These gentlemen and ladyes sate on the neyther part of the rock, and out of a cave in the same rock came ten knightes armed at all poyntes, and faughte together a fayre tournay.
Ther been so worthy knightes in this place, And ye so fair, that everich of hem alle 170 Wol peynen him to stonden in your grace.
A morwe the under tide is come And Orfeo hath his armes y nome, And wele ten hundred knightes with him, Ich y armed stout and grim; And with the quen wenten he, Right unto that ympe tre.
And also of the vaillaunt chosen knightes of the noble and worshipfulle ordre of the Garter, founded by the right noble prince king Edward thrid, and to bere about his legge a tokyn of the Garter, in the castelle of Wynsore, the .
Chapletts freshe of oke serriall Newly spronge and Trompetts they were all; I denye that therefore in the Knightes Tale yt must be oke serriall.
London, the "famous order of knightes of prince Arthur's round table or society: like as in his life time when he sawe a good archer in deede, he chose him and ordained such a one for a knight of the same order.
I was by birth a lady faire, 5 An ancient barons only heire, And when my good old father dyed, Then I became a young knightes bride.
Then twelve good knightesking Arthure chose, 25 The best of all that with him were: To parley with the foe in field, And make with him agreement faire.
The Knightes Tale presents largely, I think, the humorous side of it, Troilus and Criseyde, the tragic, although there is some tragedy in the Knightes Tale and some comedy in Troilus.
In an earlier passage in theKnightes Tale[157], (see p.
The specific influences of Saturn are mentioned in detail in the Knightes Tale.
The Knightes Tale, which is the first, is also the best.
Although the King's Quair is suggestive of The Knightes Tale, and indeed owes much to Chaucer, it is a poetic record of genuine and successful love.
Then he tooke up the bloudy hand, That was so large of bone, And on it he founde five ringes of gold, Of knightes that had be slone.
The Eldridge knight is his own cousine, Whom a knight of thine hath shent; And hee is come to avenge his wrong: And to thee, all thy knightes among, Defiance here hath sent.
The Bishop shall be blamed before God, as I leve [believe] That crowneth such goddes knightes that conneth nought sapienter Synge ne psalmes rede ne segge a masse of the day.
And again:-- "Then were the gates shut, and cried was loude Now do your devoir younge knightes proud.
Foules, and afterwards from the Knightes Tale, merely giving such lines as shew a faint likeness, and printing unchanged words in italics.
It is remarkable that the metre is the same as that of the Knightes Tale; from which, perhaps, it was borrowed.
We only know that the Persones Tale was to have been the last, as the Knightes was the first.
A table shewing the general resemblance between certain lines in the Knightes Tale and lines in the Teseide, is given in the Notes; to which I must refer the reader for further information.
We may observe that Chaucer has evidently assigned the first place to the Knightes Tale, as being, in his own opinion, the best.
A modernisation of the Knightes Tale by Lord Thurlow appeared in 1822; concerning which nothing need be said.
Many knightes did put themselues in redinesse to atchieue that enterprise, and aboue al, Philon was the chiefe, not for gredinesse of the kingdome, but for loue which hee bare vnto the Gentlewoman.
It is my selfe, that erst was rouing amid the troupe of Courtlie knightes decked with comely face, whose hewe dame Nature stayned with the colours of her golden art.
That child did off the knightes wede, And anon he gan him schrede In that rich armour.
And right so fared they with Palamon; With him there wente knightes many one.
Finally, Chaucer used Palamon and Arcite as the basis of The Knightes Tale.
This episode, as we shall see, is the opening of the Knightes Tale, and reappears in a modified form in The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Apart from these incidents in Theseus' life, Chaucer supplies the dramatist with all he requires in the opening of The Knightes Tale, which we shall discuss in full shortly.
We must now consider what justification there is for believing that the main plot of A Midsummer-Night's Dream was suggested by The Knightes Tale.
After some little trouble, I have arrived at the conclusion that Chaucer has given us sufficient data for ascertaining both the days of the month and of the week of many of the principal events of the "Knightes Tale.
It is only possible to give here a mere general idea of the way in which the Knightes Tale is related to the Teseide of Boccaccio.
But Chaucer even uses it of Arcite, in the Knightes Tale, and of Cupid, Ho.
He afterwards recast the whole, at the same time changing the metre; and the result was the Knightes Tale, as we here have it.
For pitee renneth sone in gentil herte'; Knightes Tale, A.
Thus the Knightes Tale is not derived immediately from Boccaccio or from Statius, but through the medium of an older poem [61] of Chaucer's own composition.
I see a serpent or a theef, That many a trewe man hath doon mescheef; Knightes Tale, 467 (A.
The references to the Knightes Tale are to the lines of group A (as in the text); those to the Teseide are to the books and stanzas.
The phrase gaping upright occurs elsewhere (see Knightes Tale, A.
Emelye, in the Knightes Tale, is described as gathering white and red flowers to make 'a sotil gerland' for her head; A.
In the Knightes Tale, Chaucer has humblesse, and in the Persones Tale, humilitee.
He afterwards repeated it in the Knightes Tale, A.
Tyrwhitt himself prints min avow in the Knightes Tale, A.
In the yeare 1471, John Stockton, mayor, and eleven aldermen of London, with the recorder, were all madeknightes in the fielde by Edward IV.
Canto ix The house of Temperance, in which doth sober Alma dwell, Besiegd of many foes, whom straunger knightes to flight compell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knightes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
