 |
| GP 360 Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour. | 362 |
| GP 361 AN HABERDASSHERE and a CARPENTER, | 362 |
| GP 362 A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER -- | 364 |
| GP 362 A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER -- | 364 |
| GP 362 A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER -- | 364 |
| GP 364 Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee. | 366 |
| GP 364 Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee. | 366 |
| GP 369 Wel semed ech of hem a fair burgeys | 370 |
| GP 370 To sitten in a yeldehalle on a deys. | 372 |
| GP 370 To sitten in a yeldehalle on a deys. | 372 |
| GP 378 And have a mantel roialliche ybore. | 380 |
| GP 379 A COOK they hadde with hem for the nones | 380 |
| GP 382 Wel koude he knowe a draughte of Londoun ale. | 384 |
| GP 384 Maken mortreux, and wel bake a pye. | 386 |
| GP 386 That on his shyne a mormal hadde he. | 388 |
| GP 388 A SHIPMAN was ther, wonynge fer by weste; | 390 |
| GP 390 He rood upon a rouncy, as he kouthe, | 392 |
| GP 391 In a gowne of faldyng to the knee. | 392 |
| GP 392 A daggere hangynge on a laas hadde he | 394 |
| GP 392 A daggere hangynge on a laas hadde he | 394 |
| GP 395 And certeinly he was a good felawe. | 396 |
| GP 396 Ful many a draughte of wyn had he ydrawe | 398 |
| GP 406 With many a tempest hadde his berd been shake. | 408 |
| GP 411 With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISIK; | 412 |
| GP 415 He kepte his pacient a ful greet deel | 416 |
| GP 422 He was a verray, parfit praktisour: | 424 |
| GP 443 For gold in phisik is a cordial, | 444 |
| GP 445 A good WIF was ther OF biside BATHE, | 446 |
| GP 455 That on a Sonday weren upon hir heed. | 456 |
| GP 459 She was a worthy womman al hir lyve: | 460 |
| GP 464 She hadde passed many a straunge strem; | 466 |
| GP 471 As brood as is a bokeler or a targe; | 472 |
| GP 471 As brood as is a bokeler or a targe; | 472 |
| GP 472 A foot-mantel aboute hir hipes large, | 474 |
| GP 473 And on hir feet a paire of spores sharpe. | 474 |
| GP 477 A good man was ther of religioun, | 478 |
| GP 478 And was a povre PERSOUN OF A TOUN, | 480 |
| GP 478 And was a povre PERSOUN OF A TOUN, | 480 |
| GP 480 He was also a lerned man, a clerk, | 482 |
| GP 480 He was also a lerned man, a clerk, | 482 |
| GP 495 Upon his feet, and in his hand a staf. | 496 |
| GP 501 For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, | 502 |
| GP 502 No wonder is a lewed man to ruste; | 504 |
| GP 503 And shame it is, if a prest take keep, | 504 |
| GP 504 A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. | 506 |
| GP 504 A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. | 506 |
| GP 505 Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, | 506 |
| GP 510 To seken hym a chaunterie for soules, | 512 |
| GP 511 Or with a bretherhed to been withholde; | 512 |
| GP 514 He was a shepherde and noght a mercenarie. | 516 |
| GP 514 He was a shepherde and noght a mercenarie. | 516 |
| GP 524 A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon ys. | 526 |
| GP 526 Ne maked him a spiced conscience, | 528 |
| GP 529 With hym ther was a PLOWMAN, was his brother, | 530 |
| GP 530 That hadde ylad of dong ful many a fother; | 532 |
| GP 531 A trewe swynkere and a good was he, | 532 |
| GP 531 A trewe swynkere and a good was he, | 532 |
| GP 541 In a tabard he rood upon a mere. | 542 |
| GP 541 In a tabard he rood upon a mere. | 542 |
| GP 542 Ther was also a REVE, and a MILLERE, | 544 |
| GP 542 Ther was also a REVE, and a MILLERE, | 544 |
| GP 543 A SOMNOUR, and a PARDONER also, | 544 |
| GP 543 A SOMNOUR, and a PARDONER also, | 544 |
| GP 544 A MAUNCIPLE, and myself -- ther were namo. | 546 |
| GP 545 The MILLERE was a stout carl for the nones; | 546 |
| GP 549 He was short-sholdred, brood, a thikke knarre; | 550 |
| GP 551 Or breke it at a rennyng with his heed. | 552 |
| GP 553 And therto brood, as though it were a spade. | 554 |
| GP 555 A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys, | 556 |
| GP 555 A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys, | 556 |
| GP 556 Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys; | 558 |
| GP 558 A swerd and a bokeler bar he by his syde. | 560 |
| GP 558 A swerd and a bokeler bar he by his syde. | 560 |
| GP 559 His mouth as greet was as a greet forneys. | 560 |
| GP 560 He was a janglere and a goliardeys, | 562 |
| GP 560 He was a janglere and a goliardeys, | 562 |
| GP 563 And yet he hadde a thombe of gold, pardee. | 564 |
| GP 564 A whit cote and a blew hood wered he. | 566 |
| GP 564 A whit cote and a blew hood wered he. | 566 |
| GP 565 A baggepipe wel koude he blowe and sowne, | 566 |
| GP 567 A gentil MAUNCIPLE was ther of a temple, | 568 |
| GP 567 A gentil MAUNCIPLE was ther of a temple, | 568 |
| GP 573 Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace | 574 |
| GP 574 That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace | 576 |
| GP 578 Of which ther were a duszeyne in that hous | 580 |
| GP 584 And able for to helpen al a shire | 586 |
| GP 587 The REVE was a sclendre colerik man. | 588 |
| GP 590 His top was dokked lyk a preest biforn. | 592 |
| GP 592 Ylyk a staf; ther was no calf ysene. | 594 |
| GP 593 Wel koude he kepe a gerner and a bynne; | 594 |
| GP 593 Wel koude he kepe a gerner and a bynne; | 594 |
| GP 612 And have a thank, and yet a cote and hood. | 614 |
| GP 612 And have a thank, and yet a cote and hood. | 614 |
| GP 613 In youthe he hadde lerned a good myster: | 614 |
| GP 614 He was a wel good wrighte, a carpenter. | 616 |
| GP 614 He was a wel good wrighte, a carpenter. | 616 |
| GP 615 This Reve sat upon a ful good stot | 616 |
| GP 617 A long surcote of pers upon he hade, | 618 |
| GP 618 And by his syde he baar a rusty blade. | 620 |
| GP 620 Biside a toun men clepen Baldeswelle. | 622 |
| GP 621 Tukked he was as is a frere aboute, | 622 |
| GP 623 A SOMONOUR was ther with us in that place, | 624 |
| GP 624 That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face, | 626 |
| GP 626 As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe, | 628 |
| GP 639 A fewe termes hadde he, two or thre, | 640 |
| GP 642 And eek ye knowen wel how that a jay | 644 |
| GP 647 He was a gentil harlot and a kynde; | 648 |
| GP 647 He was a gentil harlot and a kynde; | 648 |
| GP 648 A bettre felawe sholde men noght fynde. | 650 |
| GP 649 He wolde suffre for a quart of wyn | 650 |
| GP 650 A good felawe to have his concubyn | 652 |
| GP 651 A twelf month, and excuse hym atte fulle; | 652 |
| GP 652 Ful prively a fynch eek koude he pulle. | 654 |
| GP 653 And if he foond owher a good felawe, | 654 |
| GP 656 But if a mannes soule were in his purs; | 658 |
| GP 662 And also war hym of a Significavit. | 664 |
| GP 666 A gerland hadde he set upon his heed, | 668 |
| GP 668 A bokeleer hadde he maad hym of a cake. | 670 |
| GP 668 A bokeleer hadde he maad hym of a cake. | 670 |
| GP 669 With hym ther rood a gentil PARDONER | 670 |
| GP 673 This Somonour bar to hym a stif burdoun; | 674 |
| GP 674 Was nevere trompe of half so greet a soun. | 676 |
| GP 676 But smothe it heeng as dooth a strike of flex; | 678 |
| GP 685 A vernycle hadde he sowed upon his cappe. | 686 |
| GP 688 A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot. | 690 |
| GP 688 A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot. | 690 |
| GP 691 I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare. | 692 |
| GP 691 I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare. | 692 |
| GP 694 For in his male he hadde a pilwe-beer, | 696 |
| GP 696 He seyde he hadde a gobet of the seyl | 698 |
| GP 699 He hadde a croys of latoun ful of stones, | 700 |
| GP 700 And in a glas he hadde pigges bones. | 702 |
| GP 702 A povre person dwellynge upon lond, | 704 |
| GP 703 Upon a day he gat hym moore moneye | 704 |
| GP 708 He was in chirche a noble ecclesiaste. | 710 |
| GP 709 Wel koude he rede a lessoun or a storie, | 710 |
| GP 709 Wel koude he rede a lessoun or a storie, | 710 |
| GP 715 Now have I toold you soothly, in a clause, | 716 |
| GP 731 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, | 732 |
| GP 731 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, | 732 |
| GP 733 Everich a word, if it be in his charge, | 734 |
| GP 751 A semely man OURE HOOSTE was withalle | 752 |
| GP 752 For to been a marchal in an halle. | 754 |
| GP 753 A large man he was with eyen stepe -- | 754 |
| GP 754 A fairer burgeys was ther noon in Chepe -- | 756 |
| GP 757 Eek therto he was right a myrie man; | 758 |
| GP 764 I saugh nat this yeer so myrie a compaignye | 766 |
| GP 767 And of a myrthe I am right now bythoght, | 768 |
| GP 774 To ride by the weye doumb as a stoon; | 776 |
| GP 799 Shal have a soper at oure aller cost | 800 |
| GP 815 And sette a soper at a certeyn pris, | 816 |
| GP 815 And sette a soper at a certeyn pris, | 816 |
| GP 824 And gadrede us togidre alle in a flok, | 826 |
| GP 825 And forth we riden a litel moore than paas | 826 |
| GP 854 What, welcome be the cut, a Goddes name! | 856 |
| GP 857 And he bigan with right a myrie cheere | 858 |
| KnT 860 Ther was a duc that highte Theseus; | 862 |
| KnT 862 And in his tyme swich a conquerour | 864 |
| KnT 864 Ful many a riche contree hadde he wonne; | 866 |
| KnT 886 I have, God woot, a large feeld to ere, | 888 |
| KnT 898 A compaignye of ladyes, tweye and tweye, | 900 |
| KnT 900 But swich a cry and swich a wo they make | 902 |
| KnT 900 But swich a cry and swich a wo they make | 902 |
| KnT 913 Whan she hadde swowned with a deedly cheere, | 914 |
| KnT 916 Victorie, and as a conqueror to lyven, | 918 |
| KnT 923 That she ne hath been a duchesse or a queene. | 924 |
| KnT 923 That she ne hath been a duchesse or a queene. | 924 |
| KnT 969 Ne take his ese fully half a day, | 970 |
| KnT 984 Faire in a feeld, ther as he thoughte to fighte. | 986 |
| KnT 987 He faught, and slough hym manly as a knyght | 988 |
| KnT 1010 Thurgh-girt with many a grevous blody wounde, | 1012 |
| KnT 1027 With laurer crowned as a conquerour; | 1028 |
| KnT 1030 And in a tour, in angwissh and in wo, | 1032 |
| KnT 1034 Till it fil ones, in a morwe of May, | 1036 |
| KnT 1049 Hir yelow heer was broyded in a tresse | 1050 |
| KnT 1050 Bihynde hir bak, a yerde long, I gesse. | 1052 |
| KnT 1054 To make a subtil gerland for hire hede; | 1056 |
| KnT 1065 Was risen and romed in a chambre an heigh, | 1066 |
| KnT 1075 That thurgh a wyndow, thikke of many a barre | 1076 |
| KnT 1075 That thurgh a wyndow, thikke of many a barre | 1076 |
| KnT 1078 And therwithal he bleynte and cride, " A! " | 1080 |
| KnT 1094 Thow hast a veyn ymaginacioun. | 1096 |
| KnT 1117 And with a sigh he seyde pitously, | 1118 |
| KnT 1149 For which thou art ybounden as a knyght | 1150 |
| KnT 1157 Wheither she be a womman or goddesse! | 1158 |
| KnT 1159 And myn is love as to a creature; | 1160 |
| KnT 1164 That `who shal yeve a lovere any lawe?' | 1166 |
| KnT 1165 Love is a gretter lawe, by my pan, | 1166 |
| KnT 1169 A man moot nedes love, maugree his heed; | 1170 |
| KnT 1179 Ther cam a kyte, whil that they were so wrothe, | 1180 |
| KnT 1189 But to th' effect. It happed on a day, | 1190 |
| KnT 1191 A worthy duc that highte Perotheus, | 1192 |
| KnT 1208 In swich a gyse as I you tellen shal. | 1210 |
| KnT 1215 That with a swerd he sholde lese his heed. | 1216 |
| KnT 1219 How greet a sorwe suffreth now Arcite! | 1220 |
| KnT 1241 And art a knyght, a worthy and an able, | 1242 |
| KnT 1241 And art a knyght, a worthy and an able, | 1242 |
| KnT 1253 That yeveth hem ful ofte in many a gyse | 1254 |
| KnT 1261 We faren as he that dronke is as a mous. | 1262 |
| KnT 1262 A dronke man woot wel he hath an hous, | 1264 |
| KnT 1264 And to a dronke man the wey is slider. | 1266 |
| KnT 1269 That wende and hadde a greet opinioun | 1270 |
| KnT 1287 And make a werre so sharp on this citee | 1288 |
| KnT 1293 And art a lord, greet is thyn avauntage | 1294 |
| KnT 1294 Moore than is myn, that sterve here in a cage. | 1296 |
| KnT 1318 Ther as a beest may al his lust fulfille. | 1320 |
| KnT 1319 And whan a beest is deed he hath no peyne; | 1320 |
| KnT 1325 Allas, I se a serpent or a theef, | 1326 |
| KnT 1325 Allas, I se a serpent or a theef, | 1326 |
| KnT 1326 That many a trewe man hath doon mescheef, | 1328 |
| KnT 1334 Now wol I stynte of Palamon a lite, | 1336 |
| KnT 1356 Ful ofte a day he swelte and seyde " Allas! " | 1358 |
| KnT 1362 That lene he wex and drye as is a shaft; | 1364 |
| KnT 1381 Whan he endured hadde a yeer or two | 1382 |
| KnT 1384 Upon a nyght in sleep as he hym leyde, | 1386 |
| KnT 1399 And with that word he caughte a greet mirour, | 1400 |
| KnT 1409 And cladde hym as a povre laborer, | 1410 |
| KnT 1410 And al allone, save oonly a squier | 1412 |
| KnT 1414 And to the court he wente upon a day, | 1416 |
| KnT 1418 He fil in office with a chamberleyn | 1420 |
| KnT 1426 A yeer or two he was in this servyse, | 1428 |
| KnT 1429 But half so wel biloved a man as he | 1430 |
| KnT 1433 They seyden that it were a charitee | 1434 |
| KnT 1437 And thus withinne a while his name is spronge, | 1438 |
| KnT 1440 That of his chambre he made hym a squier, | 1442 |
| KnT 1450 And speke I wole of Palamon a lite. | 1452 |
| KnT 1457 And eek therto he is a prisoner | 1458 |
| KnT 1458 Perpetuelly, noght oonly for a yer. | 1460 |
| KnT 1466 As, whan a thyng is shapen, it shal be -- | 1468 |
| KnT 1468 By helpyng of a freend, brak his prisoun | 1470 |
| KnT 1471 Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, | 1472 |
| KnT 1471 Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, | 1472 |
| KnT 1478 And til a grove faste ther bisyde | 1480 |
| KnT 1502 He on a courser, startlynge as the fir, | 1504 |
| KnT 1504 Out of the court, were it a myle or tweye. | 1506 |
| KnT 1507 To maken hym a gerland of the greves, | 1508 |
| KnT 1513 And from his courser, with a lusty herte, | 1514 |
| KnT 1515 And in a path he rometh up and doun, | 1516 |
| KnT 1517 Was in a bussh, that no man myghte hym se, | 1518 |
| KnT 1523 It is ful fair a man to bere hym evene, | 1524 |
| KnT 1530 Into a studie he fil sodeynly, | 1532 |
| KnT 1533 Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle. | 1534 |
| KnT 1558 Now highte I Philostrate, noght worth a myte. | 1560 |
| KnT 1570 Ne sette I nat the montance of a tare, | 1572 |
| KnT 1572 And with that word he fil doun in a traunce | 1574 |
| KnT 1573 A longe tyme, and after he up sterte. | 1574 |
| KnT 1575 He felte a coold swerd sodeynliche glyde, | 1576 |
| KnT 1608 But for as muche thou art a worthy knyght | 1610 |
| KnT 1612 That heere I wol be founden as a knyght, | 1614 |
| KnT 1639 That stondeth at the gappe with a spere, | 1640 |
| KnT 1656 In his fightyng were a wood leon, | 1658 |
| KnT 1657 And as a crueel tigre was Arcite; | 1658 |
| KnT 1667 The contrarie of a thyng by ye or nay, | 1668 |
| KnT 1668 Yet somtyme it shal fallen on a day | 1670 |
| KnT 1669 That falleth nat eft withinne a thousand yeer. | 1670 |
| KnT 1693 And over a brook, and so forth on his weye. | 1694 |
| KnT 1694 This duc wol han a cours at hym or tweye | 1696 |
| KnT 1705 And at a stert he was bitwix hem two, | 1706 |
| KnT 1706 And pulled out a swerd and cride, " Hoo! | 1708 |
| KnT 1713 As it were in a lystes roially. " | 1714 |
| KnT 1719 And as thou art a rightful lord and juge, | 1720 |
| KnT 1729 Thus hath he japed thee ful many a yer, | 1730 |
| KnT 1743 And seyde, " This is a short conclusioun. | 1744 |
| KnT 1752 That evere swich a chaunce sholde falle, | 1754 |
| KnT 1763 He hath considered shortly, in a clause, | 1764 |
| KnT 1774 Upon a lord that wol have no mercy, | 1776 |
| KnT 1775 But been a leon, bothe in word and dede, | 1776 |
| KnT 1777 As wel as to a proud despitous man | 1778 |
| KnT 1785 " The god of love, a benedicite! | 1786 |
| KnT 1786 How myghty and how greet a lord is he! | 1788 |
| KnT 1788 He may be cleped a god for his myracles, | 1790 |
| KnT 1799 Who may been a fool but if he love? | 1800 |
| KnT 1810 By God, than woot a cokkow or an hare! | 1812 |
| KnT 1812 A man moot ben a fool, or yong or oold -- | 1814 |
| KnT 1812 A man moot ben a fool, or yong or oold -- | 1814 |
| KnT 1814 For in my tyme a servant was I oon. | 1816 |
| KnT 1816 And woot hou soore it kan a man distreyne, | 1818 |
| KnT 1830 Though that she were a queene or a princesse, | 1832 |
| KnT 1830 Though that she were a queene or a princesse, | 1832 |
| KnT 1855 Upon my trouthe, and as I am a knyght, | 1856 |
| KnT 1861 To whom that Fortune yeveth so fair a grace. | 1862 |
| KnT 1874 Whan Theseus hath doon so fair a grace? | 1876 |
| KnT 1885 That swich a noble theatre as it was | 1886 |
| KnT 1887 The circuit a myle was aboute, | 1888 |
| KnT 1891 That whan a man was set on o degree, | 1892 |
| KnT 1893 Estward ther stood a gate of marbul whit, | 1894 |
