The Tale of Beryn: With a Prologue of the Merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury

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Frederick James Furnivall, William Alexander Clouston, Walter George Boswell-Stone, Frederick John Vipan
Early English Text Society, 1909 - 240 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 174 - Among the other spectacles of rare and stupendous luxury was a tree of gold and silver spreading into eighteen large branches, on which, and on the lesser boughs, sat a variety of birds made of the same precious metals, as well as the leaves of the tree. While the machinery affected spontaneous motions, the several birds warbled their natural harmony. Through this scene of magnificence the Greek ambassador was led by the vizier to the foot of the caliph's throne.
الصفحة viii - ... that they come through, what with the noise of their singing. and with the sound of their piping, and with the jangling of their Canterbury bells, and with the barking out of dogs after them, they make more noise than if the king came there away with all his clarions, and many other minstrels.
الصفحة 175 - Hurlewaynes meyne, is the Maisnie Hellequin of old French popular superstition, in Latin familia Harlequini. The name is spelt in different ways, Hellequin, Herlequin, Henequin, &c. The legend was, that Charles the Fifth of France, and his men, who fell all in a great battle, were condemned for their crimes to wander over the world on horseback, constantly employed in fighting battles. Some derived the name from that of the Emperor, Charles quint, Charlequin, Herlequin, Hellequin. Of course this...

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