 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1855 - 636 pages
...worthy frere. Yes, dame, quod he, tell forth, and I wol here. ma fff IN olde dayes of the king Artour,4 Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, All was...; The Elf-quene, with hire joly compagnie, Danced in I oft in many a grene mede This was the old opinion as I rede ;| • Brother. a Sing, >. t., laugh,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1855 - 400 pages
...great honour All was this land fulfilled of fayry; The Elfquene with her jolly company Dansed full oft in many a grene mede, This was the old opinion as I rede, I speke of many hundred yere ago, But now can no man se none elfis mo. For now the grete charity and... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 622 pages
...this worthy frere. Yes, dame, quod he, tell forth, and I wol here. IN olde dayes of the king Artour,4 Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, All was...many a grene mede This was the old opinion as I rede ;i ' Brother. - Sing, i. «., laugbv chuckle. — Sec Tymtttt. 8 Interpose. 4 I hope that Chaucer,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 490 pages
...ancient Fairy dom are thus translated into poetry by Chaucer in The Wif of Bathes Tale : " In olde dayes of the King Artour, Of which that Bretons speken...many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede j I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non elves mo, For now the grete charitee... | |
 | George Philip Rigney Pulman - 1857 - 192 pages
...and how old Dan Chaucer bears testimony to the antiquity of the poetical superstition:— ' In old dayes of the King Artour, Of which that Bretons speken...lond fulfilled of faerie; The elf-quene, with hire jolie company, Daunsed full oft in many a grene mede,' &c. The 'elf-quene' was the aforesaid Mab, the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 672 pages
...Anfang von The Wif of Bathes Tale: In aide daycs of the king Ariour, Of which that Bretona ¡pcken gret honour, All was this lond fulfilled of faerie;...compagnie, Danced fuL oft in many a grene mede. This wan the old opinion as I rede; I speke of many hundred y eres ago; But now can no man see non elves... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1860 - 598 pages
...dame, quod he, tell forth, and I wol here. THE WIF OF BATHES TALE. IN olde dayes of the king Artonr, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, All was...many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non elves mo, For now the grete charitee... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1860 - 578 pages
...Wife of Bath's Tale." " In olde dayes of the King Artonr, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, AT was this lond fulfilled of faerie ; The elf-quene,...many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede ; I speke of many hundred yeres ago ; But now can no man see non elves mo, For now the grete charitee... | |
 | Gustav Schneider - 1863 - 390 pages
...distourblide U. ff «не Sljaucei'á „Wif of Bathes Tales" (Slnfang bee ©tüáee). In olde days of the King Artour, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, All was this lond fullfilled of Faerie : The Elf quene with hire joly compagnie Danced ful oft in many a grene me de... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1866 - 352 pages
...which that Bretons speke gret hondur, All was this land ful filled of faerie; The elf-quene, with her joly compagnie, Danced ful oft in many a grene mede : This was the old opinion as I rede." CHAUCER, Wif of Bathes Tale. Allusions to, and descriptions of a future state—a life beyond the present... | |
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IN olde dayes of the king Artour, Of which that Bretons speken gret honour, All was this lond fulfilled of faerie; The Elf-quene, with hire joly compagnie, Danced ful oft in many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede... 