| KnT 1895 And shortly to concluden, swich a place | 1896 |
| KnT 1908 That coste largely of gold a fother. | 1910 |
| KnT 1909 And northward, in a touret on the wal, | 1910 |
| KnT 1929 That wered of yelewe gooldes a gerland, | 1930 |
| KnT 1930 And a cokkow sittynge on hir hand; | 1932 |
| KnT 1954 And though I koude rekene a thousand mo. | 1956 |
| KnT 1959 A citole in hir right hand hadde she, | 1960 |
| KnT 1961 A rose gerland, fressh and wel smellynge; | 1962 |
| KnT 1966 A bowe he bar and arwes brighte and kene. | 1968 |
| KnT 1975 First on the wal was peynted a forest, | 1976 |
| KnT 1979 In which ther ran a rumbel in a swough, | 1980 |
| KnT 1979 In which ther ran a rumbel in a swough, | 1980 |
| KnT 1980 As though a storm sholde bresten every bough. | 1982 |
| KnT 1981 And dounward from an hille, under a bente, | 1982 |
| KnT 1985 And therout came a rage and swich a veze | 1986 |
| KnT 1985 And therout came a rage and swich a veze | 1986 |
| KnT 2014 A thousand slayn, and nat of qualm ystorve; | 2016 |
| KnT 2027 And al above, depeynted in a tour, | 2028 |
| KnT 2030 Hangynge by a soutil twynes threed. | 2032 |
| KnT 2041 The statue of Mars upon a carte stood | 2042 |
| KnT 2047 A wolf ther stood biforn hym at his feet | 2048 |
| KnT 2048 With eyen rede, and of a man he eet; | 2050 |
| KnT 2058 Was turned from a womman til a bere, | 2060 |
| KnT 2058 Was turned from a womman til a bere, | 2060 |
| KnT 2061 Hir sone is eek a sterre, as men may see. | 2062 |
| KnT 2062 Ther saugh I Dane, yturned til a tree -- | 2064 |
| KnT 2069 Yet peynted was a litel forther moor | 2070 |
| KnT 2077 And undernethe hir feet she hadde a moone -- | 2078 |
| KnT 2080 With bowe in honde and arwes in a cas. | 2082 |
| KnT 2083 A womman travaillynge was hire biforn; | 2084 |
| KnT 2088 With many a floryn he the hewes boghte. | 2090 |
| KnT 2093 But stynte I wole of Theseus a lite, | 2094 |
| KnT 2101 And sikerly ther trowed many a man | 2102 |
| KnT 2105 Nas of so fewe so noble a compaignye. | 2106 |
| KnT 2107 And wolde, his thankes, han a passant name, | 2108 |
| KnT 2110 For if ther fille tomorwe swich a cas, | 2112 |
| KnT 2115 To fighte for a lady, benedicitee! | 2116 |
| KnT 2116 It were a lusty sighte for to see. | 2118 |
| KnT 2120 And in a brestplate and a light gypoun; | 2122 |
| KnT 2120 And in a brestplate and a light gypoun; | 2122 |
| KnT 2121 And som wol have a paire plates large; | 2122 |
| KnT 2122 And som wol have a Pruce sheeld or a targe; | 2124 |
| KnT 2122 And som wol have a Pruce sheeld or a targe; | 2124 |
| KnT 2124 And have an ax, and som a mace of steel -- | 2126 |
| KnT 2133 And lik a grifphon looked he aboute, | 2134 |
| KnT 2138 Ful hye upon a chaar of gold stood he, | 2140 |
| KnT 2142 He hadde a beres skyn, col-blak for old. | 2144 |
| KnT 2145 A wrethe of gold, arm-greet, of huge wighte, | 2146 |
| KnT 2157 Upon a steede bay trapped in steel, | 2158 |
| KnT 2163 A mantelet upon his shulder hangynge, | 2164 |
| KnT 2169 A fewe frakenes in his face yspreynd, | 2170 |
| KnT 2171 And as a leon he his lookyng caste. | 2172 |
| KnT 2174 His voys was as a trompe thonderynge. | 2176 |
| KnT 2176 A gerland, fressh and lusty for to sene. | 2178 |
| KnT 2186 Ful many a tame leon and leopart. | 2188 |
| KnT 2217 And in hir houre he walketh forth a pas | 2218 |
| KnT 2255 Thanne preye I thee, tomorwe with a spere | 2256 |
| KnT 2266 And made a signe, wherby that he took | 2268 |
| KnT 2268 For thogh the signe shewed a delay, | 2270 |
| KnT 2283 Hir body wessh with water of a welle. | 2284 |
| KnT 2286 And yet it were a game to heeren al. | 2288 |
| KnT 2288 But it is good a man been at his large. | 2290 |
| KnT 2290 A coroune of a grene ook cerial | 2292 |
| KnT 2290 A coroune of a grene ook cerial | 2292 |
| KnT 2301 Ful many a yeer, and woost what I desire, | 2302 |
| KnT 2305 Desire to ben a mayden al my lyf, | 2306 |
| KnT 2308 A mayde, and love huntynge and venerye, | 2310 |
| KnT 2310 And noght to ben a wyf and be with childe. | 2312 |
| KnT 2330 And whil I lyve, a mayde I wol thee serve. " | 2332 |
| KnT 2333 But sodeynly she saugh a sighte queynte, | 2334 |
| KnT 2337 And as it queynte it made a whistelynge, | 2338 |
| KnT 2360 And forth she wente and made a vanysshynge; | 2362 |
| KnT 2388 Although thee ones on a tyme mysfille, | 2390 |
| KnT 2427 A sweete smel the ground anon up yaf, | 2428 |
| KnT 2432 And with that soun he herde a murmurynge | 2434 |
| KnT 2494 And to the paleys rood ther many a route | 2496 |
| KnT 2520 " He hath a sparth of twenty pound of wighte. " | 2522 |
| KnT 2528 Duc Theseus was at a wyndow set, | 2530 |
| KnT 2529 Arrayed right as he were a god in trone. | 2530 |
| KnT 2533 An heraud on a scaffold made an " Oo! " | 2534 |
| KnT 2549 But o cours with a sharpe ygrounde spere; | 2550 |
| KnT 2563 " God save swich a lord, that is so good | 2564 |
| KnT 2569 Ful lik a lord this noble duc gan ryde, | 2570 |
| KnT 2614 He rolleth under foot as dooth a bal; | 2616 |
| KnT 2623 Ful ofte a day han thise Thebanes two | 2624 |
| KnT 2646 Is born out of his sadel a swerdes lengthe, | 2648 |
| KnT 2660 Anon ther is a noyse of peple bigonne | 2662 |
| KnT 2674 But herkneth me, and stynteth noyse a lite, | 2676 |
| KnT 2675 Which a myracle ther bifel anon. | 2676 |
| KnT 2677 And on a courser, for to shewe his face, | 2678 |
| KnT 2680 And she agayn hym caste a freendlich ye | 2682 |
| KnT 2684 Out of the ground a furie infernal sterte, | 2686 |
| KnT 2697 And in a bed ybrought ful faire and blyve, | 2698 |
| KnT 2710 That with a spere was thirled his brest boon. | 2712 |
| KnT 2720 But as a justes or a tourneiynge; | 2722 |
| KnT 2720 But as a justes or a tourneiynge; | 2722 |
| KnT 2736 And fully heeld a feeste dayes three, | 2738 |
| KnT 2738 Out of his toun a journee largely. | 2740 |
| KnT 2784 Had strif and rancour many a day agon | 2786 |
| KnT 2787 To speken of a servaunt proprely, | 2788 |
| KnT 2796 And if that evere ye shul ben a wyf, | 2798 |
| KnT 2847 This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, | 2848 |
| KnT 2863 He wolde make a fyr in which the office | 2864 |
| KnT 2866 The okes olde, and leye hem on a rewe | 2868 |
| KnT 2871 After a beere, and it al overspradde | 2872 |
| KnT 2875 Eek on his heed a coroune of laurer grene, | 2876 |
| KnT 2876 And in his hond a swerd ful bright and kene. | 2878 |
| KnT 2897 And riden forth a paas with sorweful cheere | 2898 |
| KnT 2918 Of stree first ther was leyd ful many a lode. | 2920 |
| KnT 2934 And thanne with drye stikkes cloven a thre, | 2936 |
| KnT 2937 And gerlandes, hangynge with ful many a flour; | 2938 |
| KnT 2953 Upon the left hand, with a loud shoutynge, | 2954 |
| KnT 2970 Thanne semed me ther was a parlement | 2972 |
| KnT 2982 And Theseus abiden hadde a space | 2984 |
| KnT 2985 And with a sad visage he siked stille, | 2986 |
| KnT 3005 Wel may men knowe, but it be a fool, | 3006 |
| KnT 3008 Of no partie or cantel of a thyng, | 3010 |
| KnT 3009 But of a thyng that parfit is and stable, | 3010 |
| KnT 3017 " Loo the ook, that hath so long a norisshynge | 3018 |
| KnT 3019 And hath so long a lif, as we may see, | 3020 |
| KnT 3030 He moot be deed, the kyng as shal a page; | 3032 |
| KnT 3047 And certeinly a man hath moost honour | 3048 |
| KnT 3055 Thanne is it best, as for a worthy fame, | 3056 |
| KnT 3064 Kan he hem thank? Nay, God woot, never a deel, | 3066 |
| KnT 3084 He is a kynges brother sone, pardee; | 3086 |
| KnT 3085 And though he were a povre bacheler, | 3086 |
| KnT 3086 Syn he hath served yow so many a yeer, | 3088 |
| MilT 3111 That he ne seyde it was a noble storie | 3112 |
| MilT 3126 I kan a noble tale for the nones, | 3128 |
| MilT 3134 Oure Hoost answerde, " Tel on, a devel wey! | 3136 |
| MilT 3135 Thou art a fool; thy wit is overcome. " | 3136 |
| MilT 3137 But first I make a protestacioun | 3138 |
| MilT 3141 For I wol telle a legende and a lyf | 3142 |
| MilT 3141 For I wol telle a legende and a lyf | 3142 |
| MilT 3142 Bothe of a carpenter and of his wyf, | 3144 |
| MilT 3143 How that a clerk hath set the wrightes cappe. " | 3144 |
| MilT 3146 It is a synne and eek a greet folye | 3148 |
| MilT 3146 It is a synne and eek a greet folye | 3148 |
| MilT 3155 And evere a thousand goode ayeyns oon badde. | 3156 |
| MilT 3158 I have a wyf, pardee, as wel as thow; | 3160 |
| MilT 3182 The Millere is a cherl; ye knowe wel this. | 3184 |
| MilT 3188 A riche gnof, that gestes heeld to bord, | 3190 |
| MilT 3189 And of his craft he was a carpenter. | 3190 |
| MilT 3190 With hym ther was dwellynge a poure scoler, | 3192 |
| MilT 3193 And koude a certeyn of conclusiouns, | 3194 |
| MilT 3202 And lyk a mayden meke for to see. | 3204 |
| MilT 3203 A chambre hadde he in that hostelrye | 3204 |
| MilT 3212 His presse ycovered with a faldyng reed; | 3214 |
| MilT 3213 And al above ther lay a gay sautrie, | 3214 |
| MilT 3221 This carpenter hadde wedded newe a wyf, | 3222 |
| MilT 3226 And demed hymself been lik a cokewold. | 3228 |
| MilT 3235 A ceynt she werede, barred al of silk, | 3236 |
| MilT 3236 A barmclooth as whit as morne milk | 3238 |
| MilT 3237 Upon hir lendes, ful of many a goore. | 3238 |
| MilT 3244 And sikerly she hadde a likerous ye; | 3246 |
| MilT 3249 And softer than the wolle is of a wether. | 3250 |
| MilT 3250 And by hir girdel heeng a purs of lether, | 3252 |
| MilT 3254 So gay a popelote or swich a wenche. | 3256 |
| MilT 3254 So gay a popelote or swich a wenche. | 3256 |
| MilT 3258 As any swalwe sittynge on a berne. | 3260 |
| MilT 3263 Wynsynge she was, as is a joly colt, | 3264 |
| MilT 3264 Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. | 3266 |
| MilT 3264 Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. | 3266 |
| MilT 3265 A brooch she baar upon hir lowe coler, | 3266 |
| MilT 3266 As brood as is the boos of a bokeler. | 3268 |
| MilT 3268 She was a prymerole, a piggesnye, | 3270 |
| MilT 3268 She was a prymerole, a piggesnye, | 3270 |
| MilT 3272 That on a day this hende Nicholas | 3274 |
| MilT 3282 And she sproong as a colt dooth in the trave, | 3284 |
| MilT 3299 " A clerk hadde litherly biset his whyle, | 3300 |
| MilT 3300 But if he koude a carpenter bigyle. " | 3302 |
| MilT 3302 To wayte a tyme, as I have told biforn. | 3304 |
| MilT 3312 Now was ther of that chirche a parissh clerk, | 3314 |
| MilT 3315 And strouted as a fanne large and brode; | 3316 |
| MilT 3321 Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget; | 3322 |
| MilT 3321 Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget; | 3322 |
| MilT 3323 And therupon he hadde a gay surplys | 3324 |
| MilT 3325 A myrie child he was, so God me save. | 3326 |
| MilT 3327 And maken a chartre of lond or acquitaunce. | 3328 |
| MilT 3331 And pleyen songes on a smal rubible; | 3332 |
| MilT 3332 Therto he song som tyme a loud quynyble; | 3334 |
| MilT 3333 And as wel koude he pleye on a giterne. | 3334 |
| MilT 3340 Gooth with a sencer on the haliday, | 3342 |
| MilT 3342 And many a lovely look on hem he caste, | 3344 |
| MilT 3344 To looke on hire hym thoughte a myrie lyf, | 3346 |
| MilT 3346 I dar wel seyn, if she hadde been a mous, | 3348 |
| MilT 3347 And he a cat, he wolde hire hente anon. | 3348 |
| MilT 3349 Hath in his herte swich a love-longynge | 3350 |
| MilT 3357 A litel after cokkes hadde ycrowe, | 3358 |
| MilT 3358 And dressed hym up by a shot-wyndowe | 3360 |
| MilT 3377 He syngeth, brokkynge as a nyghtyngale; | 3378 |
| MilT 3384 He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye. | 3386 |
| MilT 3388 He ne hadde for his labour but a scorn. | 3390 |
| MilT 3390 And al his ernest turneth til a jape. | 3392 |
| MilT 3399 And so bifel it on a Saterday, | 3400 |
| MilT 3403 That Nicholas shal shapen hym a wyle | 3404 |
| MilT 3411 Bothe mete and drynke for a day or tweye, | 3412 |
| MilT 3429 I saugh today a cors yborn to chirche | 3430 |
| MilT 3432 " Clepe at his dore, or knokke with a stoon. | 3434 |
| MilT 3439 But al for noght; he herde nat a word. | 3440 |
| MilT 3440 An hole he foond, ful lowe upon a bord, | 3442 |
| MilT 3443 And at the laste he hadde of hym a sight. | 3444 |
| MilT 3450 A man woot litel what hym shal bityde. | 3452 |
| MilT 3455 Ye, blessed be alwey a lewed man | 3456 |
| MilT 3460 Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle; | 3462 |
| MilT 3465 Get me a staf, that I may underspore, | 3466 |
| MilT 3469 His knave was a strong carl for the nones, | 3470 |
| MilT 3497 And broghte of myghty ale a large quart; | 3498 |
| MilT 3516 That now a Monday next, at quarter nyght, | 3518 |
| MilT 3517 Shal falle a reyn, and that so wilde and wood | 3518 |
| MilT 3543 That she hadde had a ship hirself allone. | 3544 |
| MilT 3548 A knedyng trogh, or ellis a kymelyn, | 3550 |
| MilT 3548 A knedyng trogh, or ellis a kymelyn, | 3550 |
| MilT 3550 In which we mowe swymme as in a barge, | 3552 |
| MilT 3552 But for a day -- fy on the remenant! | 3554 |
| MilT 3560 To han as greet a grace as Noe hadde. | 3562 |
| MilT 3586 That noon of us ne speke nat a word, | 3588 |
| MilT 3611 Lo, which a greet thyng is affeccioun! | 3612 |
| MilT 3619 He siketh with ful many a sory swogh; | 3620 |
| MilT 3620 He gooth and geteth hym a knedyng trogh, | 3622 |
| MilT 3621 And after that a tubbe and a kymelyn, | 3622 |
| MilT 3621 And after that a tubbe and a kymelyn, | 3622 |
| MilT 3628 With breed, and chese, and good ale in a jubbe, | 3630 |
| MilT 3629 Suffisynge right ynogh as for a day. | 3630 |
| MilT 3637 They seten stille wel a furlong way. | 3638 |
| MilT 3661 And axed upon cas a cloisterer | 3662 |
| MilT 3668 And dwellen at the grange a day or two; | 3670 |
| MilT 3683 That is a signe of kissyng atte leeste. | 3684 |
| MilT 3684 Al nyght me mette eek I was at a feeste. | 3686 |
| MilT 3692 Under his tonge a trewe-love he beer, | 3694 |
| MilT 3697 And softe he cougheth with a semy soun: | 3698 |
| MilT 3704 I moorne as dooth a lamb after the tete. | 3706 |
| MilT 3706 That lik a turtel trewe is my moornynge. | 3708 |
| MilT 3707 I may nat ete na moore than a mayde. " | 3708 |
| MilT 3712 Go forth thy wey, or I wol caste a ston, | 3714 |
| MilT 3713 And lat me slepe, a twenty devel wey! " | 3714 |
| MilT 3724 And seyde, " I am a lord at alle degrees; | 3726 |
| MilT 3737 For wel he wiste a womman hath no berd. | 3738 |
| MilT 3738 He felte a thyng al rough and long yherd, | 3740 |
| MilT 3741 And Absolon gooth forth a sory pas. | 3742 |
| MilT 3742 " A berd! A berd! " quod hende Nicholas, | 3744 |
| MilT 3742 " A berd! A berd! " quod hende Nicholas, | 3744 |
| MilT 3756 Of paramours he sette nat a kers, | 3758 |
| MilT 3759 And weep as dooth a child that is ybete. | 3760 |
| MilT 3760 A softe paas he wente over the strete | 3762 |
| MilT 3761 Until a smyth men cleped daun Gerveys, | 3762 |
| MilT 3772 This Absolon ne roghte nat a bene | 3774 |
| MilT 3780 Or in a poke nobles alle untold, | 3782 |
| MilT 3791 That knokketh so? I warante it a theef. " | 3792 |
| MilT 3794 Of gold, " quod he, " I have thee broght a ryng. | 3796 |
| MilT 3806 This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart | 3808 |
| MilT 3807 As greet as it had been a thonder-dent, | 3808 |
| MilT 3842 And turned al his harm unto a jape. | 3844 |
| RvT 3862 A litel ire is in his herte ylaft; | 3864 |
| RvT 3863 He gan to grucche, and blamed it a lite. | 3864 |
| RvT 3865 With bleryng of a proud milleres ye, | 3866 |
| RvT 3877 For in oure wyl ther stiketh evere a nayl, | 3878 |
| RvT 3878 To have an hoor heed and a grene tayl, | 3880 |
| RvT 3879 As hath a leek; for thogh oure myght be goon, | 3880 |
| RvT 3888 And yet ik have alwey a coltes tooth, | 3890 |
| RvT 3889 As many a yeer as it is passed henne | 3890 |
| RvT 3900 He gan to speke as lordly as a kyng. | 3902 |
| RvT 3903 The devel made a reve for to preche, | 3904 |
| RvT 3904 Or of a soutere a shipman or a leche. | 3906 |
| RvT 3904 Or of a soutere a shipman or a leche. | 3906 |
| RvT 3904 Or of a soutere a shipman or a leche. | 3906 |
| RvT 3907 Lo Grenewych, ther many a shrewe is inne! | 3908 |
| RvT 3914 How that bigyled was a carpenteer, | 3916 |
| RvT 3919 He kan wel in myn eye seen a stalke, | 3920 |
| RvT 3920 But in his owene he kan nat seen a balke. " | 3922 |
| MLT 25 Wel kan Senec and many a philosophre | 3946 |
| MLT 34 Telle us a tale anon, as forward is. | 3956 |
| MLT 43 For swich lawe as a man yeveth another wight, | 3964 |
| MLT 50 Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man; | 3972 |
| MLT 84 That is so horrible a tale for to rede, | 4006 |
| MLT 94 But nathelees, I recche noght a bene | 4016 |
| MLT 97 And with that word he, with a sobre cheere, | 4018 |
| MLT 132 Nere that a marchant, goon is many a yeere, | 4054 |
| MLT 132 Nere that a marchant, goon is many a yeere, | 4054 |
| MLT 133 Me taughte a tale, which that ye shal heere. | 4054 |
| MLT 134 In Surrye whilom dwelte a compaignye | 4056 |
| MLT 149 A certein tyme, as fil to hire plesance. | 4070 |
