Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury TalesChaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer, Geoffrey
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500
That in Israel, as wyd as is the lond, 1880
That so gret feith in al the lond he ne fond
As in a woman; and this is no lye.
And as of men, loketh which tirannye
They doon alday; assay hem who so liste,
The trewest is ful brotel for to triste. 1885
EXPLICIT LEGENDA LUCRECIE ROME, MARTIRIS.
1681. F. B. dedes; _rest_ doinges. 1682. Addit. (12524) And; _rest om._
1685. F. B. to (_for_ and); _rest_ and. 1686. C. trewe; _rest om._ 1689. F.
Tn. Th. B. _om._ he. 1693. F. _omits this line; I give the spelling as in_
MS. T., _changing_ thyng _into_ thing. 1696, 1697. C. F. Tn. Th. B.
wroughten, thoughten; _but_ thoughten _is bad grammar_; T. A. Add. wrought,
thought. 1701. C. no; _rest om._ 1705. C. highte; Tn. hat; _rest_ hyght
(_perhaps read_ hatte). 1710. _So_ C. T. Add.; _rest_ to Rome to nyght.
1715. B. estres; C. A. estris; F. Tn. esters; T. estes (!); Th. efters
(!!). 1716. _All but_ T. Add. _needlessly insert_ ful _after_ And. 1718. C.
they gan abyde. 1720. C. Discheuele; F. Disshevely. 1721. T. Add. oure boke
seyth; C. seyth (_om._ our book); Th. saith Liui; _rest_ seyth our boke.
1725. C seith; F. sayne. 1727. C. Th. so; _rest_ to. 1728. C. sore; _rest_
to (_badly_). 1729, 1730. C. _has_--That with a swerd me thynkyth that to
myn herte It styngith me whan I thynke on that place. 1730. T. A. Add. the
sege; F. Tn. B. these (_for_ the sege); Th. this. 1731. F. my; _rest_ his
(_before_ grace). 1736. F. the (_for_ her). A. T. honestee; C. oneste; B.
heuyte (!); F. hevytee (!); Tn. Th. heuynesse. 1737. C. Emblemyschid (!).
Th. chastnesse. C. _puts_ ll. 1738-9 _after_ l. 1743. 1744. C. kiste;
_rest_ kissed. 1747. C. T. A. Add. shap; _rest_ bounte. 1749. C. nas;
_rest_ was. 1751. C. brende; B. brente; F. Tn. brent. 1752. C. is al; Th.
A. was al; _rest_ was. 1754. C. T. A. Add. that; _rest om._ 1757. F. Tn.
Th. B. On; _rest_ A. 1760. C. Thymage; _rest_ The ymage. 1763. F. T. This;
_rest_ Thus. 1764. C. A. now; _rest_ newe (new). 1766. C. Yit (_for_ That).
1770. C. _om._ But. 1773. C. T. A. alday; _rest_ alway. 1776. C. forth he
rit; A. Addit. (12524) forth he ride; F. Tn. Th. he forth right (!). 1784.
C. T. A. Add. Were hit; _rest_ Whether. 1787. F. felt; C. felte. 1793. C.
thour-out; T. thorout; A. throughout; _rest om._ out. 1795. C. T. A. Add.
point; _rest_ swerd. C. vp-on; T. opon; Tn. Th. on; _rest_ unto. 1798. C.
T. A. fynt; Add. fyndyth; _rest_ fayneth _or_ feyneth (!). C. lomb; Add.
lombe; T. A. Th. lambe; _rest_ loue (!). 1801. C. T. A. Add. that; _rest
om._ 1802. F. Add. sterte; _rest_ asterte (astert). 1804. C. T. A. Add.
seyth; _rest_ seyde. 1805. C. A. Add. he; T. tho; _rest om._ 1807. F. Tn.
Th. B. _om._ As. 1809. C. auouterye; F. avowtrye. 1811. C. T. A. Add. non
other; _rest_ not. 1815. C. at onys bothe; _rest_ bothe atones. 1816. C.
wex; B. wexe; Tn. wax; T. wexed; A. wox; F. Th. woxe. 1821. F. Tn. Th. B.
_om. 2nd_ as. C. worthi (_for_ verray). 1823. C. T. A. Add.
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