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Автор: Chaucer Geoffrey
Название: The Canterbury Tales (Annotated)
ISBN: 9781976731402
Издательство: Independently Published
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1976731402
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 554
Вес: 1.26 кг.
Дата издания: 25.12.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 27.94 x 21.59 x 2.84 cm
Поставляется из: США
Описание: This is an annotated version of the book 1. contains an updated biography of the author at the end of the book for a better understanding of the text. 2. This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors HERE BIGINNETH THE BOOK OF THE TALES OF CAUNTERBURY. Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth 5 Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, That slepen al the night with open y , 10 (So priketh hem nature in hir corages): Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages (And palmers for to seken straunge strondes) To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende 15 Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke. HEADING. _From_ E. 1. E. hise; _rest_ his. 8. Hl. halfe; _rest_ half. 9. Hl. fowles; Pt. Ln. foules; E. Hn. foweles. 10. Hl. yhe; Hn. Iye; E. eye. 12. Pt. Ln. Than; E. Thanne. E. pilg_ri_mage (_by mistake_). 13. Pt. Hl. palmers; E. Palmeres. 16. Hn. Caunter-; E. Cauntur-. 18. E. seeke. Bifel that, in that seson on a day, In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay 20 Redy to wenden on my pilgrimage To Caunterbury with ful devout corage, 2: T. 23-58.] At night was come in-to that hostelrye Wel nyne and twenty in a companye, Of sondry folk, by aventure y-falle 25 In felawshipe, and pilgrims were they alle, That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde; The chambres and the stables weren wyde, And wel we weren esed atte beste. And shortly, whan the sonne was to reste, 30 So hadde I spoken with hem everichon, That I was of hir felawshipe anon, And made forward erly for to ryse, To take our wey, ther as I yow devyse. 19. Hn. Bifel; E. Bifil. 23. E. were; _rest_ was. 24. E. Hn. compaignye. 26, 32. E. felaweshipe. Hl. pilgryms; E. pilgrimes. 34. E. oure. But natheles, whyl I have tyme and space, 35 Er that I ferther in this tale pace, Me thinketh it acordaunt to resoun, To telle yow al the condicioun Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, And whiche they weren, and of what degree; 40 And eek in what array that they were inne: And at a knight than wol I first biginne. 35. E. Hn. nathelees. 40. Hl. weren; _rest_ were, weere. A KNIGHT ther was, and that a worthy man, KNIGHT. That fro the tyme that he first bigan To ryden out, he loved chivalrye, 45 Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisye. Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre, And therto hadde he riden (no man ferre) As wel in Cristendom as hethenesse, And ever honoured for his worthinesse. 50

The Canterbury Tales (Annotated), Chaucer Geoffrey