| MLT 157 A doghter hath that, syn the world bigan, | 4078 |
| MLT 197 In sterres, many a wynter therbiforn, | 4118 |
| MLT 208 To han Custance withinne a litel space, | 4130 |
| MLT 213 Many a subtil resoun forth they leyden; | 4134 |
| MLT 251 May no man tellen in a litel clause | 4172 |
| MLT 252 As was arrayed for so heigh a cause. | 4174 |
| MLT 314 Noght whan a roote is of a burthe yknowe? | 4236 |
| MLT 314 Noght whan a roote is of a burthe yknowe? | 4236 |
| MLT 352 Coold water shal nat greve us but a lite! -- | 4274 |
| MLT 353 And I shal swich a feeste and revel make | 4274 |
| MLT 357 Thogh she a font-ful water with hire lede. " | 4278 |
| MLT 375 She rydeth to the Sowdan on a day, | 4296 |
| MLT 387 In Surrye, with a greet solempne route, | 4308 |
| MLT 396 Receyveth hire with also glad a cheere | 4318 |
| MLT 399 A softe paas solempnely they ryde. | 4320 |
| MLT 401 Of which that Lucan maketh swich a boost, | 4322 |
| MLT 439 And in a ship al steerelees, God woot, | 4360 |
| MLT 442 A certein tresor that she thider ladde, | 4364 |
| MLT 459 The white Lamb, that hurt was with a spere, | 4380 |
| MLT 466 On many a sory meel now may she bayte; | 4388 |
| MLT 510 That thennes wolde it noght of al a tyde; | 4432 |
| MLT 519 A maner Latyn corrupt was hir speche, | 4440 |
| MLT 537 In orisons, with many a bitter teere, | 4458 |
| MLT 557 Toward the see a furlong wey or two, | 4478 |
| MLT 577 But kepte it strongly many a wyntres space | 4498 |
| MLT 585 And made a yong knyght that dwelte in that toun | 4506 |
| MLT 594 And pryvely upon a nyght he crepte | 4516 |
| MLT 612 That in a ship was founden this Custance, | 4534 |
| MLT 615 Whan he saugh so benigne a creature | 4536 |
| MLT 623 That she had doon so greet a wikkednesse, | 4544 |
| MLT 628 This gentil kyng hath caught a greet motyf | 4550 |
| MLT 630 Depper in this, a trouthe for to lere. | 4552 |
| MLT 645 Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face, | 4566 |
| MLT 646 Among a prees, of hym that hath be lad | 4568 |
| MLT 648 And swich a colour in his face hath had | 4570 |
| MLT 662 " Now hastily do fecche a book, " quod he, | 4584 |
| MLT 666 A Britoun book, written with Evaungiles, | 4588 |
| MLT 670 That doun he fil atones as a stoon, | 4592 |
| MLT 673 A voys was herd in general audience, | 4594 |
| MLT 693 And thus hath Crist ymaad Custance a queene. | 4614 |
| MLT 699 Hir thoughte a despit that he sholde take | 4620 |
| MLT 700 So strange a creature unto his make. | 4622 |
| MLT 702 Maken so long a tale as of the corn. | 4624 |
| MLT 705 Who bloweth in a trumpe or in an horn? | 4626 |
| MLT 713 And leye a lite hir hoolynesse aside, | 4634 |
| MLT 715 On hire he gat a knave child anon, | 4636 |
| MLT 716 And to a bisshop, and his constable eke, | 4638 |
| MLT 722 The tyme is come a knave child she beer; | 4644 |
| MLT 724 This constable dooth forth come a messageer, | 4646 |
| MLT 745 Out of his box, whil he sleep as a swyn; | 4666 |
| MLT 751 Of so horrible a feendly creature | 4672 |
| MLT 774 Thy mynde is lorn, thou janglest as a jay, | 4696 |
| MLT 775 Thy face is turned in a newe array. | 4696 |
| MLT 798 Thre dayes and o quarter of a tyde; | 4720 |
| MLT 812 So ful of synne is many a creature? | 4734 |
| MLT 822 And Custance, with a deedly pale face, | 4744 |
| MLT 844 For which thy child was on a croys yrent. | 4766 |
| MLT 911 Doun fro the castel comth ther many a wight | 4832 |
| MLT 913 But shortly, from the castel, on a nyght, | 4834 |
| MLT 915 A theef, that hadde reneyed oure creance, | 4836 |
| MLT 949 And somtyme est, ful many a wery day, | 4870 |
| MLT 953 Now lat us stynte of Custance but a throwe, | 4874 |
| MLT 957 Doon to his doghter by a fals traytour, | 4878 |
| MLT 965 Ful many a day; but shortly -- this is th' ende -- | 4886 |
| MLT 989 Upon a day fil in swich repentance | 4910 |
| MLT 1001 As to doon any kyng a reverence. | 4922 |
| MLT 1005 And so bifel that in a day or two | 4926 |
| MLT 1020 A mooder he hath, but fader hath he noon | 4942 |
| MLT 1021 That I of woot " -- and shortly, in a stounde, | 4942 |
| MLT 1024 " So vertuous a lyvere in my lyf | 4946 |
| MLT 1027 I dar wel seyn hir hadde levere a knyf | 4948 |
| MLT 1028 Thurghout hir brest, than ben a womman wikke; | 4950 |
| MLT 1031 As possible is a creature to be. | 4952 |
| MLT 1055 And she, for sorwe, as doumb stant as a tree, | 4976 |
| MLT 1075 And swich a blisse is ther bitwix hem two | 4996 |
| MLT 1120 A thousand foold wel moore than I kan telle. | 5042 |
| MLT 1143 Whan passed was a yeer, evene as I gesse, | 5064 |
| GP 19 Bifil that in that seson on a day, | 5102 |
| GP 24 Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye | 5108 |
| GP 42 And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne. | 5126 |
| GP 43 A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, | 5126 |
| GP 43 A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, | 5126 |
| GP 60 At many a noble armee hadde he be. | 5144 |
| GP 67 And everemoore he hadde a sovereyn prys. | 5150 |
| GP 69 And of his port as meeke as is a mayde. | 5152 |
| GP 72 He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght. | 5156 |
| GP 75 Of fustian he wered a gypon | 5158 |
| GP 79 With hym ther was his sone, a yong SQUIER, | 5162 |
| GP 80 A lovyere and a lusty bacheler, | 5164 |
| GP 80 A lovyere and a lusty bacheler, | 5164 |
| GP 89 Embrouded was he, as it were a meede | 5172 |
| GP 98 He sleep namoore than dooth a nyghtyngale. | 5182 |
| GP 101 A YEMAN hadde he and servantz namo | 5184 |
| GP 104 A sheef of pecok arwes, bright and kene, | 5188 |
| GP 108 And in his hand he baar a myghty bowe. | 5192 |
| GP 109 A not heed hadde he, with a broun visage. | 5192 |
| GP 109 A not heed hadde he, with a broun visage. | 5192 |
| GP 111 Upon his arm he baar a gay bracer, | 5194 |
| GP 112 And by his syde a swerd and a bokeler, | 5196 |
| GP 112 And by his syde a swerd and a bokeler, | 5196 |
| GP 113 And on that oother syde a gay daggere | 5196 |
| GP 115 A Cristopher on his brest of silver sheene. | 5198 |
| GP 117 A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse. | 5200 |
| GP 118 Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, | 5202 |
| GP 118 Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, | 5202 |
| GP 130 Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe | 5214 |
| GP 144 She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous | 5228 |
| GP 145 Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. | 5228 |
| GP 149 Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte; | 5232 |
| GP 154 But sikerly she hadde a fair forheed; | 5238 |
| GP 155 It was almoost a spanne brood, I trowe; | 5238 |
| GP 159 A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene, | 5242 |
| GP 160 And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene, | 5244 |
| GP 161 On which ther was first write a crowned A, | 5244 |
| GP 161 On which ther was first write a crowned A, | 5244 |
| GP 165 A MONK ther was, a fair for the maistrie, | 5248 |
| GP 165 A MONK ther was, a fair for the maistrie, | 5248 |
| GP 167 A manly man, to been an abbot able. | 5250 |
| GP 168 Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable, | 5252 |
| GP 170 Gynglen in a whistlynge wynd als cleere | 5254 |
| GP 177 He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, | 5260 |
| GP 179 Ne that a monk, whan he is recchelees, | 5262 |
| GP 180 Is likned til a fissh that is waterlees -- | 5264 |
| GP 181 This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre. | 5264 |
| GP 185 Upon a book in cloystre alwey to poure, | 5268 |
| GP 189 Therfore he was a prikasour aright: | 5272 |
| GP 194 With grys, and that the fyneste of a lond; | 5278 |
| GP 196 He hadde of gold ywroght a ful curious pyn; | 5280 |
| GP 197 A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. | 5280 |
| GP 200 He was a lord ful fat and in good poynt; | 5284 |
| GP 202 That stemed as a forneys of a leed; | 5286 |
| GP 202 That stemed as a forneys of a leed; | 5286 |
| GP 204 Now certeinly he was a fair prelaat; | 5288 |
| GP 205 He was nat pale as a forpyned goost. | 5288 |
| GP 206 A fat swan loved he best of any roost. | 5290 |
| GP 207 His palfrey was as broun as is a berye. | 5290 |
| GP 208 A FRERE ther was, a wantowne and a merye, | 5292 |
| GP 208 A FRERE ther was, a wantowne and a merye, | 5292 |
| GP 208 A FRERE ther was, a wantowne and a merye, | 5292 |
| GP 209 A lymytour, a ful solempne man. | 5292 |
| GP 209 A lymytour, a ful solempne man. | 5292 |
| GP 212 He hadde maad ful many a mariage | 5296 |
| GP 214 Unto his ordre he was a noble post. | 5298 |
| GP 219 As seyde hymself, moore than a curat, | 5302 |
| GP 224 Ther as he wiste to have a good pitaunce. | 5308 |
| GP 225 For unto a povre ordre for to yive | 5308 |
| GP 226 Is signe that a man is wel yshryve; | 5310 |
| GP 228 He wiste that a man was repentaunt; | 5312 |
| GP 229 For many a man so hard is of his herte, | 5312 |
| GP 235 And certeinly he hadde a murye note: | 5318 |
| GP 236 Wel koude he synge and pleyen on a rote; | 5320 |
| GP 239 Therto he strong was as a champioun. | 5322 |
| GP 242 Bet than a lazar or a beggestere, | 5326 |
| GP 242 Bet than a lazar or a beggestere, | 5326 |
| GP 243 For unto swich a worthy man as he | 5326 |
| GP 252a [And yaf a certeyn ferme for the graunt; | 5336 |
| GP 253 For thogh a wydwe hadde noght a sho, | 5338 |
| GP 253 For thogh a wydwe hadde noght a sho, | 5338 |
| GP 255 Yet wolde he have a ferthyng, er he wente. | 5340 |
| GP 257 And rage he koude, as it were right a whelp. | 5342 |
| GP 259 For ther he was nat lyk a cloysterer | 5344 |
| GP 260 With a thredbare cope, as is a povre scoler, | 5346 |
| GP 260 With a thredbare cope, as is a povre scoler, | 5346 |
| GP 261 But he was lyk a maister or a pope. | 5346 |
| GP 261 But he was lyk a maister or a pope. | 5346 |
| GP 263 That rounded as a belle out of the presse. | 5348 |
| GP 270 A MARCHANT was ther with a forked berd, | 5356 |
| GP 270 A MARCHANT was ther with a forked berd, | 5356 |
| GP 272 Upon his heed a Flaundryssh bever hat, | 5358 |
| GP 283 For sothe he was a worthy man with alle, | 5368 |
| GP 285 A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, | 5370 |
| GP 287 As leene was his hors as is a rake, | 5372 |
| GP 297 But al be that he was a philosophre, | 5382 |
| GP 309 A SERGEANT OF THE LAWE, war and wys, | 5394 |
| GP 318 So greet a purchasour was nowher noon: | 5404 |
| GP 321 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, | 5406 |
| GP 325 Therto he koude endite and make a thyng, | 5410 |
| GP 328 He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote, | 5414 |
| GP 329 Girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale; | 5414 |
| GP 331 A FRANKELEYN was in his compaignye. | 5416 |
| GP 334 Wel loved he by the morwe a sop in wyn; | 5420 |
| GP 339 An housholdere, and that a greet, was he; | 5424 |
| GP 342 A bettre envyned man was nowher noon. | 5428 |
| GP 349 Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in muwe, | 5434 |
| GP 350 And many a breem and many a luce in stuwe. | 5436 |
| GP 350 And many a breem and many a luce in stuwe. | 5436 |
| GP 357 An anlaas and a gipser al of silk | 5442 |
| GP 359 A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. | 5444 |
| GP 359 A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. | 5444 |
| GP 360 Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour. | 5446 |
| GP 361 AN HABERDASSHERE and a CARPENTER, | 5446 |
| GP 362 A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER -- | 5448 |
| GP 362 A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER -- | 5448 |
| GP 362 A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER -- | 5448 |
| GP 364 Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee. | 5450 |
| GP 364 Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee. | 5450 |
| GP 369 Wel semed ech of hem a fair burgeys | 5454 |
| GP 370 To sitten in a yeldehalle on a deys. | 5456 |
| GP 370 To sitten in a yeldehalle on a deys. | 5456 |
| GP 378 And have a mantel roialliche ybore. | 5464 |
| GP 379 A COOK they hadde with hem for the nones | 5464 |
| GP 382 Wel koude he knowe a draughte of Londoun ale. | 5468 |
| GP 384 Maken mortreux, and wel bake a pye. | 5470 |
| GP 386 That on his shyne a mormal hadde he. | 5472 |
| GP 388 A SHIPMAN was ther, wonynge fer by weste; | 5474 |
| GP 390 He rood upon a rouncy, as he kouthe, | 5476 |
| GP 391 In a gowne of faldyng to the knee. | 5476 |
| GP 392 A daggere hangynge on a laas hadde he | 5478 |
| GP 392 A daggere hangynge on a laas hadde he | 5478 |
| GP 395 And certeinly he was a good felawe. | 5480 |
| GP 396 Ful many a draughte of wyn had he ydrawe | 5482 |
| GP 406 With many a tempest hadde his berd been shake. | 5492 |
| GP 411 With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISIK; | 5496 |
| GP 415 He kepte his pacient a ful greet deel | 5500 |
| GP 422 He was a verray, parfit praktisour: | 5508 |
| GP 443 For gold in phisik is a cordial, | 5528 |
| GP 445 A good WIF was ther OF biside BATHE, | 5530 |
| GP 455 That on a Sonday weren upon hir heed. | 5540 |
| GP 459 She was a worthy womman al hir lyve: | 5544 |
| GP 464 She hadde passed many a straunge strem; | 5550 |
| GP 471 As brood as is a bokeler or a targe; | 5556 |
| GP 471 As brood as is a bokeler or a targe; | 5556 |
| GP 472 A foot-mantel aboute hir hipes large, | 5558 |
| GP 473 And on hir feet a paire of spores sharpe. | 5558 |
| GP 477 A good man was ther of religioun, | 5562 |
| GP 478 And was a povre PERSOUN OF A TOUN, | 5564 |
| GP 478 And was a povre PERSOUN OF A TOUN, | 5564 |
| GP 480 He was also a lerned man, a clerk, | 5566 |
| GP 480 He was also a lerned man, a clerk, | 5566 |
| GP 495 Upon his feet, and in his hand a staf. | 5580 |
| GP 501 For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, | 5586 |
| GP 502 No wonder is a lewed man to ruste; | 5588 |
| GP 503 And shame it is, if a prest take keep, | 5588 |
| GP 504 A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. | 5590 |
| GP 504 A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. | 5590 |
| GP 505 Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, | 5590 |
| GP 510 To seken hym a chaunterie for soules, | 5596 |
| GP 511 Or with a bretherhed to been withholde; | 5596 |
| GP 514 He was a shepherde and noght a mercenarie. | 5600 |
| GP 514 He was a shepherde and noght a mercenarie. | 5600 |
| GP 524 A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon ys. | 5610 |
| GP 526 Ne maked him a spiced conscience, | 5612 |
| GP 529 With hym ther was a PLOWMAN, was his brother, | 5614 |
| GP 530 That hadde ylad of dong ful many a fother; | 5616 |
| GP 531 A trewe swynkere and a good was he, | 5616 |
| GP 531 A trewe swynkere and a good was he, | 5616 |
| GP 541 In a tabard he rood upon a mere. | 5626 |
| GP 541 In a tabard he rood upon a mere. | 5626 |
| GP 542 Ther was also a REVE, and a MILLERE, | 5628 |
| GP 542 Ther was also a REVE, and a MILLERE, | 5628 |
| GP 543 A SOMNOUR, and a PARDONER also, | 5628 |
| GP 543 A SOMNOUR, and a PARDONER also, | 5628 |
| GP 544 A MAUNCIPLE, and myself -- ther were namo. | 5630 |
| GP 545 The MILLERE was a stout carl for the nones; | 5630 |
| GP 549 He was short-sholdred, brood, a thikke knarre; | 5634 |
| GP 551 Or breke it at a rennyng with his heed. | 5636 |
| GP 553 And therto brood, as though it were a spade. | 5638 |
| GP 555 A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys, | 5640 |
| GP 555 A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys, | 5640 |
| GP 556 Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys; | 5642 |
| GP 558 A swerd and a bokeler bar he by his syde. | 5644 |
| GP 558 A swerd and a bokeler bar he by his syde. | 5644 |
| GP 559 His mouth as greet was as a greet forneys. | 5644 |
| GP 560 He was a janglere and a goliardeys, | 5646 |
| GP 560 He was a janglere and a goliardeys, | 5646 |
| GP 563 And yet he hadde a thombe of gold, pardee. | 5648 |
| GP 564 A whit cote and a blew hood wered he. | 5650 |
| GP 564 A whit cote and a blew hood wered he. | 5650 |
| GP 565 A baggepipe wel koude he blowe and sowne, | 5650 |
| GP 567 A gentil MAUNCIPLE was ther of a temple, | 5652 |
| GP 567 A gentil MAUNCIPLE was ther of a temple, | 5652 |
| GP 573 Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace | 5658 |
| GP 574 That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace | 5660 |
| GP 578 Of which ther were a duszeyne in that hous | 5664 |
| GP 584 And able for to helpen al a shire | 5670 |
| GP 587 The REVE was a sclendre colerik man. | 5672 |
| GP 590 His top was dokked lyk a preest biforn. | 5676 |
| GP 592 Ylyk a staf; ther was no calf ysene. | 5678 |
| GP 593 Wel koude he kepe a gerner and a bynne; | 5678 |
| GP 593 Wel koude he kepe a gerner and a bynne; | 5678 |
| GP 612 And have a thank, and yet a cote and hood. | 5698 |
| GP 612 And have a thank, and yet a cote and hood. | 5698 |
