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"Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was."
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), British poet. The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue," l. 323-4 (c. 1387-1400), repr. In The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Alfred W. Pollard, et al. (1898).
Referring to the Sergeant of Law. |
"The smylere with the knyf under the cloke."
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), British poet. The Canterbury Tales, "The Knight's Tale," l. 1999 (c. 1387-1400), repr. In The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Alfred W. Pollard, et al. (1898). |
"For I am shave as neigh as any frere.
But yit I praye unto youre curteisye:
Beeth hevy again, or elles moot I die."
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. The Complaint of Chaucer to His Empty Purse (l. 19-21). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). |
"Ye purs, that been to me my lives light
And saviour, as in this world down here,
Out of this tonne helpe me thurgh your might,"
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. The Complaint of Chaucer to His Empty Purse (l. 15-17). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). |
"Soun is noght but air ybroken,
And every speche that is spoken,
Loud or privee, foul or fair,
In his substaunce is but air;
For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke,
Right so soun is air ybroke."
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400), British poet. the eagle, in The House of Fame, bk. 2, l. 257-62 (1374-1385), repr. In The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Alfred W. Pollard, et al. (1898). |
"But in the dome of mighty Mars the red,"
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. The Knight's Tale. . ;
from THE CANTERBURY TALES Collected Black Women's Poetry. Vols. I-IV. Joan R. Sherman, ed. (1988) Oxford University Press. |
"There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
The city to the soldier's rage resigned;
Successless wars, and poverty behind;
Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
And the cook caught within the raging fire he made."
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. The Knight's Tale. . ;
from THE CANTERBURY TALES Collected Black Women's Poetry. Vols. I-IV. Joan R. Sherman, ed. (1988) Oxford University Press. |
"Heaven froze above, severe; the clouds congeal,
And through the crystal vault appeared the standing hail."
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. The Knight's Tale. . ;
from THE CANTERBURY TALES Collected Black Women's Poetry. Vols. I-IV. Joan R. Sherman, ed. (1988) Oxford University Press. |
"There saw I how the secret felon wrought,
And treason labouring in the traitor's thought,
And midwife Time the ripened plot to murder brought."
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. The Knight's Tale. . ;
from THE CANTERBURY TALES Collected Black Women's Poetry. Vols. I-IV. Joan R. Sherman, ed. (1988) Oxford University Press. |
"And he was redy with his iren hoot,
And Nicholas amidde the ers he smoot:"
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. The Miller's Tale (l. 701-702). . ;
from THE CANTERBURY TALES Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). |
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