Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales — The Prioresses Tale (1900)

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Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer,  The Canterbury Tales — The Prioresses Tale (1900)

“ Thurgh thyn humblesse, the goost that in thalighte, 1660
Of whos vertu, whan he thyn herte lighte,
Conceived was the fadres sapience, (20)
Help me to telle it in thy reverence!
Lady! thy bountee, thy magnificence,
Thy vertu, and thy grete humilitee 1665
Ther may no tonge expresse in no science;
For som-tyme, lady, er men praye to thee,
Thou goost biforn of thy benignitee,
And getest us the light, thurgh thy preyere,
To gyden us un-to thy sone so dere. ”
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Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer,  The Canterbury Tales — The Prioresses Tale (1900)

“ Twyës a day it passed thurgh his throte,
To scoleward and homward whan he wente;
On Cristes moder set was his entente. 1740
As I have seyd, thurgh-out the Iewerye
This litel child, as he cam to and fro, (100)
Ful merily than wolde he singe, and crye
O Alma redemptoris ever-mo.
The swetnes hath his herte perced so 1745
Of Cristes moder, that, to hir to preye,
He can nat stinte of singing by the weye.
Our firste fo, the serpent Sathanas,
That hath in Iewes herte his waspes nest,
Up swal, and seide, 'o Hebraik peple, allas! ”
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Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer,  The Canterbury Tales — The Prioresses Tale (1900)

“ Draweth no monkes more un-to your in.
But now passe over, and lat us seke aboute,
Who shal now telle first, of al this route, (10)
Another tale;' and with that word he sayde, 1635
As curteisly as it had been a mayde,
'My lady Prioresse, by your leve,
So that I wiste I sholde yow nat greve,
I wolde demen that ye tellen sholde
A tale next, if so were that ye wolde. 1640
Now wol ye vouche-sauf, my lady dere?'
'Gladly,' quod she, and seyde as ye shal here. (18)
Explicit. ”
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