| GP 613 In youthe he hadde lerned a good myster: | 5698 |
| GP 614 He was a wel good wrighte, a carpenter. | 5700 |
| GP 614 He was a wel good wrighte, a carpenter. | 5700 |
| GP 615 This Reve sat upon a ful good stot | 5700 |
| GP 617 A long surcote of pers upon he hade, | 5702 |
| GP 618 And by his syde he baar a rusty blade. | 5704 |
| GP 620 Biside a toun men clepen Baldeswelle. | 5706 |
| GP 621 Tukked he was as is a frere aboute, | 5706 |
| GP 623 A SOMONOUR was ther with us in that place, | 5708 |
| GP 624 That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face, | 5710 |
| GP 626 As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe, | 5712 |
| GP 639 A fewe termes hadde he, two or thre, | 5724 |
| GP 642 And eek ye knowen wel how that a jay | 5728 |
| GP 647 He was a gentil harlot and a kynde; | 5732 |
| GP 647 He was a gentil harlot and a kynde; | 5732 |
| GP 648 A bettre felawe sholde men noght fynde. | 5734 |
| GP 649 He wolde suffre for a quart of wyn | 5734 |
| GP 650 A good felawe to have his concubyn | 5736 |
| GP 651 A twelf month, and excuse hym atte fulle; | 5736 |
| GP 652 Ful prively a fynch eek koude he pulle. | 5738 |
| GP 653 And if he foond owher a good felawe, | 5738 |
| GP 656 But if a mannes soule were in his purs; | 5742 |
| GP 662 And also war hym of a Significavit. | 5748 |
| GP 666 A gerland hadde he set upon his heed, | 5752 |
| GP 668 A bokeleer hadde he maad hym of a cake. | 5754 |
| GP 668 A bokeleer hadde he maad hym of a cake. | 5754 |
| GP 669 With hym ther rood a gentil PARDONER | 5754 |
| GP 673 This Somonour bar to hym a stif burdoun; | 5758 |
| GP 674 Was nevere trompe of half so greet a soun. | 5760 |
| GP 676 But smothe it heeng as dooth a strike of flex; | 5762 |
| GP 685 A vernycle hadde he sowed upon his cappe. | 5770 |
| GP 688 A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot. | 5774 |
| GP 688 A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot. | 5774 |
| GP 691 I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare. | 5776 |
| GP 691 I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare. | 5776 |
| GP 694 For in his male he hadde a pilwe-beer, | 5780 |
| GP 696 He seyde he hadde a gobet of the seyl | 5782 |
| GP 699 He hadde a croys of latoun ful of stones, | 5784 |
| GP 700 And in a glas he hadde pigges bones. | 5786 |
| GP 702 A povre person dwellynge upon lond, | 5788 |
| GP 703 Upon a day he gat hym moore moneye | 5788 |
| GP 708 He was in chirche a noble ecclesiaste. | 5794 |
| GP 709 Wel koude he rede a lessoun or a storie, | 5794 |
| GP 709 Wel koude he rede a lessoun or a storie, | 5794 |
| GP 715 Now have I toold you soothly, in a clause, | 5800 |
| GP 731 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, | 5816 |
| GP 731 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, | 5816 |
| GP 733 Everich a word, if it be in his charge, | 5818 |
| GP 751 A semely man OURE HOOSTE was withalle | 5836 |
| GP 752 For to been a marchal in an halle. | 5838 |
| GP 753 A large man he was with eyen stepe -- | 5838 |
| GP 754 A fairer burgeys was ther noon in Chepe -- | 5840 |
| GP 757 Eek therto he was right a myrie man; | 5842 |
| GP 764 I saugh nat this yeer so myrie a compaignye | 5850 |
| GP 767 And of a myrthe I am right now bythoght, | 5852 |
| GP 774 To ride by the weye doumb as a stoon; | 5860 |
| GP 799 Shal have a soper at oure aller cost | 5884 |
| GP 815 And sette a soper at a certeyn pris, | 5900 |
| GP 815 And sette a soper at a certeyn pris, | 5900 |
| GP 824 And gadrede us togidre alle in a flok, | 5910 |
| GP 825 And forth we riden a litel moore than paas | 5910 |
| GP 854 What, welcome be the cut, a Goddes name! | 5940 |
| GP 857 And he bigan with right a myrie cheere | 5942 |
| KnT 860 Ther was a duc that highte Theseus; | 5946 |
| KnT 862 And in his tyme swich a conquerour | 5948 |
| KnT 864 Ful many a riche contree hadde he wonne; | 5950 |
| KnT 886 I have, God woot, a large feeld to ere, | 5972 |
| KnT 898 A compaignye of ladyes, tweye and tweye, | 5984 |
| KnT 900 But swich a cry and swich a wo they make | 5986 |
| KnT 900 But swich a cry and swich a wo they make | 5986 |
| KnT 913 Whan she hadde swowned with a deedly cheere, | 5998 |
| KnT 916 Victorie, and as a conqueror to lyven, | 6002 |
| KnT 923 That she ne hath been a duchesse or a queene. | 6008 |
| KnT 923 That she ne hath been a duchesse or a queene. | 6008 |
| KnT 969 Ne take his ese fully half a day, | 6054 |
| KnT 984 Faire in a feeld, ther as he thoughte to fighte. | 6070 |
| KnT 987 He faught, and slough hym manly as a knyght | 6072 |
| KnT 1010 Thurgh-girt with many a grevous blody wounde, | 6096 |
| KnT 1027 With laurer crowned as a conquerour; | 6112 |
| KnT 1030 And in a tour, in angwissh and in wo, | 6116 |
| KnT 1034 Till it fil ones, in a morwe of May, | 6120 |
| KnT 1049 Hir yelow heer was broyded in a tresse | 6134 |
| KnT 1050 Bihynde hir bak, a yerde long, I gesse. | 6136 |
| KnT 1054 To make a subtil gerland for hire hede; | 6140 |
| KnT 1065 Was risen and romed in a chambre an heigh, | 6150 |
| KnT 1075 That thurgh a wyndow, thikke of many a barre | 6160 |
| KnT 1075 That thurgh a wyndow, thikke of many a barre | 6160 |
| KnT 1078 And therwithal he bleynte and cride, " A! " | 6164 |
| KnT 1094 Thow hast a veyn ymaginacioun. | 6180 |
| KnT 1117 And with a sigh he seyde pitously, | 6202 |
| KnT 1149 For which thou art ybounden as a knyght | 6234 |
| KnT 1157 Wheither she be a womman or goddesse! | 6242 |
| KnT 1159 And myn is love as to a creature; | 6244 |
| KnT 1164 That `who shal yeve a lovere any lawe?' | 6250 |
| KnT 1165 Love is a gretter lawe, by my pan, | 6250 |
| KnT 1169 A man moot nedes love, maugree his heed; | 6254 |
| KnT 1179 Ther cam a kyte, whil that they were so wrothe, | 6264 |
| KnT 1189 But to th' effect. It happed on a day, | 6274 |
| KnT 1191 A worthy duc that highte Perotheus, | 6276 |
| KnT 1208 In swich a gyse as I you tellen shal. | 6294 |
| KnT 1215 That with a swerd he sholde lese his heed. | 6300 |
| KnT 1219 How greet a sorwe suffreth now Arcite! | 6304 |
| KnT 1241 And art a knyght, a worthy and an able, | 6326 |
| KnT 1241 And art a knyght, a worthy and an able, | 6326 |
| KnT 1253 That yeveth hem ful ofte in many a gyse | 6338 |
| KnT 1261 We faren as he that dronke is as a mous. | 6346 |
| KnT 1262 A dronke man woot wel he hath an hous, | 6348 |
| KnT 1264 And to a dronke man the wey is slider. | 6350 |
| KnT 1269 That wende and hadde a greet opinioun | 6354 |
| KnT 1287 And make a werre so sharp on this citee | 6372 |
| KnT 1293 And art a lord, greet is thyn avauntage | 6378 |
| KnT 1294 Moore than is myn, that sterve here in a cage. | 6380 |
| KnT 1318 Ther as a beest may al his lust fulfille. | 6404 |
| KnT 1319 And whan a beest is deed he hath no peyne; | 6404 |
| KnT 1325 Allas, I se a serpent or a theef, | 6410 |
| KnT 1325 Allas, I se a serpent or a theef, | 6410 |
| KnT 1326 That many a trewe man hath doon mescheef, | 6412 |
| KnT 1334 Now wol I stynte of Palamon a lite, | 6420 |
| KnT 1356 Ful ofte a day he swelte and seyde " Allas! " | 6442 |
| KnT 1362 That lene he wex and drye as is a shaft; | 6448 |
| KnT 1381 Whan he endured hadde a yeer or two | 6466 |
| KnT 1384 Upon a nyght in sleep as he hym leyde, | 6470 |
| KnT 1399 And with that word he caughte a greet mirour, | 6484 |
| KnT 1409 And cladde hym as a povre laborer, | 6494 |
| KnT 1410 And al allone, save oonly a squier | 6496 |
| KnT 1414 And to the court he wente upon a day, | 6500 |
| KnT 1418 He fil in office with a chamberleyn | 6504 |
| KnT 1426 A yeer or two he was in this servyse, | 6512 |
| KnT 1429 But half so wel biloved a man as he | 6514 |
| KnT 1433 They seyden that it were a charitee | 6518 |
| KnT 1437 And thus withinne a while his name is spronge, | 6522 |
| KnT 1440 That of his chambre he made hym a squier, | 6526 |
| KnT 1450 And speke I wole of Palamon a lite. | 6536 |
| KnT 1457 And eek therto he is a prisoner | 6542 |
| KnT 1458 Perpetuelly, noght oonly for a yer. | 6544 |
| KnT 1466 As, whan a thyng is shapen, it shal be -- | 6552 |
| KnT 1468 By helpyng of a freend, brak his prisoun | 6554 |
| KnT 1471 Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, | 6556 |
| KnT 1471 Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, | 6556 |
| KnT 1478 And til a grove faste ther bisyde | 6564 |
| KnT 1502 He on a courser, startlynge as the fir, | 6588 |
| KnT 1504 Out of the court, were it a myle or tweye. | 6590 |
| KnT 1507 To maken hym a gerland of the greves, | 6592 |
| KnT 1513 And from his courser, with a lusty herte, | 6598 |
| KnT 1515 And in a path he rometh up and doun, | 6600 |
| KnT 1517 Was in a bussh, that no man myghte hym se, | 6602 |
| KnT 1523 It is ful fair a man to bere hym evene, | 6608 |
| KnT 1530 Into a studie he fil sodeynly, | 6616 |
| KnT 1533 Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle. | 6618 |
| KnT 1558 Now highte I Philostrate, noght worth a myte. | 6644 |
| KnT 1570 Ne sette I nat the montance of a tare, | 6656 |
| KnT 1572 And with that word he fil doun in a traunce | 6658 |
| KnT 1573 A longe tyme, and after he up sterte. | 6658 |
| KnT 1575 He felte a coold swerd sodeynliche glyde, | 6660 |
| KnT 1608 But for as muche thou art a worthy knyght | 6694 |
| KnT 1612 That heere I wol be founden as a knyght, | 6698 |
| KnT 1639 That stondeth at the gappe with a spere, | 6724 |
| KnT 1656 In his fightyng were a wood leon, | 6742 |
| KnT 1657 And as a crueel tigre was Arcite; | 6742 |
| KnT 1667 The contrarie of a thyng by ye or nay, | 6752 |
| KnT 1668 Yet somtyme it shal fallen on a day | 6754 |
| KnT 1669 That falleth nat eft withinne a thousand yeer. | 6754 |
| KnT 1693 And over a brook, and so forth on his weye. | 6778 |
| KnT 1694 This duc wol han a cours at hym or tweye | 6780 |
| KnT 1705 And at a stert he was bitwix hem two, | 6790 |
| KnT 1706 And pulled out a swerd and cride, " Hoo! | 6792 |
| KnT 1713 As it were in a lystes roially. " | 6798 |
| KnT 1719 And as thou art a rightful lord and juge, | 6804 |
| KnT 1729 Thus hath he japed thee ful many a yer, | 6814 |
| KnT 1743 And seyde, " This is a short conclusioun. | 6828 |
| KnT 1752 That evere swich a chaunce sholde falle, | 6838 |
| KnT 1763 He hath considered shortly, in a clause, | 6848 |
| KnT 1774 Upon a lord that wol have no mercy, | 6860 |
| KnT 1775 But been a leon, bothe in word and dede, | 6860 |
| KnT 1777 As wel as to a proud despitous man | 6862 |
| KnT 1785 " The god of love, a benedicite! | 6870 |
| KnT 1786 How myghty and how greet a lord is he! | 6872 |
| KnT 1788 He may be cleped a god for his myracles, | 6874 |
| KnT 1799 Who may been a fool but if he love? | 6884 |
| KnT 1810 By God, than woot a cokkow or an hare! | 6896 |
| KnT 1812 A man moot ben a fool, or yong or oold -- | 6898 |
| KnT 1812 A man moot ben a fool, or yong or oold -- | 6898 |
| KnT 1814 For in my tyme a servant was I oon. | 6900 |
| KnT 1816 And woot hou soore it kan a man distreyne, | 6902 |
| KnT 1830 Though that she were a queene or a princesse, | 6916 |
| KnT 1830 Though that she were a queene or a princesse, | 6916 |
| KnT 1855 Upon my trouthe, and as I am a knyght, | 6940 |
| KnT 1861 To whom that Fortune yeveth so fair a grace. | 6946 |
| KnT 1874 Whan Theseus hath doon so fair a grace? | 6960 |
| KnT 1885 That swich a noble theatre as it was | 6970 |
| KnT 1887 The circuit a myle was aboute, | 6972 |
| KnT 1891 That whan a man was set on o degree, | 6976 |
| KnT 1893 Estward ther stood a gate of marbul whit, | 6978 |
| KnT 1895 And shortly to concluden, swich a place | 6980 |
| KnT 1908 That coste largely of gold a fother. | 6994 |
| KnT 1909 And northward, in a touret on the wal, | 6994 |
| KnT 1929 That wered of yelewe gooldes a gerland, | 7014 |
| KnT 1930 And a cokkow sittynge on hir hand; | 7016 |
| KnT 1954 And though I koude rekene a thousand mo. | 7040 |
| KnT 1959 A citole in hir right hand hadde she, | 7044 |
| KnT 1961 A rose gerland, fressh and wel smellynge; | 7046 |
| KnT 1966 A bowe he bar and arwes brighte and kene. | 7052 |
| KnT 1975 First on the wal was peynted a forest, | 7060 |
| KnT 1979 In which ther ran a rumbel in a swough, | 7064 |
| KnT 1979 In which ther ran a rumbel in a swough, | 7064 |
| KnT 1980 As though a storm sholde bresten every bough. | 7066 |
| KnT 1981 And dounward from an hille, under a bente, | 7066 |
| KnT 1985 And therout came a rage and swich a veze | 7070 |
| KnT 1985 And therout came a rage and swich a veze | 7070 |
| KnT 2014 A thousand slayn, and nat of qualm ystorve; | 7100 |
| KnT 2027 And al above, depeynted in a tour, | 7112 |
| KnT 2030 Hangynge by a soutil twynes threed. | 7116 |
| KnT 2041 The statue of Mars upon a carte stood | 7126 |
| KnT 2047 A wolf ther stood biforn hym at his feet | 7132 |
| KnT 2048 With eyen rede, and of a man he eet; | 7134 |
| KnT 2058 Was turned from a womman til a bere, | 7144 |
| KnT 2058 Was turned from a womman til a bere, | 7144 |
| KnT 2061 Hir sone is eek a sterre, as men may see. | 7146 |
| KnT 2062 Ther saugh I Dane, yturned til a tree -- | 7148 |
| KnT 2069 Yet peynted was a litel forther moor | 7154 |
| KnT 2077 And undernethe hir feet she hadde a moone -- | 7162 |
| KnT 2080 With bowe in honde and arwes in a cas. | 7166 |
| KnT 2083 A womman travaillynge was hire biforn; | 7168 |
| KnT 2088 With many a floryn he the hewes boghte. | 7174 |
| KnT 2093 But stynte I wole of Theseus a lite, | 7178 |
| KnT 2101 And sikerly ther trowed many a man | 7186 |
| KnT 2105 Nas of so fewe so noble a compaignye. | 7190 |
| KnT 2107 And wolde, his thankes, han a passant name, | 7192 |
| KnT 2110 For if ther fille tomorwe swich a cas, | 7196 |
| KnT 2115 To fighte for a lady, benedicitee! | 7200 |
| KnT 2116 It were a lusty sighte for to see. | 7202 |
| KnT 2120 And in a brestplate and a light gypoun; | 7206 |
| KnT 2120 And in a brestplate and a light gypoun; | 7206 |
| KnT 2121 And som wol have a paire plates large; | 7206 |
| KnT 2122 And som wol have a Pruce sheeld or a targe; | 7208 |
| KnT 2122 And som wol have a Pruce sheeld or a targe; | 7208 |
| KnT 2124 And have an ax, and som a mace of steel -- | 7210 |
| KnT 2133 And lik a grifphon looked he aboute, | 7218 |
| KnT 2138 Ful hye upon a chaar of gold stood he, | 7224 |
| KnT 2142 He hadde a beres skyn, col-blak for old. | 7228 |
| KnT 2145 A wrethe of gold, arm-greet, of huge wighte, | 7230 |
| KnT 2157 Upon a steede bay trapped in steel, | 7242 |
| KnT 2163 A mantelet upon his shulder hangynge, | 7248 |
| KnT 2169 A fewe frakenes in his face yspreynd, | 7254 |
| KnT 2171 And as a leon he his lookyng caste. | 7256 |
| KnT 2174 His voys was as a trompe thonderynge. | 7260 |
| KnT 2176 A gerland, fressh and lusty for to sene. | 7262 |
| KnT 2186 Ful many a tame leon and leopart. | 7272 |
| KnT 2217 And in hir houre he walketh forth a pas | 7302 |
| KnT 2255 Thanne preye I thee, tomorwe with a spere | 7340 |
| KnT 2266 And made a signe, wherby that he took | 7352 |
| KnT 2268 For thogh the signe shewed a delay, | 7354 |
| KnT 2283 Hir body wessh with water of a welle. | 7368 |
| KnT 2286 And yet it were a game to heeren al. | 7372 |
| KnT 2288 But it is good a man been at his large. | 7374 |
| KnT 2290 A coroune of a grene ook cerial | 7376 |
| KnT 2290 A coroune of a grene ook cerial | 7376 |
| KnT 2301 Ful many a yeer, and woost what I desire, | 7386 |
| KnT 2305 Desire to ben a mayden al my lyf, | 7390 |
| KnT 2308 A mayde, and love huntynge and venerye, | 7394 |
| KnT 2310 And noght to ben a wyf and be with childe. | 7396 |
| KnT 2330 And whil I lyve, a mayde I wol thee serve. " | 7416 |
| KnT 2333 But sodeynly she saugh a sighte queynte, | 7418 |
| KnT 2337 And as it queynte it made a whistelynge, | 7422 |
| KnT 2360 And forth she wente and made a vanysshynge; | 7446 |
| KnT 2388 Although thee ones on a tyme mysfille, | 7474 |
| KnT 2427 A sweete smel the ground anon up yaf, | 7512 |
| KnT 2432 And with that soun he herde a murmurynge | 7518 |
| KnT 2494 And to the paleys rood ther many a route | 7580 |
| KnT 2520 " He hath a sparth of twenty pound of wighte. " | 7606 |
| KnT 2528 Duc Theseus was at a wyndow set, | 7614 |
| KnT 2529 Arrayed right as he were a god in trone. | 7614 |
| KnT 2533 An heraud on a scaffold made an " Oo! " | 7618 |
| KnT 2549 But o cours with a sharpe ygrounde spere; | 7634 |
| KnT 2563 " God save swich a lord, that is so good | 7648 |
| KnT 2569 Ful lik a lord this noble duc gan ryde, | 7654 |
| KnT 2614 He rolleth under foot as dooth a bal; | 7700 |
| KnT 2623 Ful ofte a day han thise Thebanes two | 7708 |
| KnT 2646 Is born out of his sadel a swerdes lengthe, | 7732 |
| KnT 2660 Anon ther is a noyse of peple bigonne | 7746 |
| KnT 2674 But herkneth me, and stynteth noyse a lite, | 7760 |
| KnT 2675 Which a myracle ther bifel anon. | 7760 |
| KnT 2677 And on a courser, for to shewe his face, | 7762 |
| KnT 2680 And she agayn hym caste a freendlich ye | 7766 |
| KnT 2684 Out of the ground a furie infernal sterte, | 7770 |
