Al hadde folkes hertes been of stones, Hit mighte have maked hem upon her rewe, Her herte was so wyfly and so trewe.
But wel I wot, with that he can endyte, He hath maked lewed folk delyte +To serve you, in preysing of your name.
Al be hit that he can nat wel endyte, Yet hath he maked lewed folk delyte 415 +To serve you, in preysing of your name.
O sely womman, ful of innocence, Ful of pitee, of trouthe, and conscience, 1255 What maked yow to men to trusten so?
When that thou wendest homeward by the mill, Right at the entry of the door behind Thou shalt a cake of half a bushel find, That was y-maked of thine owen meal, Which that I help'd my father for to steal.
Who could it tell, or who could it indite, The joye that is maked in the place When Theseus hath done so fair a grace?
Margaryte is engendred by hevenly dewe, and sheweth in it-selfe, by fynenesse of colour, whether the engendrure were makedon morowe or on eve; thus sayth kynde of this perle.
Thynne) is a misprint for of the; for Chaucer has--'For of thinges that han ende may be maked comparisoun.
Whereof I am sory that 105 Japhetes children, for povert, in no linage ben rekened, and Caynes children, for riches, be maked Japhetes heires.
Of whiche right sone, I trowe, if thou wolt understonde, thou shalt conne yeve the sentence to the partie more probable 120 by reson, and in soth knowing, by that I have of this mater maked an ende.
A lyte speche hath maked that al this labour is in ydel.
This affeccion of wil by liberte of arbitrement is enduced to wilne thus thing that 160 he shulde not; and so is wil not maked yvel but unrightful, by absence of rightfulnesse, whiche thing by reson ever shulde he have.
I am accused that I sholde han destourbed the accuser to beren lettres, by whiche he sholde han maked the senatoures gilty ayeins the kinges real maiestee.
Ne it ne sholde nat semen to us, that god is elder thanne thinges that ben y-maked by quantitee of tyme, but rather by the propretee of his simple nature.
But, for sothe, it nis nat of naught, for it hath his propre causes; of whiche causes the cours unforeseyn and unwar semeth to han maked hap.
For yif ther were maked comparisoun of the abydinge of a moment to ten thousand winter, for as mochel as bothe the spaces ben ended, yit hath the moment som porcioun of it, al-though it litel be.
Circes the enchaunteresse, that chaungeth the bodyes of folkes in-to bestes, to regard and to comparisoun of mutacioun that is maked by 25 vyces); ne the herbes of Circes ne ben nat mighty.
And 15 whanne he hath y-doon ther y-nough, he shal forleten the laste hevene, and he shal pressen and wenden on the bak of the swifte firmament, and he shal ben maked parfit of the worshipful light of god.
But this to Chaucer would have been more than a sin, it would have been an obvious artistic blunder; and when the ribaldry begins in earnest, the best manuscripts break off with "of this Cook's tale maked Chaucer no more.
His housinge, his array, as honestly To his degree wasmaked as a kinges.
Whan that assented was this cursed reed, Glad was this Iuge and makedhim greet chere, And yaf hym yiftes preciouse and dere.
Who couthe telle, or who couthe it endyte, The Ioye that is makedin the place Whan Theseus hath doon so fair a grace?
Ye semed by your speche and your visage The day that maked was our mariage!
Duk Theseus, with al his bisy cure, Caste now wher that the sepulture Of good Arcite may best y-maked be, 2855 And eek most honurable in his degree.
But thou mayst seyn, thy princes han thee maked Ministre of deeth; for if thou speke of mo, 485 Thou lyest, for thy power is ful naked.
This maked Emelye have remembraunce To doon honour to May, and for to ryse.
Lai le Freine has: And maked a lay and yaf it name.
Hwand to Staveren and allingen that Alderga ther wrdon tha besta werskepa maked fon herde eken wod ther nimmerthe nen rot an ne kvmth.
Tha that er fjuwer and tvintich jer were, heth sin tat maked that-er to Asega-askar keren is.
Symacus þi wyues fadir whiche þat is a man makedal of sapience {and} of vertue.
The note, I trowe, maked was in Fraunce; The wordes wer swich as ye may heer finde, The nexte vers, as I now have in minde.
This maked Emelye han remembraunce To don honour to May, and for to ryse.
Ye semede by your speche and your visage, speech That day that maked was our mariage!
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