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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WIF OF BATHES TALE. In olde days 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; I speke of many hundred yeres ago, But now can no man see non elves mo; For now the grete charitee and prayeres Of limitoures and other holy freres, That serchen every land and every streme, As thikke as motes in the sonne-beme, Blissing halles, chambres, kichenes, and boures, - Citees and burghes, castles highe and toures, Thropes and bernes, shepenes and dairies, This maketh that ther ben no Faeries: For ther as wont to walken was an elf, Ther walketh now the limatour himself In undermeles and in morweninges, And sayth his matines and his holy thinges As he goth in his limitatioun. Women may now go safely up and doun, In every bush, and under every tree, Ther is non other Incubus but he, And he ne' will don hem no dishonour, And so befell it that this King Artoui Had in his hous a lusty bacheler, That on a day came riding fro river: And happed that, alone as she was borne, He saw a maiden walking him beforne, Of which maid he anon, maugre hire hed, By veray force beraft hire maidenhed: For which oppression was swiche clamour, And swiche pursuite unto the King Artour, That damned was this knight for to be ded, By cours of lawe, and shuld have lost his hed, (Paraventure swiche was the statute tho) But that the quene and other ladies mo So longe praieden the king of grace, Til he his lif him granted in the place, And yaf him to the quene, all at hire will To chese whether she wold him save or spill. The quene thanketh the king with all hire might; And after this thus spake she to the knight, Whan that she saw hire time up...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459004825 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459004825 |
| Weight | 1.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.93 In |
| List Price | $23.37 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 416 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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