| KnT 2697 And in a bed ybrought ful faire and blyve, | 7782 |
| KnT 2710 That with a spere was thirled his brest boon. | 7796 |
| KnT 2720 But as a justes or a tourneiynge; | 7806 |
| KnT 2720 But as a justes or a tourneiynge; | 7806 |
| KnT 2736 And fully heeld a feeste dayes three, | 7822 |
| KnT 2738 Out of his toun a journee largely. | 7824 |
| KnT 2784 Had strif and rancour many a day agon | 7870 |
| KnT 2787 To speken of a servaunt proprely, | 7872 |
| KnT 2796 And if that evere ye shul ben a wyf, | 7882 |
| KnT 2847 This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, | 7932 |
| KnT 2863 He wolde make a fyr in which the office | 7948 |
| KnT 2866 The okes olde, and leye hem on a rewe | 7952 |
| KnT 2871 After a beere, and it al overspradde | 7956 |
| KnT 2875 Eek on his heed a coroune of laurer grene, | 7960 |
| KnT 2876 And in his hond a swerd ful bright and kene. | 7962 |
| KnT 2897 And riden forth a paas with sorweful cheere | 7982 |
| KnT 2918 Of stree first ther was leyd ful many a lode. | 8004 |
| KnT 2934 And thanne with drye stikkes cloven a thre, | 8020 |
| KnT 2937 And gerlandes, hangynge with ful many a flour; | 8022 |
| KnT 2953 Upon the left hand, with a loud shoutynge, | 8038 |
| KnT 2970 Thanne semed me ther was a parlement | 8056 |
| KnT 2982 And Theseus abiden hadde a space | 8068 |
| KnT 2985 And with a sad visage he siked stille, | 8070 |
| KnT 3005 Wel may men knowe, but it be a fool, | 8090 |
| KnT 3008 Of no partie or cantel of a thyng, | 8094 |
| KnT 3009 But of a thyng that parfit is and stable, | 8094 |
| KnT 3017 " Loo the ook, that hath so long a norisshynge | 8102 |
| KnT 3019 And hath so long a lif, as we may see, | 8104 |
| KnT 3030 He moot be deed, the kyng as shal a page; | 8116 |
| KnT 3047 And certeinly a man hath moost honour | 8132 |
| KnT 3055 Thanne is it best, as for a worthy fame, | 8140 |
| KnT 3064 Kan he hem thank? Nay, God woot, never a deel, | 8150 |
| KnT 3084 He is a kynges brother sone, pardee; | 8170 |
| KnT 3085 And though he were a povre bacheler, | 8170 |
| KnT 3086 Syn he hath served yow so many a yeer, | 8172 |
| MilT 3111 That he ne seyde it was a noble storie | 8196 |
| MilT 3126 I kan a noble tale for the nones, | 8212 |
| MilT 3134 Oure Hoost answerde, " Tel on, a devel wey! | 8220 |
| MilT 3135 Thou art a fool; thy wit is overcome. " | 8220 |
| MilT 3137 But first I make a protestacioun | 8222 |
| MilT 3141 For I wol telle a legende and a lyf | 8226 |
| MilT 3141 For I wol telle a legende and a lyf | 8226 |
| MilT 3142 Bothe of a carpenter and of his wyf, | 8228 |
| MilT 3143 How that a clerk hath set the wrightes cappe. " | 8228 |
| MilT 3146 It is a synne and eek a greet folye | 8232 |
| MilT 3146 It is a synne and eek a greet folye | 8232 |
| MilT 3155 And evere a thousand goode ayeyns oon badde. | 8240 |
| MilT 3158 I have a wyf, pardee, as wel as thow; | 8244 |
| MilT 3182 The Millere is a cherl; ye knowe wel this. | 8268 |
| MilT 3188 A riche gnof, that gestes heeld to bord, | 8274 |
| MilT 3189 And of his craft he was a carpenter. | 8274 |
| MilT 3190 With hym ther was dwellynge a poure scoler, | 8276 |
| MilT 3193 And koude a certeyn of conclusiouns, | 8278 |
| MilT 3202 And lyk a mayden meke for to see. | 8288 |
| MilT 3203 A chambre hadde he in that hostelrye | 8288 |
| MilT 3212 His presse ycovered with a faldyng reed; | 8298 |
| MilT 3213 And al above ther lay a gay sautrie, | 8298 |
| MilT 3221 This carpenter hadde wedded newe a wyf, | 8306 |
| MilT 3226 And demed hymself been lik a cokewold. | 8312 |
| MilT 3235 A ceynt she werede, barred al of silk, | 8320 |
| MilT 3236 A barmclooth as whit as morne milk | 8322 |
| MilT 3237 Upon hir lendes, ful of many a goore. | 8322 |
| MilT 3244 And sikerly she hadde a likerous ye; | 8330 |
| MilT 3249 And softer than the wolle is of a wether. | 8334 |
| MilT 3250 And by hir girdel heeng a purs of lether, | 8336 |
| MilT 3254 So gay a popelote or swich a wenche. | 8340 |
| MilT 3254 So gay a popelote or swich a wenche. | 8340 |
| MilT 3258 As any swalwe sittynge on a berne. | 8344 |
| MilT 3263 Wynsynge she was, as is a joly colt, | 8348 |
| MilT 3264 Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. | 8350 |
| MilT 3264 Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. | 8350 |
| MilT 3265 A brooch she baar upon hir lowe coler, | 8350 |
| MilT 3266 As brood as is the boos of a bokeler. | 8352 |
| MilT 3268 She was a prymerole, a piggesnye, | 8354 |
| MilT 3268 She was a prymerole, a piggesnye, | 8354 |
| MilT 3272 That on a day this hende Nicholas | 8358 |
| MilT 3282 And she sproong as a colt dooth in the trave, | 8368 |
| MilT 3299 " A clerk hadde litherly biset his whyle, | 8384 |
| MilT 3300 But if he koude a carpenter bigyle. " | 8386 |
| MilT 3302 To wayte a tyme, as I have told biforn. | 8388 |
| MilT 3312 Now was ther of that chirche a parissh clerk, | 8398 |
| MilT 3315 And strouted as a fanne large and brode; | 8400 |
| MilT 3321 Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget; | 8406 |
| MilT 3321 Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget; | 8406 |
| MilT 3323 And therupon he hadde a gay surplys | 8408 |
| MilT 3325 A myrie child he was, so God me save. | 8410 |
| MilT 3327 And maken a chartre of lond or acquitaunce. | 8412 |
| MilT 3331 And pleyen songes on a smal rubible; | 8416 |
| MilT 3332 Therto he song som tyme a loud quynyble; | 8418 |
| MilT 3333 And as wel koude he pleye on a giterne. | 8418 |
| MilT 3340 Gooth with a sencer on the haliday, | 8426 |
| MilT 3342 And many a lovely look on hem he caste, | 8428 |
| MilT 3344 To looke on hire hym thoughte a myrie lyf, | 8430 |
| MilT 3346 I dar wel seyn, if she hadde been a mous, | 8432 |
| MilT 3347 And he a cat, he wolde hire hente anon. | 8432 |
| MilT 3349 Hath in his herte swich a love-longynge | 8434 |
| MilT 3357 A litel after cokkes hadde ycrowe, | 8442 |
| MilT 3358 And dressed hym up by a shot-wyndowe | 8444 |
| MilT 3377 He syngeth, brokkynge as a nyghtyngale; | 8462 |
| MilT 3384 He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye. | 8470 |
| MilT 3388 He ne hadde for his labour but a scorn. | 8474 |
| MilT 3390 And al his ernest turneth til a jape. | 8476 |
| MilT 3399 And so bifel it on a Saterday, | 8484 |
| MilT 3403 That Nicholas shal shapen hym a wyle | 8488 |
| MilT 3411 Bothe mete and drynke for a day or tweye, | 8496 |
| MilT 3429 I saugh today a cors yborn to chirche | 8514 |
| MilT 3432 " Clepe at his dore, or knokke with a stoon. | 8518 |
| MilT 3439 But al for noght; he herde nat a word. | 8524 |
| MilT 3440 An hole he foond, ful lowe upon a bord, | 8526 |
| MilT 3443 And at the laste he hadde of hym a sight. | 8528 |
| MilT 3450 A man woot litel what hym shal bityde. | 8536 |
| MilT 3455 Ye, blessed be alwey a lewed man | 8540 |
| MilT 3460 Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle; | 8546 |
| MilT 3465 Get me a staf, that I may underspore, | 8550 |
| MilT 3469 His knave was a strong carl for the nones, | 8554 |
| MilT 3497 And broghte of myghty ale a large quart; | 8582 |
| MilT 3516 That now a Monday next, at quarter nyght, | 8602 |
| MilT 3517 Shal falle a reyn, and that so wilde and wood | 8602 |
| MilT 3543 That she hadde had a ship hirself allone. | 8628 |
| MilT 3548 A knedyng trogh, or ellis a kymelyn, | 8634 |
| MilT 3548 A knedyng trogh, or ellis a kymelyn, | 8634 |
| MilT 3550 In which we mowe swymme as in a barge, | 8636 |
| MilT 3552 But for a day -- fy on the remenant! | 8638 |
| MilT 3560 To han as greet a grace as Noe hadde. | 8646 |
| MilT 3586 That noon of us ne speke nat a word, | 8672 |
| MilT 3611 Lo, which a greet thyng is affeccioun! | 8696 |
| MilT 3619 He siketh with ful many a sory swogh; | 8704 |
| MilT 3620 He gooth and geteth hym a knedyng trogh, | 8706 |
| MilT 3621 And after that a tubbe and a kymelyn, | 8706 |
| MilT 3621 And after that a tubbe and a kymelyn, | 8706 |
| MilT 3628 With breed, and chese, and good ale in a jubbe, | 8714 |
| MilT 3629 Suffisynge right ynogh as for a day. | 8714 |
| MilT 3637 They seten stille wel a furlong way. | 8722 |
| MilT 3661 And axed upon cas a cloisterer | 8746 |
| MilT 3668 And dwellen at the grange a day or two; | 8754 |
| MilT 3683 That is a signe of kissyng atte leeste. | 8768 |
| MilT 3684 Al nyght me mette eek I was at a feeste. | 8770 |
| MilT 3692 Under his tonge a trewe-love he beer, | 8778 |
| MilT 3697 And softe he cougheth with a semy soun: | 8782 |
| MilT 3704 I moorne as dooth a lamb after the tete. | 8790 |
| MilT 3706 That lik a turtel trewe is my moornynge. | 8792 |
| MilT 3707 I may nat ete na moore than a mayde. " | 8792 |
| MilT 3712 Go forth thy wey, or I wol caste a ston, | 8798 |
| MilT 3713 And lat me slepe, a twenty devel wey! " | 8798 |
| MilT 3724 And seyde, " I am a lord at alle degrees; | 8810 |
| MilT 3737 For wel he wiste a womman hath no berd. | 8822 |
| MilT 3738 He felte a thyng al rough and long yherd, | 8824 |
| MilT 3741 And Absolon gooth forth a sory pas. | 8826 |
| MilT 3742 " A berd! A berd! " quod hende Nicholas, | 8828 |
| MilT 3742 " A berd! A berd! " quod hende Nicholas, | 8828 |
| MilT 3756 Of paramours he sette nat a kers, | 8842 |
| MilT 3759 And weep as dooth a child that is ybete. | 8844 |
| MilT 3760 A softe paas he wente over the strete | 8846 |
| MilT 3761 Until a smyth men cleped daun Gerveys, | 8846 |
| MilT 3772 This Absolon ne roghte nat a bene | 8858 |
| MilT 3780 Or in a poke nobles alle untold, | 8866 |
| MilT 3791 That knokketh so? I warante it a theef. " | 8876 |
| MilT 3794 Of gold, " quod he, " I have thee broght a ryng. | 8880 |
| MilT 3806 This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart | 8892 |
| MilT 3807 As greet as it had been a thonder-dent, | 8892 |
| MilT 3842 And turned al his harm unto a jape. | 8928 |
| RvT 3862 A litel ire is in his herte ylaft; | 8948 |
| RvT 3863 He gan to grucche, and blamed it a lite. | 8948 |
| RvT 3865 With bleryng of a proud milleres ye, | 8950 |
| RvT 3877 For in oure wyl ther stiketh evere a nayl, | 8962 |
| RvT 3878 To have an hoor heed and a grene tayl, | 8964 |
| RvT 3879 As hath a leek; for thogh oure myght be goon, | 8964 |
| RvT 3888 And yet ik have alwey a coltes tooth, | 8974 |
| RvT 3889 As many a yeer as it is passed henne | 8974 |
| RvT 3900 He gan to speke as lordly as a kyng. | 8986 |
| RvT 3903 The devel made a reve for to preche, | 8988 |
| RvT 3904 Or of a soutere a shipman or a leche. | 8990 |
| RvT 3904 Or of a soutere a shipman or a leche. | 8990 |
| RvT 3904 Or of a soutere a shipman or a leche. | 8990 |
| RvT 3907 Lo Grenewych, ther many a shrewe is inne! | 8992 |
| RvT 3914 How that bigyled was a carpenteer, | 9000 |
| RvT 3919 He kan wel in myn eye seen a stalke, | 9004 |
| RvT 3920 But in his owene he kan nat seen a balke. " | 9006 |
| MLT 25 Wel kan Senec and many a philosophre | 9030 |
| MLT 34 Telle us a tale anon, as forward is. | 9040 |
| MLT 43 For swich lawe as a man yeveth another wight, | 9048 |
| MLT 50 Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man; | 9056 |
| MLT 84 That is so horrible a tale for to rede, | 9090 |
| MLT 94 But nathelees, I recche noght a bene | 9100 |
| MLT 97 And with that word he, with a sobre cheere, | 9102 |
| MLT 132 Nere that a marchant, goon is many a yeere, | 9138 |
| MLT 132 Nere that a marchant, goon is many a yeere, | 9138 |
| MLT 133 Me taughte a tale, which that ye shal heere. | 9138 |
| MLT 134 In Surrye whilom dwelte a compaignye | 9140 |
| MLT 149 A certein tyme, as fil to hire plesance. | 9154 |
| MLT 157 A doghter hath that, syn the world bigan, | 9162 |
| MLT 197 In sterres, many a wynter therbiforn, | 9202 |
| MLT 208 To han Custance withinne a litel space, | 9214 |
| MLT 213 Many a subtil resoun forth they leyden; | 9218 |
| MLT 251 May no man tellen in a litel clause | 9256 |
| MLT 252 As was arrayed for so heigh a cause. | 9258 |
| MLT 314 Noght whan a roote is of a burthe yknowe? | 9320 |
| MLT 314 Noght whan a roote is of a burthe yknowe? | 9320 |
| MLT 352 Coold water shal nat greve us but a lite! -- | 9358 |
| MLT 353 And I shal swich a feeste and revel make | 9358 |
| MLT 357 Thogh she a font-ful water with hire lede. " | 9362 |
| MLT 375 She rydeth to the Sowdan on a day, | 9380 |
| MLT 387 In Surrye, with a greet solempne route, | 9392 |
| MLT 396 Receyveth hire with also glad a cheere | 9402 |
| MLT 399 A softe paas solempnely they ryde. | 9404 |
| MLT 401 Of which that Lucan maketh swich a boost, | 9406 |
| MLT 439 And in a ship al steerelees, God woot, | 9444 |
| MLT 442 A certein tresor that she thider ladde, | 9448 |
| MLT 459 The white Lamb, that hurt was with a spere, | 9464 |
| MLT 466 On many a sory meel now may she bayte; | 9472 |
| MLT 510 That thennes wolde it noght of al a tyde; | 9516 |
| MLT 519 A maner Latyn corrupt was hir speche, | 9524 |
| MLT 537 In orisons, with many a bitter teere, | 9542 |
| MLT 557 Toward the see a furlong wey or two, | 9562 |
| MLT 577 But kepte it strongly many a wyntres space | 9582 |
| MLT 585 And made a yong knyght that dwelte in that toun | 9590 |
| MLT 594 And pryvely upon a nyght he crepte | 9600 |
| MLT 612 That in a ship was founden this Custance, | 9618 |
| MLT 615 Whan he saugh so benigne a creature | 9620 |
| MLT 623 That she had doon so greet a wikkednesse, | 9628 |
| MLT 628 This gentil kyng hath caught a greet motyf | 9634 |
| MLT 630 Depper in this, a trouthe for to lere. | 9636 |
| MLT 645 Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face, | 9650 |
| MLT 646 Among a prees, of hym that hath be lad | 9652 |
| MLT 648 And swich a colour in his face hath had | 9654 |
| MLT 662 " Now hastily do fecche a book, " quod he, | 9668 |
| MLT 666 A Britoun book, written with Evaungiles, | 9672 |
| MLT 670 That doun he fil atones as a stoon, | 9676 |
| MLT 673 A voys was herd in general audience, | 9678 |
| MLT 693 And thus hath Crist ymaad Custance a queene. | 9698 |
| MLT 699 Hir thoughte a despit that he sholde take | 9704 |
| MLT 700 So strange a creature unto his make. | 9706 |
| MLT 702 Maken so long a tale as of the corn. | 9708 |
| MLT 705 Who bloweth in a trumpe or in an horn? | 9710 |
| MLT 713 And leye a lite hir hoolynesse aside, | 9718 |
| MLT 715 On hire he gat a knave child anon, | 9720 |
| MLT 716 And to a bisshop, and his constable eke, | 9722 |
| MLT 722 The tyme is come a knave child she beer; | 9728 |
| MLT 724 This constable dooth forth come a messageer, | 9730 |
| MLT 745 Out of his box, whil he sleep as a swyn; | 9750 |
| MLT 751 Of so horrible a feendly creature | 9756 |
| MLT 774 Thy mynde is lorn, thou janglest as a jay, | 9780 |
| MLT 775 Thy face is turned in a newe array. | 9780 |
| MLT 798 Thre dayes and o quarter of a tyde; | 9804 |
| MLT 812 So ful of synne is many a creature? | 9818 |
| MLT 822 And Custance, with a deedly pale face, | 9828 |
| MLT 844 For which thy child was on a croys yrent. | 9850 |
| MLT 911 Doun fro the castel comth ther many a wight | 9916 |
| MLT 913 But shortly, from the castel, on a nyght, | 9918 |
| MLT 915 A theef, that hadde reneyed oure creance, | 9920 |
| MLT 949 And somtyme est, ful many a wery day, | 9954 |
| MLT 953 Now lat us stynte of Custance but a throwe, | 9958 |
| MLT 957 Doon to his doghter by a fals traytour, | 9962 |
| MLT 965 Ful many a day; but shortly -- this is th' ende -- | 9970 |
| MLT 989 Upon a day fil in swich repentance | 9994 |
| MLT 1001 As to doon any kyng a reverence. | 10006 |
| MLT 1005 And so bifel that in a day or two | 10010 |
| MLT 1020 A mooder he hath, but fader hath he noon | 10026 |
| MLT 1021 That I of woot " -- and shortly, in a stounde, | 10026 |
| MLT 1024 " So vertuous a lyvere in my lyf | 10030 |
| MLT 1027 I dar wel seyn hir hadde levere a knyf | 10032 |
| MLT 1028 Thurghout hir brest, than ben a womman wikke; | 10034 |
| MLT 1031 As possible is a creature to be. | 10036 |
| MLT 1055 And she, for sorwe, as doumb stant as a tree, | 10060 |
| MLT 1075 And swich a blisse is ther bitwix hem two | 10080 |
| MLT 1120 A thousand foold wel moore than I kan telle. | 10126 |
| MLT 1143 Whan passed was a yeer, evene as I gesse, | 10148 |
| GP 19 Bifil that in that seson on a day, | 10186 |
| GP 24 Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye | 10192 |
| GP 42 And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne. | 10210 |
| GP 43 A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, | 10210 |
| GP 43 A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, | 10210 |
| GP 60 At many a noble armee hadde he be. | 10228 |
| GP 67 And everemoore he hadde a sovereyn prys. | 10234 |
| GP 69 And of his port as meeke as is a mayde. | 10236 |
| GP 72 He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght. | 10240 |
| GP 75 Of fustian he wered a gypon | 10242 |
| GP 79 With hym ther was his sone, a yong SQUIER, | 10246 |
| GP 80 A lovyere and a lusty bacheler, | 10248 |
| GP 80 A lovyere and a lusty bacheler, | 10248 |
| GP 89 Embrouded was he, as it were a meede | 10256 |
