Right here anoon thou shalt be shriven, And sey thy sinne withoute more; Of this shall thou repente sore; For I am preest, and have poustee To shryve folk of most dignitee 7680 That been, as wyde as world may dure.
Of al this world thewyde compas 5 Hit wol not in myn armes tweyne.
But ay the oynement wente abrood; Throughout my woundes large and wyde It spredde aboute in every syde; 1900 Through whos vertu and whos might Myn herte Ioyful was and light.
His breeth is also good and swete, And eke his lippis rody, and mete Only to pleyen, and to kisse.
Here begins Fragment C; in which the ranks of the besiegers are joined by other assistants of a doubtful and treacherous character, viz.
The night shalt thou contene so, Withoute rest, in peyne and wo; If ever thou knewe of love distresse, Thou shalt mowe lerne in that siknesse.
Godefroy explains it in the same way; it terminated the dependent end of the girdle; and this explains how it could be made of a stone.
Thou shalt not knowe therof more 4695 Whyle thou art reuled by his lore; But unto him that love wol flee, The knotte may unclosed be, Which hath to thee, as it is founde, So long be knet and not unbounde.
Trewely she was, to myn ye, The soleyn fenix of Arabye, For ther liveth never but oon; Ne swich as she ne knew I noon.
We must either read They had been turmented (as I give it) or else We had turmented (as in Bell).
And eek amidde this purpryse Was maad a tour of gret maistryse; A fairer saugh no man with sight, Large and wyde, and of gret might.
The rime of lie (to tell a lie) with sie (I saw), in st.
But me to rede out of this drede or gye 340 Ne may my wit, so weyk is hit, not strecche.
The lasse bigyled he sholde have been And he hadde than perceyved it, But richesse nold not late him wit.
Henry Scogan's poem in which Chaucer's Gentilesse is not quoted, the requisite stanzas being entirely omitted.
They are quite unconnected, but are formed with the same fem.
Tharfor apon gret hardyment 775 He suddanly set his entent; And gert all wyde set up the yhet, And the fyre that he fand thar-at With strinth of men he put away.
And thai with speris woundis wyde Gaf to the hors that com thame neir: And thai that rydand on thame weir, That doune war born, lossit the lyvis.
What betokeneth youre grete hood, your scaplerye, youre 50 knotted girdel, and youre wyde cope?
Wyde wonders ouer all 8 Of that same hornes great vertues weren told, Which had approued bene in vses manifold.
Ronald Wyde bent over the body and looked into its face.
Ronald Wyde looked once more at the sodden features of the corpse, and smiled lugubriously.
Ronald Wyde bent toward the globe once more and examined the throbbing mass closely, whistling softly meanwhile.
It was not without a very natural sinking of the heart that Ronald Wyde divested himself of his clothing, and took his position, by the old man's direction, on the stout table, side by side with the dead.
Ronald Wyde slowly drew it from his pocket, as reluctantly as though it were a grudged charity dole, and extended it to the old man.
Ronald Wyde mounted the stairs, locked himself in his room, and wished himself out of the scrape he was getting into.
You would have smethd onne Wedecestrian fielde, Botte hee behylte the flughorne for to cleyne, Throwynge onne hyswyde backe, hys wyder spreddynge shielde.
Wyde wonders over all 25 Of that same hornes great vertues weren told, Which had approved bene in uses manifold.
This wyde world thogh that I sholde winne, Ne have I nat twelf pens with-inne myn hold.
Thurgh-out this wydeworld his name ran, What for his strengthe, and for his heigh bountee, And every reaume wente he for to see.
This wyde world, which that men seye is round, (500) I wolde it yeve, if I were lord of it.
This wyde world, as in conclusioun, He wan by strengthe, or for his hye renoun 3825 They weren glad for pees un-to him sende.
The sclaundre of Walter ofte and wyde spradde, That of a cruel herte he wikkedly, For he a povre womman wedded hadde, Hath mordred bothe his children prively.
And God, that al thiswyde world hath wroght, Sende him his love, that hath it dere a-boght.
And wyde without mesure: theyr stuffe to wast thus gothe But other some they suffer to dye for lacke of clothe.
A ii As Gammer Gurton with manye a wyde styche Sat pesynge and patching of Hodg her mans briche, By chance or misfortune, as shee her geare tost, In Hodge lether bryches her needle shee lost.
This nomber is smale, there lacketh twayne of ten, And yet, by the masse, amonge ten thousand men No one thynge could stande more wyde from the tother; Not one of theyr sewtes agreeth wyth an other.
Meny seint sitthe Suffrede deth alsoo, For to enferme the faithe Ful wydewhere deyden, In Inde and in Alisaundrie, In Ermanye, in Spayne; An fro mysbyleve Meny man turnede.
That dai schal falle, I hope so, That I schal telle out al mi fille, And with mi speche I schal fulfille 5660 The wyde world in brede and lengthe.
Thus was this false treson hidd, Which afterward was wyde kidd, As be the tale a man schal hiere.
Ther was an yle, which Colchos Was cleped, and therof aros Gret speche in every lond aboute, That such merveile was non oute In al the wyde world nawhere, As tho was in that yle there.
Bot yet al only he ne streccheth His reule upon religioun, Bot next to that condicioun In suche as clepe hem holy cherche It scheweth ek how he can werche Among tho wyde furred hodes, To geten hem the worldes goodes.
Eson, whan that he wiste of this, Hou that his Sone comen is, And hath achieved that he soughte And hom with him Medea broughte, In al the wyde world was non So glad a man as he was on.
Thus hast thou herd in what degre Of Grece, Egipte and of Caldee The misbelieves whilom stode; And hou so that thei be noght goode Ne trewe, yit thei sprungen oute, Wherof the wyde world aboute His part of misbelieve tok.
The fame, which goth wyde where, Makth knowe how that the Gregois were 1020 Homward with al the felaschipe Fro Troie upon the See be Schipe.
Of al this world the wyde compas Hit wol not in myn armes tweyne.
As Gammer Gurton, with manye a wyde styche, Sat pesynge and patching of Hodg her mans briche, By chance or misfortune, as shee her geare tost, In Hodge lether bryches her needle shee lost.
A wyde mouth withoute meesure, as thought it were cutte and stretched out, sygnifieth ravening inhumanitie, wickednes, a warlyke hart and cruell, like unto beastes of the sea.
Euro(TM) aEuro~There ys a gyante here be-syde, 960 In ale thys covntre fare andwyde No mane on lyve levythe hee.
Euro(TM) 959 aEuro~There lyeth a gyaunte here besyde, For all this londe brode and wyde No man on lyue leueth he.
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