And though povere men profre yow Presentes and giftes, Nyme it noght, an aventure Ye mowe it noght deserve; For thow shalt yelde it ayein 3880 At one yeres tyme, In a ful perilous place, Purgatorie it hatte.
Holi writ bit men be war, I wol noght write it here In Englisshe, on aventure It sholde be reherced to ofte, And greve therwith goode men, Ac gramariens shul redde.
The culorum of this cas Kepe I noght to telle, On aventure it noyed men, Noon ende wol I make, 1930 For so is this world went With hem that han power, That who so seith hem sothest Is sonnest y-blamed.
A marchaunt that for ones lesinge in the see no more to aventure thinketh, he shal never with aventure come to richesse.
The worldes chaunces upon aventure Ben ever set; but thilke chaunce of pees Is so behovely to the creature That it above al other is peerlees.
Myne aventure heir tak will I, "Quhethir it be eisfull or angry.
The constabill syne can he ta, And gert him suere that he suld ga 264 To King Ethiocles, and tell The aventure that thame befell.
Tharfor inaventure till de He wald him put or he wald fle.
To worship no wight by aventure May come, but-if he peyne endure.
What cas,' quod Troilus, 'or what aventure Hath gyded thee to see my languisshinge, That am refus of euery creature?
For evere upon such aventure 260 It is a confort, as men sein, To him the which is wo besein To sen an other in his peine, So that thei bothe mai compleigne.
Thus for the pite which he tok Alle othre leches he forsok, And put him out of aventure Al only into goddes cure; And seith, "Who that woll maister be, He mot be servant to pite.
Mi fader, of this aventure Which ye have told, I you assure Min herte is sory forto hiere, Bot only for I wolde lere What is to done, and what to leve.
Nou herkne, and I thee telle schal An aventure that he soghte, Which afterward ful dere he boghte.
The Belle Aventure was a trim yacht of perhaps seventy feet, low, slim, and graceful, driven by a powerful gas-engine and capable of going almost anywhere.
Kennedy lost no time in getting back to the Belle Aventure with the skull which I had concealed for him.
The moder was an elf, by aventure Y-come, by charmes or by sorcerye, 755 And every wight hateth hir companye.
But thus they mette, of aventureor grace; (780) And he saleweth hir with glad entente, And asked of hir whiderward she wente?
For trewely, but he be war, he may ful lightly quiken the fyr of angre and of wratthe, which that he sholde quenche, and per-aventure sleeth him which that he mighte chastyse with benignitee.
Al be it that this aventure was falle, He nolde noght disconforten hem alle.
The fyres which that on myn auter brenne 2355 Shul thee declaren, er that thou go henne, Thyn aventure of love, as in this cas.
Easter, "Magic Elements in the romans d'aventure and the romans bretons, p.
How the noble duke Scipion Affrican put hym in so gret aventure in his gret age ayens the Cartages, that he died upon,[157] rathir than to life in servage.
He states that from a hundred to six score Englishmen were there either killed or taken prisoners: "Entre les autres y fut prins le sire de Faucquembergue, qui d'aventure y estoit venu la nuict.
And therfore the aventure of Publius Decius ys not aftyr cristen lawes comended by hys willefulle deth, nother hys son.
Such a burnishing of arms and armor; such a getting out of old materials of war; such a polishing of decks and making of sails and mounting of guns on the good ship Bon Aventure as never was known.
Even then there came from the harbor a ringing of bells and the shouts of the sailors as they drew up the anchor of the Bon Aventure from its bed in the sands.
I remember my last glimpse of them ere the Bon Aventuresunk over the rim of ocean, and evening seemed all at once to settle on the world.
My lord had left his books, and standing by the prow of the Bon Aventure gazed through his telescope upon that far-away vision that hung like a great golden bird against the purple of the after-sunset.
NOTE Those that in their travels in France have had the good-fortune to visit the Abbey of Bonne Aventure in Poitou can hardly fail to be familiar with the many and varied treasures of the abbey library.
Those, therefore, who thirst for the exact text of the tale, must either wait in patience for Professor Pawling's long promised edition, or satisfy their curiosity by a visit to the Abbey of Bonne Aventure in Poitou.
What cas,' quod Troilus, `or what aventure Hath gyded thee to see my languisshinge, That am refus of euery creature?
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