| GP 98 He sleep namoore than dooth a nyghtyngale. | 10266 |
| GP 101 A YEMAN hadde he and servantz namo | 10268 |
| GP 104 A sheef of pecok arwes, bright and kene, | 10272 |
| GP 108 And in his hand he baar a myghty bowe. | 10276 |
| GP 109 A not heed hadde he, with a broun visage. | 10276 |
| GP 109 A not heed hadde he, with a broun visage. | 10276 |
| GP 111 Upon his arm he baar a gay bracer, | 10278 |
| GP 112 And by his syde a swerd and a bokeler, | 10280 |
| GP 112 And by his syde a swerd and a bokeler, | 10280 |
| GP 113 And on that oother syde a gay daggere | 10280 |
| GP 115 A Cristopher on his brest of silver sheene. | 10282 |
| GP 117 A forster was he, soothly, as I gesse. | 10284 |
| GP 118 Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, | 10286 |
| GP 118 Ther was also a Nonne, a PRIORESSE, | 10286 |
| GP 130 Wel koude she carie a morsel and wel kepe | 10298 |
| GP 144 She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous | 10312 |
| GP 145 Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde. | 10312 |
| GP 149 Or if men smoot it with a yerde smerte; | 10316 |
| GP 154 But sikerly she hadde a fair forheed; | 10322 |
| GP 155 It was almoost a spanne brood, I trowe; | 10322 |
| GP 159 A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene, | 10326 |
| GP 160 And theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene, | 10328 |
| GP 161 On which ther was first write a crowned A, | 10328 |
| GP 161 On which ther was first write a crowned A, | 10328 |
| GP 165 A MONK ther was, a fair for the maistrie, | 10332 |
| GP 165 A MONK ther was, a fair for the maistrie, | 10332 |
| GP 167 A manly man, to been an abbot able. | 10334 |
| GP 168 Ful many a deyntee hors hadde he in stable, | 10336 |
| GP 170 Gynglen in a whistlynge wynd als cleere | 10338 |
| GP 177 He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen, | 10344 |
| GP 179 Ne that a monk, whan he is recchelees, | 10346 |
| GP 180 Is likned til a fissh that is waterlees -- | 10348 |
| GP 181 This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre. | 10348 |
| GP 185 Upon a book in cloystre alwey to poure, | 10352 |
| GP 189 Therfore he was a prikasour aright: | 10356 |
| GP 194 With grys, and that the fyneste of a lond; | 10362 |
| GP 196 He hadde of gold ywroght a ful curious pyn; | 10364 |
| GP 197 A love-knotte in the gretter ende ther was. | 10364 |
| GP 200 He was a lord ful fat and in good poynt; | 10368 |
| GP 202 That stemed as a forneys of a leed; | 10370 |
| GP 202 That stemed as a forneys of a leed; | 10370 |
| GP 204 Now certeinly he was a fair prelaat; | 10372 |
| GP 205 He was nat pale as a forpyned goost. | 10372 |
| GP 206 A fat swan loved he best of any roost. | 10374 |
| GP 207 His palfrey was as broun as is a berye. | 10374 |
| GP 208 A FRERE ther was, a wantowne and a merye, | 10376 |
| GP 208 A FRERE ther was, a wantowne and a merye, | 10376 |
| GP 208 A FRERE ther was, a wantowne and a merye, | 10376 |
| GP 209 A lymytour, a ful solempne man. | 10376 |
| GP 209 A lymytour, a ful solempne man. | 10376 |
| GP 212 He hadde maad ful many a mariage | 10380 |
| GP 214 Unto his ordre he was a noble post. | 10382 |
| GP 219 As seyde hymself, moore than a curat, | 10386 |
| GP 224 Ther as he wiste to have a good pitaunce. | 10392 |
| GP 225 For unto a povre ordre for to yive | 10392 |
| GP 226 Is signe that a man is wel yshryve; | 10394 |
| GP 228 He wiste that a man was repentaunt; | 10396 |
| GP 229 For many a man so hard is of his herte, | 10396 |
| GP 235 And certeinly he hadde a murye note: | 10402 |
| GP 236 Wel koude he synge and pleyen on a rote; | 10404 |
| GP 239 Therto he strong was as a champioun. | 10406 |
| GP 242 Bet than a lazar or a beggestere, | 10410 |
| GP 242 Bet than a lazar or a beggestere, | 10410 |
| GP 243 For unto swich a worthy man as he | 10410 |
| GP 252a [And yaf a certeyn ferme for the graunt; | 10420 |
| GP 253 For thogh a wydwe hadde noght a sho, | 10422 |
| GP 253 For thogh a wydwe hadde noght a sho, | 10422 |
| GP 255 Yet wolde he have a ferthyng, er he wente. | 10424 |
| GP 257 And rage he koude, as it were right a whelp. | 10426 |
| GP 259 For ther he was nat lyk a cloysterer | 10428 |
| GP 260 With a thredbare cope, as is a povre scoler, | 10430 |
| GP 260 With a thredbare cope, as is a povre scoler, | 10430 |
| GP 261 But he was lyk a maister or a pope. | 10430 |
| GP 261 But he was lyk a maister or a pope. | 10430 |
| GP 263 That rounded as a belle out of the presse. | 10432 |
| GP 270 A MARCHANT was ther with a forked berd, | 10440 |
| GP 270 A MARCHANT was ther with a forked berd, | 10440 |
| GP 272 Upon his heed a Flaundryssh bever hat, | 10442 |
| GP 283 For sothe he was a worthy man with alle, | 10452 |
| GP 285 A CLERK ther was of Oxenford also, | 10454 |
| GP 287 As leene was his hors as is a rake, | 10456 |
| GP 297 But al be that he was a philosophre, | 10466 |
| GP 309 A SERGEANT OF THE LAWE, war and wys, | 10478 |
| GP 318 So greet a purchasour was nowher noon: | 10488 |
| GP 321 Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, | 10490 |
| GP 325 Therto he koude endite and make a thyng, | 10494 |
| GP 328 He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote, | 10498 |
| GP 329 Girt with a ceint of silk, with barres smale; | 10498 |
| GP 331 A FRANKELEYN was in his compaignye. | 10500 |
| GP 334 Wel loved he by the morwe a sop in wyn; | 10504 |
| GP 339 An housholdere, and that a greet, was he; | 10508 |
| GP 342 A bettre envyned man was nowher noon. | 10512 |
| GP 349 Ful many a fat partrich hadde he in muwe, | 10518 |
| GP 350 And many a breem and many a luce in stuwe. | 10520 |
| GP 350 And many a breem and many a luce in stuwe. | 10520 |
| GP 357 An anlaas and a gipser al of silk | 10526 |
| GP 359 A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. | 10528 |
| GP 359 A shirreve hadde he been, and a contour. | 10528 |
| GP 360 Was nowher swich a worthy vavasour. | 10530 |
| GP 361 AN HABERDASSHERE and a CARPENTER, | 10530 |
| GP 362 A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER -- | 10532 |
| GP 362 A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER -- | 10532 |
| GP 362 A WEBBE, a DYERE, and a TAPYCER -- | 10532 |
| GP 364 Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee. | 10534 |
| GP 364 Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee. | 10534 |
| GP 369 Wel semed ech of hem a fair burgeys | 10538 |
| GP 370 To sitten in a yeldehalle on a deys. | 10540 |
| GP 370 To sitten in a yeldehalle on a deys. | 10540 |
| GP 378 And have a mantel roialliche ybore. | 10548 |
| GP 379 A COOK they hadde with hem for the nones | 10548 |
| GP 382 Wel koude he knowe a draughte of Londoun ale. | 10552 |
| GP 384 Maken mortreux, and wel bake a pye. | 10554 |
| GP 386 That on his shyne a mormal hadde he. | 10556 |
| GP 388 A SHIPMAN was ther, wonynge fer by weste; | 10558 |
| GP 390 He rood upon a rouncy, as he kouthe, | 10560 |
| GP 391 In a gowne of faldyng to the knee. | 10560 |
| GP 392 A daggere hangynge on a laas hadde he | 10562 |
| GP 392 A daggere hangynge on a laas hadde he | 10562 |
| GP 395 And certeinly he was a good felawe. | 10564 |
| GP 396 Ful many a draughte of wyn had he ydrawe | 10566 |
| GP 406 With many a tempest hadde his berd been shake. | 10576 |
| GP 411 With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISIK; | 10580 |
| GP 415 He kepte his pacient a ful greet deel | 10584 |
| GP 422 He was a verray, parfit praktisour: | 10592 |
| GP 443 For gold in phisik is a cordial, | 10612 |
| GP 445 A good WIF was ther OF biside BATHE, | 10614 |
| GP 455 That on a Sonday weren upon hir heed. | 10624 |
| GP 459 She was a worthy womman al hir lyve: | 10628 |
| GP 464 She hadde passed many a straunge strem; | 10634 |
| GP 471 As brood as is a bokeler or a targe; | 10640 |
| GP 471 As brood as is a bokeler or a targe; | 10640 |
| GP 472 A foot-mantel aboute hir hipes large, | 10642 |
| GP 473 And on hir feet a paire of spores sharpe. | 10642 |
| GP 477 A good man was ther of religioun, | 10646 |
| GP 478 And was a povre PERSOUN OF A TOUN, | 10648 |
| GP 478 And was a povre PERSOUN OF A TOUN, | 10648 |
| GP 480 He was also a lerned man, a clerk, | 10650 |
| GP 480 He was also a lerned man, a clerk, | 10650 |
| GP 495 Upon his feet, and in his hand a staf. | 10664 |
| GP 501 For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, | 10670 |
| GP 502 No wonder is a lewed man to ruste; | 10672 |
| GP 503 And shame it is, if a prest take keep, | 10672 |
| GP 504 A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. | 10674 |
| GP 504 A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. | 10674 |
| GP 505 Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, | 10674 |
| GP 510 To seken hym a chaunterie for soules, | 10680 |
| GP 511 Or with a bretherhed to been withholde; | 10680 |
| GP 514 He was a shepherde and noght a mercenarie. | 10684 |
| GP 514 He was a shepherde and noght a mercenarie. | 10684 |
| GP 524 A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon ys. | 10694 |
| GP 526 Ne maked him a spiced conscience, | 10696 |
| GP 529 With hym ther was a PLOWMAN, was his brother, | 10698 |
| GP 530 That hadde ylad of dong ful many a fother; | 10700 |
| GP 531 A trewe swynkere and a good was he, | 10700 |
| GP 531 A trewe swynkere and a good was he, | 10700 |
| GP 541 In a tabard he rood upon a mere. | 10710 |
| GP 541 In a tabard he rood upon a mere. | 10710 |
| GP 542 Ther was also a REVE, and a MILLERE, | 10712 |
| GP 542 Ther was also a REVE, and a MILLERE, | 10712 |
| GP 543 A SOMNOUR, and a PARDONER also, | 10712 |
| GP 543 A SOMNOUR, and a PARDONER also, | 10712 |
| GP 544 A MAUNCIPLE, and myself -- ther were namo. | 10714 |
| GP 545 The MILLERE was a stout carl for the nones; | 10714 |
| GP 549 He was short-sholdred, brood, a thikke knarre; | 10718 |
| GP 551 Or breke it at a rennyng with his heed. | 10720 |
| GP 553 And therto brood, as though it were a spade. | 10722 |
| GP 555 A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys, | 10724 |
| GP 555 A werte, and theron stood a toft of herys, | 10724 |
| GP 556 Reed as the brustles of a sowes erys; | 10726 |
| GP 558 A swerd and a bokeler bar he by his syde. | 10728 |
| GP 558 A swerd and a bokeler bar he by his syde. | 10728 |
| GP 559 His mouth as greet was as a greet forneys. | 10728 |
| GP 560 He was a janglere and a goliardeys, | 10730 |
| GP 560 He was a janglere and a goliardeys, | 10730 |
| GP 563 And yet he hadde a thombe of gold, pardee. | 10732 |
| GP 564 A whit cote and a blew hood wered he. | 10734 |
| GP 564 A whit cote and a blew hood wered he. | 10734 |
| GP 565 A baggepipe wel koude he blowe and sowne, | 10734 |
| GP 567 A gentil MAUNCIPLE was ther of a temple, | 10736 |
| GP 567 A gentil MAUNCIPLE was ther of a temple, | 10736 |
| GP 573 Now is nat that of God a ful fair grace | 10742 |
| GP 574 That swich a lewed mannes wit shal pace | 10744 |
| GP 578 Of which ther were a duszeyne in that hous | 10748 |
| GP 584 And able for to helpen al a shire | 10754 |
| GP 587 The REVE was a sclendre colerik man. | 10756 |
| GP 590 His top was dokked lyk a preest biforn. | 10760 |
| GP 592 Ylyk a staf; ther was no calf ysene. | 10762 |
| GP 593 Wel koude he kepe a gerner and a bynne; | 10762 |
| GP 593 Wel koude he kepe a gerner and a bynne; | 10762 |
| GP 612 And have a thank, and yet a cote and hood. | 10782 |
| GP 612 And have a thank, and yet a cote and hood. | 10782 |
| GP 613 In youthe he hadde lerned a good myster: | 10782 |
| GP 614 He was a wel good wrighte, a carpenter. | 10784 |
| GP 614 He was a wel good wrighte, a carpenter. | 10784 |
| GP 615 This Reve sat upon a ful good stot | 10784 |
| GP 617 A long surcote of pers upon he hade, | 10786 |
| GP 618 And by his syde he baar a rusty blade. | 10788 |
| GP 620 Biside a toun men clepen Baldeswelle. | 10790 |
| GP 621 Tukked he was as is a frere aboute, | 10790 |
| GP 623 A SOMONOUR was ther with us in that place, | 10792 |
| GP 624 That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face, | 10794 |
| GP 626 As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe, | 10796 |
| GP 639 A fewe termes hadde he, two or thre, | 10808 |
| GP 642 And eek ye knowen wel how that a jay | 10812 |
| GP 647 He was a gentil harlot and a kynde; | 10816 |
| GP 647 He was a gentil harlot and a kynde; | 10816 |
| GP 648 A bettre felawe sholde men noght fynde. | 10818 |
| GP 649 He wolde suffre for a quart of wyn | 10818 |
| GP 650 A good felawe to have his concubyn | 10820 |
| GP 651 A twelf month, and excuse hym atte fulle; | 10820 |
| GP 652 Ful prively a fynch eek koude he pulle. | 10822 |
| GP 653 And if he foond owher a good felawe, | 10822 |
| GP 656 But if a mannes soule were in his purs; | 10826 |
| GP 662 And also war hym of a Significavit. | 10832 |
| GP 666 A gerland hadde he set upon his heed, | 10836 |
| GP 668 A bokeleer hadde he maad hym of a cake. | 10838 |
| GP 668 A bokeleer hadde he maad hym of a cake. | 10838 |
| GP 669 With hym ther rood a gentil PARDONER | 10838 |
| GP 673 This Somonour bar to hym a stif burdoun; | 10842 |
| GP 674 Was nevere trompe of half so greet a soun. | 10844 |
| GP 676 But smothe it heeng as dooth a strike of flex; | 10846 |
| GP 685 A vernycle hadde he sowed upon his cappe. | 10854 |
| GP 688 A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot. | 10858 |
| GP 688 A voys he hadde as smal as hath a goot. | 10858 |
| GP 691 I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare. | 10860 |
| GP 691 I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare. | 10860 |
| GP 694 For in his male he hadde a pilwe-beer, | 10864 |
| GP 696 He seyde he hadde a gobet of the seyl | 10866 |
| GP 699 He hadde a croys of latoun ful of stones, | 10868 |
| GP 700 And in a glas he hadde pigges bones. | 10870 |
| GP 702 A povre person dwellynge upon lond, | 10872 |
| GP 703 Upon a day he gat hym moore moneye | 10872 |
| GP 708 He was in chirche a noble ecclesiaste. | 10878 |
| GP 709 Wel koude he rede a lessoun or a storie, | 10878 |
| GP 709 Wel koude he rede a lessoun or a storie, | 10878 |
| GP 715 Now have I toold you soothly, in a clause, | 10884 |
| GP 731 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, | 10900 |
| GP 731 Whoso shal telle a tale after a man, | 10900 |
| GP 733 Everich a word, if it be in his charge, | 10902 |
| GP 751 A semely man OURE HOOSTE was withalle | 10920 |
| GP 752 For to been a marchal in an halle. | 10922 |
| GP 753 A large man he was with eyen stepe -- | 10922 |
| GP 754 A fairer burgeys was ther noon in Chepe -- | 10924 |
| GP 757 Eek therto he was right a myrie man; | 10926 |
| GP 764 I saugh nat this yeer so myrie a compaignye | 10934 |
| GP 767 And of a myrthe I am right now bythoght, | 10936 |
| GP 774 To ride by the weye doumb as a stoon; | 10944 |
| GP 799 Shal have a soper at oure aller cost | 10968 |
| GP 815 And sette a soper at a certeyn pris, | 10984 |
| GP 815 And sette a soper at a certeyn pris, | 10984 |
| GP 824 And gadrede us togidre alle in a flok, | 10994 |
| GP 825 And forth we riden a litel moore than paas | 10994 |
| GP 854 What, welcome be the cut, a Goddes name! | 11024 |
| GP 857 And he bigan with right a myrie cheere | 11026 |
| KnT 860 Ther was a duc that highte Theseus; | 11030 |
| KnT 862 And in his tyme swich a conquerour | 11032 |
| KnT 864 Ful many a riche contree hadde he wonne; | 11034 |
| KnT 886 I have, God woot, a large feeld to ere, | 11056 |
| KnT 898 A compaignye of ladyes, tweye and tweye, | 11068 |
| KnT 900 But swich a cry and swich a wo they make | 11070 |
| KnT 900 But swich a cry and swich a wo they make | 11070 |
| KnT 913 Whan she hadde swowned with a deedly cheere, | 11082 |
| KnT 916 Victorie, and as a conqueror to lyven, | 11086 |
| KnT 923 That she ne hath been a duchesse or a queene. | 11092 |
| KnT 923 That she ne hath been a duchesse or a queene. | 11092 |
| KnT 969 Ne take his ese fully half a day, | 11138 |
| KnT 984 Faire in a feeld, ther as he thoughte to fighte. | 11154 |
| KnT 987 He faught, and slough hym manly as a knyght | 11156 |
| KnT 1010 Thurgh-girt with many a grevous blody wounde, | 11180 |
| KnT 1027 With laurer crowned as a conquerour; | 11196 |
| KnT 1030 And in a tour, in angwissh and in wo, | 11200 |
| KnT 1034 Till it fil ones, in a morwe of May, | 11204 |
| KnT 1049 Hir yelow heer was broyded in a tresse | 11218 |
| KnT 1050 Bihynde hir bak, a yerde long, I gesse. | 11220 |
| KnT 1054 To make a subtil gerland for hire hede; | 11224 |
| KnT 1065 Was risen and romed in a chambre an heigh, | 11234 |
| KnT 1075 That thurgh a wyndow, thikke of many a barre | 11244 |
| KnT 1075 That thurgh a wyndow, thikke of many a barre | 11244 |
| KnT 1078 And therwithal he bleynte and cride, " A! " | 11248 |
| KnT 1094 Thow hast a veyn ymaginacioun. | 11264 |
| KnT 1117 And with a sigh he seyde pitously, | 11286 |
| KnT 1149 For which thou art ybounden as a knyght | 11318 |
| KnT 1157 Wheither she be a womman or goddesse! | 11326 |
| KnT 1159 And myn is love as to a creature; | 11328 |
| KnT 1164 That `who shal yeve a lovere any lawe?' | 11334 |
| KnT 1165 Love is a gretter lawe, by my pan, | 11334 |
| KnT 1169 A man moot nedes love, maugree his heed; | 11338 |
| KnT 1179 Ther cam a kyte, whil that they were so wrothe, | 11348 |
| KnT 1189 But to th' effect. It happed on a day, | 11358 |
| KnT 1191 A worthy duc that highte Perotheus, | 11360 |
| KnT 1208 In swich a gyse as I you tellen shal. | 11378 |
| KnT 1215 That with a swerd he sholde lese his heed. | 11384 |
| KnT 1219 How greet a sorwe suffreth now Arcite! | 11388 |
| KnT 1241 And art a knyght, a worthy and an able, | 11410 |
| KnT 1241 And art a knyght, a worthy and an able, | 11410 |
| KnT 1253 That yeveth hem ful ofte in many a gyse | 11422 |
| KnT 1261 We faren as he that dronke is as a mous. | 11430 |
| KnT 1262 A dronke man woot wel he hath an hous, | 11432 |
| KnT 1264 And to a dronke man the wey is slider. | 11434 |
| KnT 1269 That wende and hadde a greet opinioun | 11438 |
| KnT 1287 And make a werre so sharp on this citee | 11456 |
| KnT 1293 And art a lord, greet is thyn avauntage | 11462 |
| KnT 1294 Moore than is myn, that sterve here in a cage. | 11464 |
| KnT 1318 Ther as a beest may al his lust fulfille. | 11488 |
| KnT 1319 And whan a beest is deed he hath no peyne; | 11488 |
| KnT 1325 Allas, I se a serpent or a theef, | 11494 |
| KnT 1325 Allas, I se a serpent or a theef, | 11494 |
| KnT 1326 That many a trewe man hath doon mescheef, | 11496 |
| KnT 1334 Now wol I stynte of Palamon a lite, | 11504 |
| KnT 1356 Ful ofte a day he swelte and seyde " Allas! " | 11526 |
| KnT 1362 That lene he wex and drye as is a shaft; | 11532 |
| KnT 1381 Whan he endured hadde a yeer or two | 11550 |
| KnT 1384 Upon a nyght in sleep as he hym leyde, | 11554 |
| KnT 1399 And with that word he caughte a greet mirour, | 11568 |
| KnT 1409 And cladde hym as a povre laborer, | 11578 |
| KnT 1410 And al allone, save oonly a squier | 11580 |
| KnT 1414 And to the court he wente upon a day, | 11584 |
| KnT 1418 He fil in office with a chamberleyn | 11588 |
| KnT 1426 A yeer or two he was in this servyse, | 11596 |
| KnT 1429 But half so wel biloved a man as he | 11598 |
| KnT 1433 They seyden that it were a charitee | 11602 |
| KnT 1437 And thus withinne a while his name is spronge, | 11606 |
| KnT 1440 That of his chambre he made hym a squier, | 11610 |
| KnT 1450 And speke I wole of Palamon a lite. | 11620 |
| KnT 1457 And eek therto he is a prisoner | 11626 |
| KnT 1458 Perpetuelly, noght oonly for a yer. | 11628 |
| KnT 1466 As, whan a thyng is shapen, it shal be -- | 11636 |
| KnT 1468 By helpyng of a freend, brak his prisoun | 11638 |
| KnT 1471 Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, | 11640 |
| KnT 1471 Of a clarree maad of a certeyn wyn, | 11640 |
| KnT 1478 And til a grove faste ther bisyde | 11648 |
| KnT 1502 He on a courser, startlynge as the fir, | 11672 |
| KnT 1504 Out of the court, were it a myle or tweye. | 11674 |
| KnT 1507 To maken hym a gerland of the greves, | 11676 |
| KnT 1513 And from his courser, with a lusty herte, | 11682 |
| KnT 1515 And in a path he rometh up and doun, | 11684 |
| KnT 1517 Was in a bussh, that no man myghte hym se, | 11686 |
| KnT 1523 It is ful fair a man to bere hym evene, | 11692 |
| KnT 1530 Into a studie he fil sodeynly, | 11700 |
| KnT 1533 Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle. | 11702 |
| KnT 1558 Now highte I Philostrate, noght worth a myte. | 11728 |
| KnT 1570 Ne sette I nat the montance of a tare, | 11740 |
| KnT 1572 And with that word he fil doun in a traunce | 11742 |
| KnT 1573 A longe tyme, and after he up sterte. | 11742 |
| KnT 1575 He felte a coold swerd sodeynliche glyde, | 11744 |
| KnT 1608 But for as muche thou art a worthy knyght | 11778 |
| KnT 1612 That heere I wol be founden as a knyght, | 11782 |
| KnT 1639 That stondeth at the gappe with a spere, | 11808 |
| KnT 1656 In his fightyng were a wood leon, | 11826 |
| KnT 1657 And as a crueel tigre was Arcite; | 11826 |
| KnT 1667 The contrarie of a thyng by ye or nay, | 11836 |
| KnT 1668 Yet somtyme it shal fallen on a day | 11838 |
| KnT 1669 That falleth nat eft withinne a thousand yeer. | 11838 |
| KnT 1693 And over a brook, and so forth on his weye. | 11862 |
| KnT 1694 This duc wol han a cours at hym or tweye | 11864 |
| KnT 1705 And at a stert he was bitwix hem two, | 11874 |
| KnT 1706 And pulled out a swerd and cride, " Hoo! | 11876 |
| KnT 1713 As it were in a lystes roially. " | 11882 |
| KnT 1719 And as thou art a rightful lord and juge, | 11888 |
| KnT 1729 Thus hath he japed thee ful many a yer, | 11898 |
| KnT 1743 And seyde, " This is a short conclusioun. | 11912 |
| KnT 1752 That evere swich a chaunce sholde falle, | 11922 |
| KnT 1763 He hath considered shortly, in a clause, | 11932 |
| KnT 1774 Upon a lord that wol have no mercy, | 11944 |
| KnT 1775 But been a leon, bothe in word and dede, | 11944 |
| KnT 1777 As wel as to a proud despitous man | 11946 |
| KnT 1785 " The god of love, a benedicite! | 11954 |
| KnT 1786 How myghty and how greet a lord is he! | 11956 |
| KnT 1788 He may be cleped a god for his myracles, | 11958 |
| KnT 1799 Who may been a fool but if he love? | 11968 |
| KnT 1810 By God, than woot a cokkow or an hare! | 11980 |
| KnT 1812 A man moot ben a fool, or yong or oold -- | 11982 |
| KnT 1812 A man moot ben a fool, or yong or oold -- | 11982 |
| KnT 1814 For in my tyme a servant was I oon. | 11984 |
| KnT 1816 And woot hou soore it kan a man distreyne, | 11986 |
| KnT 1830 Though that she were a queene or a princesse, | 12000 |
| KnT 1830 Though that she were a queene or a princesse, | 12000 |
| KnT 1855 Upon my trouthe, and as I am a knyght, | 12024 |
| KnT 1861 To whom that Fortune yeveth so fair a grace. | 12030 |
| KnT 1874 Whan Theseus hath doon so fair a grace? | 12044 |
| KnT 1885 That swich a noble theatre as it was | 12054 |
| KnT 1887 The circuit a myle was aboute, | 12056 |
| KnT 1891 That whan a man was set on o degree, | 12060 |
| KnT 1893 Estward ther stood a gate of marbul whit, | 12062 |
| KnT 1895 And shortly to concluden, swich a place | 12064 |
| KnT 1908 That coste largely of gold a fother. | 12078 |
| KnT 1909 And northward, in a touret on the wal, | 12078 |
| KnT 1929 That wered of yelewe gooldes a gerland, | 12098 |
| KnT 1930 And a cokkow sittynge on hir hand; | 12100 |
| KnT 1954 And though I koude rekene a thousand mo. | 12124 |
| KnT 1959 A citole in hir right hand hadde she, | 12128 |
| KnT 1961 A rose gerland, fressh and wel smellynge; | 12130 |
| KnT 1966 A bowe he bar and arwes brighte and kene. | 12136 |
| KnT 1975 First on the wal was peynted a forest, | 12144 |
| KnT 1979 In which ther ran a rumbel in a swough, | 12148 |
| KnT 1979 In which ther ran a rumbel in a swough, | 12148 |
| KnT 1980 As though a storm sholde bresten every bough. | 12150 |
| KnT 1981 And dounward from an hille, under a bente, | 12150 |
| KnT 1985 And therout came a rage and swich a veze | 12154 |
| KnT 1985 And therout came a rage and swich a veze | 12154 |
| KnT 2014 A thousand slayn, and nat of qualm ystorve; | 12184 |
| KnT 2027 And al above, depeynted in a tour, | 12196 |
| KnT 2030 Hangynge by a soutil twynes threed. | 12200 |
| KnT 2041 The statue of Mars upon a carte stood | 12210 |
| KnT 2047 A wolf ther stood biforn hym at his feet | 12216 |
| KnT 2048 With eyen rede, and of a man he eet; | 12218 |
| KnT 2058 Was turned from a womman til a bere, | 12228 |
| KnT 2058 Was turned from a womman til a bere, | 12228 |
| KnT 2061 Hir sone is eek a sterre, as men may see. | 12230 |
| KnT 2062 Ther saugh I Dane, yturned til a tree -- | 12232 |
| KnT 2069 Yet peynted was a litel forther moor | 12238 |
| KnT 2077 And undernethe hir feet she hadde a moone -- | 12246 |
| KnT 2080 With bowe in honde and arwes in a cas. | 12250 |
| KnT 2083 A womman travaillynge was hire biforn; | 12252 |
| KnT 2088 With many a floryn he the hewes boghte. | 12258 |
| KnT 2093 But stynte I wole of Theseus a lite, | 12262 |
| KnT 2101 And sikerly ther trowed many a man | 12270 |
| KnT 2105 Nas of so fewe so noble a compaignye. | 12274 |
| KnT 2107 And wolde, his thankes, han a passant name, | 12276 |
| KnT 2110 For if ther fille tomorwe swich a cas, | 12280 |
| KnT 2115 To fighte for a lady, benedicitee! | 12284 |
| KnT 2116 It were a lusty sighte for to see. | 12286 |
| KnT 2120 And in a brestplate and a light gypoun; | 12290 |
| KnT 2120 And in a brestplate and a light gypoun; | 12290 |
| KnT 2121 And som wol have a paire plates large; | 12290 |
| KnT 2122 And som wol have a Pruce sheeld or a targe; | 12292 |
| KnT 2122 And som wol have a Pruce sheeld or a targe; | 12292 |
| KnT 2124 And have an ax, and som a mace of steel -- | 12294 |
| KnT 2133 And lik a grifphon looked he aboute, | 12302 |
| KnT 2138 Ful hye upon a chaar of gold stood he, | 12308 |
| KnT 2142 He hadde a beres skyn, col-blak for old. | 12312 |
| KnT 2145 A wrethe of gold, arm-greet, of huge wighte, | 12314 |
| KnT 2157 Upon a steede bay trapped in steel, | 12326 |
| KnT 2163 A mantelet upon his shulder hangynge, | 12332 |
| KnT 2169 A fewe frakenes in his face yspreynd, | 12338 |
| KnT 2171 And as a leon he his lookyng caste. | 12340 |
| KnT 2174 His voys was as a trompe thonderynge. | 12344 |
| KnT 2176 A gerland, fressh and lusty for to sene. | 12346 |
| KnT 2186 Ful many a tame leon and leopart. | 12356 |
| KnT 2217 And in hir houre he walketh forth a pas | 12386 |
| KnT 2255 Thanne preye I thee, tomorwe with a spere | 12424 |
| KnT 2266 And made a signe, wherby that he took | 12436 |
| KnT 2268 For thogh the signe shewed a delay, | 12438 |
| KnT 2283 Hir body wessh with water of a welle. | 12452 |
| KnT 2286 And yet it were a game to heeren al. | 12456 |
| KnT 2288 But it is good a man been at his large. | 12458 |
| KnT 2290 A coroune of a grene ook cerial | 12460 |
| KnT 2290 A coroune of a grene ook cerial | 12460 |
| KnT 2301 Ful many a yeer, and woost what I desire, | 12470 |
| KnT 2305 Desire to ben a mayden al my lyf, | 12474 |
| KnT 2308 A mayde, and love huntynge and venerye, | 12478 |
| KnT 2310 And noght to ben a wyf and be with childe. | 12480 |
| KnT 2330 And whil I lyve, a mayde I wol thee serve. " | 12500 |
| KnT 2333 But sodeynly she saugh a sighte queynte, | 12502 |
| KnT 2337 And as it queynte it made a whistelynge, | 12506 |
| KnT 2360 And forth she wente and made a vanysshynge; | 12530 |
| KnT 2388 Although thee ones on a tyme mysfille, | 12558 |
| KnT 2427 A sweete smel the ground anon up yaf, | 12596 |
| KnT 2432 And with that soun he herde a murmurynge | 12602 |
| KnT 2494 And to the paleys rood ther many a route | 12664 |
| KnT 2520 " He hath a sparth of twenty pound of wighte. " | 12690 |
| KnT 2528 Duc Theseus was at a wyndow set, | 12698 |
| KnT 2529 Arrayed right as he were a god in trone. | 12698 |
| KnT 2533 An heraud on a scaffold made an " Oo! " | 12702 |
| KnT 2549 But o cours with a sharpe ygrounde spere; | 12718 |
| KnT 2563 " God save swich a lord, that is so good | 12732 |
| KnT 2569 Ful lik a lord this noble duc gan ryde, | 12738 |
| KnT 2614 He rolleth under foot as dooth a bal; | 12784 |
| KnT 2623 Ful ofte a day han thise Thebanes two | 12792 |
| KnT 2646 Is born out of his sadel a swerdes lengthe, | 12816 |
| KnT 2660 Anon ther is a noyse of peple bigonne | 12830 |
| KnT 2674 But herkneth me, and stynteth noyse a lite, | 12844 |
| KnT 2675 Which a myracle ther bifel anon. | 12844 |
| KnT 2677 And on a courser, for to shewe his face, | 12846 |
| KnT 2680 And she agayn hym caste a freendlich ye | 12850 |
| KnT 2684 Out of the ground a furie infernal sterte, | 12854 |
| KnT 2697 And in a bed ybrought ful faire and blyve, | 12866 |
| KnT 2710 That with a spere was thirled his brest boon. | 12880 |
| KnT 2720 But as a justes or a tourneiynge; | 12890 |
| KnT 2720 But as a justes or a tourneiynge; | 12890 |
| KnT 2736 And fully heeld a feeste dayes three, | 12906 |
| KnT 2738 Out of his toun a journee largely. | 12908 |
| KnT 2784 Had strif and rancour many a day agon | 12954 |
| KnT 2787 To speken of a servaunt proprely, | 12956 |
| KnT 2796 And if that evere ye shul ben a wyf, | 12966 |
| KnT 2847 This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, | 13016 |
| KnT 2863 He wolde make a fyr in which the office | 13032 |
| KnT 2866 The okes olde, and leye hem on a rewe | 13036 |
| KnT 2871 After a beere, and it al overspradde | 13040 |
| KnT 2875 Eek on his heed a coroune of laurer grene, | 13044 |
| KnT 2876 And in his hond a swerd ful bright and kene. | 13046 |
| KnT 2897 And riden forth a paas with sorweful cheere | 13066 |
| KnT 2918 Of stree first ther was leyd ful many a lode. | 13088 |
| KnT 2934 And thanne with drye stikkes cloven a thre, | 13104 |
| KnT 2937 And gerlandes, hangynge with ful many a flour; | 13106 |
| KnT 2953 Upon the left hand, with a loud shoutynge, | 13122 |
| KnT 2970 Thanne semed me ther was a parlement | 13140 |
| KnT 2982 And Theseus abiden hadde a space | 13152 |
| KnT 2985 And with a sad visage he siked stille, | 13154 |
| KnT 3005 Wel may men knowe, but it be a fool, | 13174 |
| KnT 3008 Of no partie or cantel of a thyng, | 13178 |
| KnT 3009 But of a thyng that parfit is and stable, | 13178 |
| KnT 3017 " Loo the ook, that hath so long a norisshynge | 13186 |
| KnT 3019 And hath so long a lif, as we may see, | 13188 |
| KnT 3030 He moot be deed, the kyng as shal a page; | 13200 |
| KnT 3047 And certeinly a man hath moost honour | 13216 |
| KnT 3055 Thanne is it best, as for a worthy fame, | 13224 |
| KnT 3064 Kan he hem thank? Nay, God woot, never a deel, | 13234 |
| KnT 3084 He is a kynges brother sone, pardee; | 13254 |
| KnT 3085 And though he were a povre bacheler, | 13254 |
| KnT 3086 Syn he hath served yow so many a yeer, | 13256 |
| MilT 3111 That he ne seyde it was a noble storie | 13280 |
| MilT 3126 I kan a noble tale for the nones, | 13296 |
| MilT 3134 Oure Hoost answerde, " Tel on, a devel wey! | 13304 |
| MilT 3135 Thou art a fool; thy wit is overcome. " | 13304 |
| MilT 3137 But first I make a protestacioun | 13306 |
| MilT 3141 For I wol telle a legende and a lyf | 13310 |
| MilT 3141 For I wol telle a legende and a lyf | 13310 |
| MilT 3142 Bothe of a carpenter and of his wyf, | 13312 |
| MilT 3143 How that a clerk hath set the wrightes cappe. " | 13312 |
| MilT 3146 It is a synne and eek a greet folye | 13316 |
| MilT 3146 It is a synne and eek a greet folye | 13316 |
| MilT 3155 And evere a thousand goode ayeyns oon badde. | 13324 |
| MilT 3158 I have a wyf, pardee, as wel as thow; | 13328 |
| MilT 3182 The Millere is a cherl; ye knowe wel this. | 13352 |
| MilT 3188 A riche gnof, that gestes heeld to bord, | 13358 |
| MilT 3189 And of his craft he was a carpenter. | 13358 |
| MilT 3190 With hym ther was dwellynge a poure scoler, | 13360 |
| MilT 3193 And koude a certeyn of conclusiouns, | 13362 |
| MilT 3202 And lyk a mayden meke for to see. | 13372 |
| MilT 3203 A chambre hadde he in that hostelrye | 13372 |
| MilT 3212 His presse ycovered with a faldyng reed; | 13382 |
| MilT 3213 And al above ther lay a gay sautrie, | 13382 |
| MilT 3221 This carpenter hadde wedded newe a wyf, | 13390 |
| MilT 3226 And demed hymself been lik a cokewold. | 13396 |
| MilT 3235 A ceynt she werede, barred al of silk, | 13404 |
| MilT 3236 A barmclooth as whit as morne milk | 13406 |
| MilT 3237 Upon hir lendes, ful of many a goore. | 13406 |
| MilT 3244 And sikerly she hadde a likerous ye; | 13414 |
| MilT 3249 And softer than the wolle is of a wether. | 13418 |
| MilT 3250 And by hir girdel heeng a purs of lether, | 13420 |
| MilT 3254 So gay a popelote or swich a wenche. | 13424 |
| MilT 3254 So gay a popelote or swich a wenche. | 13424 |
| MilT 3258 As any swalwe sittynge on a berne. | 13428 |
| MilT 3263 Wynsynge she was, as is a joly colt, | 13432 |
| MilT 3264 Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. | 13434 |
| MilT 3264 Long as a mast, and upright as a bolt. | 13434 |
| MilT 3265 A brooch she baar upon hir lowe coler, | 13434 |
| MilT 3266 As brood as is the boos of a bokeler. | 13436 |
| MilT 3268 She was a prymerole, a piggesnye, | 13438 |
| MilT 3268 She was a prymerole, a piggesnye, | 13438 |
| MilT 3272 That on a day this hende Nicholas | 13442 |
| MilT 3282 And she sproong as a colt dooth in the trave, | 13452 |
| MilT 3299 " A clerk hadde litherly biset his whyle, | 13468 |
| MilT 3300 But if he koude a carpenter bigyle. " | 13470 |
| MilT 3302 To wayte a tyme, as I have told biforn. | 13472 |
| MilT 3312 Now was ther of that chirche a parissh clerk, | 13482 |
| MilT 3315 And strouted as a fanne large and brode; | 13484 |
| MilT 3321 Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget; | 13490 |
| MilT 3321 Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget; | 13490 |
| MilT 3323 And therupon he hadde a gay surplys | 13492 |
| MilT 3325 A myrie child he was, so God me save. | 13494 |
| MilT 3327 And maken a chartre of lond or acquitaunce. | 13496 |
| MilT 3331 And pleyen songes on a smal rubible; | 13500 |
| MilT 3332 Therto he song som tyme a loud quynyble; | 13502 |
| MilT 3333 And as wel koude he pleye on a giterne. | 13502 |
| MilT 3340 Gooth with a sencer on the haliday, | 13510 |
| MilT 3342 And many a lovely look on hem he caste, | 13512 |
| MilT 3344 To looke on hire hym thoughte a myrie lyf, | 13514 |
| MilT 3346 I dar wel seyn, if she hadde been a mous, | 13516 |
| MilT 3347 And he a cat, he wolde hire hente anon. | 13516 |
| MilT 3349 Hath in his herte swich a love-longynge | 13518 |
| MilT 3357 A litel after cokkes hadde ycrowe, | 13526 |
| MilT 3358 And dressed hym up by a shot-wyndowe | 13528 |
| MilT 3377 He syngeth, brokkynge as a nyghtyngale; | 13546 |
| MilT 3384 He pleyeth Herodes upon a scaffold hye. | 13554 |
| MilT 3388 He ne hadde for his labour but a scorn. | 13558 |
| MilT 3390 And al his ernest turneth til a jape. | 13560 |
| MilT 3399 And so bifel it on a Saterday, | 13568 |
| MilT 3403 That Nicholas shal shapen hym a wyle | 13572 |
| MilT 3411 Bothe mete and drynke for a day or tweye, | 13580 |
| MilT 3429 I saugh today a cors yborn to chirche | 13598 |
| MilT 3432 " Clepe at his dore, or knokke with a stoon. | 13602 |
| MilT 3439 But al for noght; he herde nat a word. | 13608 |
| MilT 3440 An hole he foond, ful lowe upon a bord, | 13610 |
| MilT 3443 And at the laste he hadde of hym a sight. | 13612 |
| MilT 3450 A man woot litel what hym shal bityde. | 13620 |
| MilT 3455 Ye, blessed be alwey a lewed man | 13624 |
| MilT 3460 Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle; | 13630 |
| MilT 3465 Get me a staf, that I may underspore, | 13634 |
| MilT 3469 His knave was a strong carl for the nones, | 13638 |
| MilT 3497 And broghte of myghty ale a large quart; | 13666 |
| MilT 3516 That now a Monday next, at quarter nyght, | 13686 |
| MilT 3517 Shal falle a reyn, and that so wilde and wood | 13686 |
| MilT 3543 That she hadde had a ship hirself allone. | 13712 |
| MilT 3548 A knedyng trogh, or ellis a kymelyn, | 13718 |
| MilT 3548 A knedyng trogh, or ellis a kymelyn, | 13718 |
| MilT 3550 In which we mowe swymme as in a barge, | 13720 |
| MilT 3552 But for a day -- fy on the remenant! | 13722 |
| MilT 3560 To han as greet a grace as Noe hadde. | 13730 |
| MilT 3586 That noon of us ne speke nat a word, | 13756 |
| MilT 3611 Lo, which a greet thyng is affeccioun! | 13780 |
| MilT 3619 He siketh with ful many a sory swogh; | 13788 |
| MilT 3620 He gooth and geteth hym a knedyng trogh, | 13790 |
| MilT 3621 And after that a tubbe and a kymelyn, | 13790 |
| MilT 3621 And after that a tubbe and a kymelyn, | 13790 |
| MilT 3628 With breed, and chese, and good ale in a jubbe, | 13798 |
| MilT 3629 Suffisynge right ynogh as for a day. | 13798 |
| MilT 3637 They seten stille wel a furlong way. | 13806 |
| MilT 3661 And axed upon cas a cloisterer | 13830 |
| MilT 3668 And dwellen at the grange a day or two; | 13838 |
| MilT 3683 That is a signe of kissyng atte leeste. | 13852 |
| MilT 3684 Al nyght me mette eek I was at a feeste. | 13854 |
| MilT 3692 Under his tonge a trewe-love he beer, | 13862 |
| MilT 3697 And softe he cougheth with a semy soun: | 13866 |
| MilT 3704 I moorne as dooth a lamb after the tete. | 13874 |
| MilT 3706 That lik a turtel trewe is my moornynge. | 13876 |
| MilT 3707 I may nat ete na moore than a mayde. " | 13876 |
| MilT 3712 Go forth thy wey, or I wol caste a ston, | 13882 |
| MilT 3713 And lat me slepe, a twenty devel wey! " | 13882 |
| MilT 3724 And seyde, " I am a lord at alle degrees; | 13894 |
| MilT 3737 For wel he wiste a womman hath no berd. | 13906 |
| MilT 3738 He felte a thyng al rough and long yherd, | 13908 |
| MilT 3741 And Absolon gooth forth a sory pas. | 13910 |
| MilT 3742 " A berd! A berd! " quod hende Nicholas, | 13912 |
| MilT 3742 " A berd! A berd! " quod hende Nicholas, | 13912 |
| MilT 3756 Of paramours he sette nat a kers, | 13926 |
| MilT 3759 And weep as dooth a child that is ybete. | 13928 |
| MilT 3760 A softe paas he wente over the strete | 13930 |
| MilT 3761 Until a smyth men cleped daun Gerveys, | 13930 |
| MilT 3772 This Absolon ne roghte nat a bene | 13942 |
| MilT 3780 Or in a poke nobles alle untold, | 13950 |
| MilT 3791 That knokketh so? I warante it a theef. " | 13960 |
| MilT 3794 Of gold, " quod he, " I have thee broght a ryng. | 13964 |
| MilT 3806 This Nicholas anon leet fle a fart | 13976 |
| MilT 3807 As greet as it had been a thonder-dent, | 13976 |
| MilT 3842 And turned al his harm unto a jape. | 14012 |
| RvT 3862 A litel ire is in his herte ylaft; | 14032 |
| RvT 3863 He gan to grucche, and blamed it a lite. | 14032 |
| RvT 3865 With bleryng of a proud milleres ye, | 14034 |
| RvT 3877 For in oure wyl ther stiketh evere a nayl, | 14046 |
| RvT 3878 To have an hoor heed and a grene tayl, | 14048 |
| RvT 3879 As hath a leek; for thogh oure myght be goon, | 14048 |
| RvT 3888 And yet ik have alwey a coltes tooth, | 14058 |
| RvT 3889 As many a yeer as it is passed henne | 14058 |
| RvT 3900 He gan to speke as lordly as a kyng. | 14070 |
| RvT 3903 The devel made a reve for to preche, | 14072 |
| RvT 3904 Or of a soutere a shipman or a leche. | 14074 |
| RvT 3904 Or of a soutere a shipman or a leche. | 14074 |
| RvT 3904 Or of a soutere a shipman or a leche. | 14074 |
| RvT 3907 Lo Grenewych, ther many a shrewe is inne! | 14076 |
| RvT 3914 How that bigyled was a carpenteer, | 14084 |
| RvT 3919 He kan wel in myn eye seen a stalke, | 14088 |
| RvT 3920 But in his owene he kan nat seen a balke. " | 14090 |
| MLT 25 Wel kan Senec and many a philosophre | 14114 |
| MLT 34 Telle us a tale anon, as forward is. | 14124 |
| MLT 43 For swich lawe as a man yeveth another wight, | 14132 |
| MLT 50 Of olde tyme, as knoweth many a man; | 14140 |
| MLT 84 That is so horrible a tale for to rede, | 14174 |
| MLT 94 But nathelees, I recche noght a bene | 14184 |
| MLT 97 And with that word he, with a sobre cheere, | 14186 |
| MLT 132 Nere that a marchant, goon is many a yeere, | 14222 |
| MLT 132 Nere that a marchant, goon is many a yeere, | 14222 |
| MLT 133 Me taughte a tale, which that ye shal heere. | 14222 |
| MLT 134 In Surrye whilom dwelte a compaignye | 14224 |
| MLT 149 A certein tyme, as fil to hire plesance. | 14238 |
| MLT 157 A doghter hath that, syn the world bigan, | 14246 |
| MLT 197 In sterres, many a wynter therbiforn, | 14286 |
| MLT 208 To han Custance withinne a litel space, | 14298 |
| MLT 213 Many a subtil resoun forth they leyden; | 14302 |
| MLT 251 May no man tellen in a litel clause | 14340 |
| MLT 252 As was arrayed for so heigh a cause. | 14342 |
| MLT 314 Noght whan a roote is of a burthe yknowe? | 14404 |
| MLT 314 Noght whan a roote is of a burthe yknowe? | 14404 |
| MLT 352 Coold water shal nat greve us but a lite! -- | 14442 |
| MLT 353 And I shal swich a feeste and revel make | 14442 |
| MLT 357 Thogh she a font-ful water with hire lede. " | 14446 |
| MLT 375 She rydeth to the Sowdan on a day, | 14464 |
| MLT 387 In Surrye, with a greet solempne route, | 14476 |
| MLT 396 Receyveth hire with also glad a cheere | 14486 |
| MLT 399 A softe paas solempnely they ryde. | 14488 |
| MLT 401 Of which that Lucan maketh swich a boost, | 14490 |
| MLT 439 And in a ship al steerelees, God woot, | 14528 |
| MLT 442 A certein tresor that she thider ladde, | 14532 |
| MLT 459 The white Lamb, that hurt was with a spere, | 14548 |
| MLT 466 On many a sory meel now may she bayte; | 14556 |
| MLT 510 That thennes wolde it noght of al a tyde; | 14600 |
| MLT 519 A maner Latyn corrupt was hir speche, | 14608 |
| MLT 537 In orisons, with many a bitter teere, | 14626 |
| MLT 557 Toward the see a furlong wey or two, | 14646 |
| MLT 577 But kepte it strongly many a wyntres space | 14666 |
| MLT 585 And made a yong knyght that dwelte in that toun | 14674 |
| MLT 594 And pryvely upon a nyght he crepte | 14684 |
| MLT 612 That in a ship was founden this Custance, | 14702 |
| MLT 615 Whan he saugh so benigne a creature | 14704 |
| MLT 623 That she had doon so greet a wikkednesse, | 14712 |
| MLT 628 This gentil kyng hath caught a greet motyf | 14718 |
| MLT 630 Depper in this, a trouthe for to lere. | 14720 |
| MLT 645 Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face, | 14734 |
| MLT 646 Among a prees, of hym that hath be lad | 14736 |
| MLT 648 And swich a colour in his face hath had | 14738 |
| MLT 662 " Now hastily do fecche a book, " quod he, | 14752 |
| MLT 666 A Britoun book, written with Evaungiles, | 14756 |
| MLT 670 That doun he fil atones as a stoon, | 14760 |
| MLT 673 A voys was herd in general audience, | 14762 |
| MLT 693 And thus hath Crist ymaad Custance a queene. | 14782 |
| MLT 699 Hir thoughte a despit that he sholde take | 14788 |
| MLT 700 So strange a creature unto his make. | 14790 |
| MLT 702 Maken so long a tale as of the corn. | 14792 |
| MLT 705 Who bloweth in a trumpe or in an horn? | 14794 |
| MLT 713 And leye a lite hir hoolynesse aside, | 14802 |
| MLT 715 On hire he gat a knave child anon, | 14804 |
| MLT 716 And to a bisshop, and his constable eke, | 14806 |
| MLT 722 The tyme is come a knave child she beer; | 14812 |
| MLT 724 This constable dooth forth come a messageer, | 14814 |
| MLT 745 Out of his box, whil he sleep as a swyn; | 14834 |
| MLT 751 Of so horrible a feendly creature | 14840 |
| MLT 774 Thy mynde is lorn, thou janglest as a jay, | 14864 |
| MLT 775 Thy face is turned in a newe array. | 14864 |
| MLT 798 Thre dayes and o quarter of a tyde; | 14888 |
| MLT 812 So ful of synne is many a creature? | 14902 |
| MLT 822 And Custance, with a deedly pale face, | 14912 |
| MLT 844 For which thy child was on a croys yrent. | 14934 |
| MLT 911 Doun fro the castel comth ther many a wight | 15000 |
| MLT 913 But shortly, from the castel, on a nyght, | 15002 |
| MLT 915 A theef, that hadde reneyed oure creance, | 15004 |
| MLT 949 And somtyme est, ful many a wery day, | 15038 |
| MLT 953 Now lat us stynte of Custance but a throwe, | 15042 |
| MLT 957 Doon to his doghter by a fals traytour, | 15046 |
| MLT 965 Ful many a day; but shortly -- this is th' ende -- | 15054 |
| MLT 989 Upon a day fil in swich repentance | 15078 |
| MLT 1001 As to doon any kyng a reverence. | 15090 |
| MLT 1005 And so bifel that in a day or two | 15094 |
| MLT 1020 A mooder he hath, but fader hath he noon | 15110 |
| MLT 1021 That I of woot " -- and shortly, in a stounde, | 15110 |
| MLT 1024 " So vertuous a lyvere in my lyf | 15114 |
| MLT 1027 I dar wel seyn hir hadde levere a knyf | 15116 |
| MLT 1028 Thurghout hir brest, than ben a womman wikke; | 15118 |
| MLT 1031 As possible is a creature to be. | 15120 |
| MLT 1055 And she, for sorwe, as doumb stant as a tree, | 15144 |
| MLT 1075 And swich a blisse is ther bitwix hem two | 15164 |
| MLT 1120 A thousand foold wel moore than I kan telle. | 15210 |
| MLT 1143 Whan passed was a yeer, evene as I gesse, | 15232 |
| MLT 1165 This was a thrifty tale for the nones! | 15254 |
| MLT 1167 Telle us a tale, as was thi forward yore. | 15256 |
| MLT 1173 I smelle a Lollere in the wynd, " quod he. | 15262 |
| MLT 1176 For we schal han a predicacioun; | 15266 |
| MLT 1185 My joly body schal a tale telle, | 15274 |
| MLT 1186 And I schal clynken you so mery a belle, | 15276 |
| WBT 14 Herkne eek, lo, which a sharp word for the nones, | 15294 |
| WBT 15 Biside a welle, Jhesus, God and man, | 15294 |
| WBT 42 The firste nyght had many a myrie fit | 15322 |
| WBT 50 To wedde, a Goddes half, where it liketh me. | 15336 |
| WBT 66 Men may conseille a womman to been oon, | 15352 |
| WBT 74 A thyng of which his maister yaf noon heeste. | 15360 |
| WBT 79 I woot wel that th' apostel was a mayde; | 15364 |
| WBT 83 And for to been a wyf he yaf me leve | 15368 |
| WBT 99 For wel ye knowe, a lord in his houshold, | 15384 |
| WBT 103 And everich hath of God a propre yifte -- | 15388 |
| WBT 117 And of so parfit wys a [wright] ywroght? | 15402 |
| WBT 122 Were eek to knowe a femele from a male, | 15408 |
| WBT 122 Were eek to knowe a femele from a male, | 15408 |
| WBT 133 Thanne were they maad upon a creature | 15418 |
| WBT 139 Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man, | 15424 |
| WBT 139 Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man, | 15424 |
| WBT 140 And many a seint, sith that the world bigan; | 15426 |
| WBT 146 Oure Lord Jhesu refresshed many a man. | 15432 |
| WBT 165 Ye been a noble prechour in this cas. | 15450 |
| WBT 166 I was aboute to wedde a wyf; allas! | 15452 |
| WBT 209 A wys womman wol bisye hire evere in oon | 15494 |
| WBT 216 That many a nyght they songen `Weilawey!' | 15502 |
| WBT 228 Swere and lyen, as a womman kan. | 15514 |
| WBT 231 A wys wyf, if that she kan hir good, | 15516 |
| WBT 243 And if I have a gossib or a freend, | 15528 |
| WBT 243 And if I have a gossib or a freend, | 15528 |
| WBT 244 Withouten gilt, thou chidest as a feend, | 15530 |
| WBT 246 Thou comest hoom as dronken as a mous, | 15532 |
| WBT 248 Thou seist to me it is a greet meschief | 15534 |
| WBT 249 To wedde a povre womman, for costage; | 15534 |
| WBT 251 Thanne seistow that it is a tormentrie | 15536 |
| WBT 256 That is assailled upon ech a syde. | 15542 |
| WBT 263 Thou seyst men may nat kepe a castel wal, | 15548 |
| WBT 267 For as a spanyel she wol on hym lepe, | 15552 |
| WBT 272 A thyng that no man wole, his thankes, helde. | 15558 |
| WBT 280 Out of hir owene houses; a, benedicitee! | 15566 |
| WBT 284 Wel may that be a proverbe of a shrewe! | 15570 |
| WBT 284 Wel may that be a proverbe of a shrewe! | 15570 |
| WBT 297 And but thou make a feeste on thilke day | 15582 |
| WBT 306 Yet hastow caught a fals suspecioun. | 15592 |
| WBT 320 I knowe yow for a trewe wyf, dame Alys. " | 15606 |
| WBT 333 He is to greet a nygard that wolde werne | 15618 |
| WBT 334 A man to lighte a candle at his lanterne; | 15620 |
| WBT 334 A man to lighte a candle at his lanterne; | 15620 |
| WBT 347 I wol nat wirche as muchel as a gnat. | 15632 |
| WBT 348 Thou seydest this, that I was lyk a cat; | 15634 |
| WBT 349 For whoso wolde senge a cattes skyn, | 15634 |
| WBT 352 She wol nat dwelle in house half a day, | 15638 |
| WBT 370 But if a sely wyf be oon of tho? | 15656 |
| WBT 376 Thou seyest, right as wormes shende a tree, | 15662 |
| WBT 377 Right so a wyf destroyeth hire housbonde; | 15662 |
| WBT 399 Under that colour hadde I many a myrthe. | 15684 |
| WBT 417 And make me a feyned appetit; | 15702 |
| WBT 425 I ne owe hem nat a word that it nys quit. | 15710 |
| WBT 429 For thogh he looked as a wood leon, | 15714 |
| WBT 435 And han a sweete spiced conscience, | 15720 |
| WBT 439 That it is fair to have a wyf in pees. | 15724 |
| WBT 441 And sith a man is moore resonable | 15726 |
| WBT 448 I koude walke as fressh as is a rose; | 15734 |
| WBT 453 My fourthe housbonde was a revelour -- | 15738 |
| WBT 454 This is to seyn, he hadde a paramour -- | 15740 |
| WBT 456 Stibourn and strong, and joly as a pye. | 15742 |
| WBT 459 Whan I had dronke a draughte of sweete wyn! | 15744 |
| WBT 461 That with a staf birafte his wyf hir lyf, | 15746 |
| WBT 466 A likerous mouth moste han a likerous tayl. | 15752 |
| WBT 466 A likerous mouth moste han a likerous tayl. | 15752 |
| WBT 484 I made hym of the same wode a croce; | 15770 |
| WBT 516 In this matere a queynte fantasye: | 15802 |
| WBT 527 He som tyme was a clerk of Oxenford, | 15812 |
| WBT 534 For hadde myn housbonde pissed on a wal, | 15820 |
| WBT 535 Or doon a thyng that sholde han cost his lyf, | 15820 |
| WBT 542 Had toold to me so greet a pryvetee. | 15828 |
| WBT 543 And so bifel that ones in a Lente -- | 15828 |
| WBT 561 Upon my peril, frete hem never a deel; | 15846 |
| WBT 572 I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek | 15858 |
| WBT 572 I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek | 15858 |
| WBT 586 A ha! By God, I have my tale ageyn. | 15872 |
| WBT 591 But for that I was purveyed of a make, | 15876 |
| WBT 597 After the beere, me thoughte he hadde a paire | 15882 |
| WBT 602 But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth. | 15888 |
| WBT 605 As help me God, I was a lusty oon, | 15890 |
| WBT 618 My chambre of Venus from a good felawe. | 15904 |
| WBT 635 For that I rente out of his book a leef, | 15920 |
| WBT 637 Stibourn I was as is a leonesse, | 15922 |
| WBT 638 And of my tonge a verray jangleresse, | 15924 |
| WBT 646 Lookynge out at his dore upon a day. | 15932 |
| WBT 648 That, for his wyf was at a someres game | 15934 |
| WBT 667 Why that I rente out of his book a leef, | 15952 |
| WBT 669 He hadde a book that gladly, nyght and day, | 15954 |
| WBT 673 And eek ther was somtyme a clerk at Rome, | 15958 |
| WBT 674 A cardinal, that highte Seint Jerome, | 15960 |
| WBT 675 That made a book agayn Jovinian; | 15960 |
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