item: #1 of 5
          id: 3624
      author: Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
       title: Chaucer
        date: None
       words: 62416
      flesch: 59
     summary: John Chaucer, whose wife's Christian name may be with tolerable safety set down as Agnes, owned a house in Thames Street, London, not far from the arch on which modern pilgrims pass by rail to Canterbury or beyond, and in the neighbourhood of the great bridge, which in Chaucer's own day, emptied its travellers on their errands, sacred or profane, into the great Southern road, the Via Appia of England. The passage has been often quoted in which Chaucer half implies a feeling of the kind, and tells how he sought recreation from what Charles Lamb would have called his works at the Custom House in the reading, as we know he did in the writing, of other books:-- --when thy labour done all is, And hast y-made reckonings, Instead of rest and newe things Thou go'st home to thine house anon, And there as dumb as any stone Thou sittest at another book.
    keywords: age; author; book; canterbury; century; character; chaucer; church; course; cressid; days; death; england; english; fame; find; forth; french; god; good; gower; half; hand; house; influence; john; king; legend; life; literature; long; love; man; men; middle; nature; original; parson; passage; people; period; poem; poet; prologue; reason; richard; rose; sir; spirit; story; tale; thou; thy; time; truth; way; wife; women; works; year
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 37277
      author: Coulton, G. G. (George Gordon)
       title: Chaucer and His England
        date: None
       words: 107241
      flesch: 66
     summary: There are more misshapen men among such beggars Than of many other men that on this mould walken. Also themselves suffer much hunger, And woe in wintertime, with waking a-nights To rise to the ruel to rock the cradle ... Both to card and to comb, to clout and to wash To rub and to reel, and rushes to peel, That ruth is to read, or in rime to show The woe of these women that woneth in cotes; And many other men that much woe suffren, Both a-hungered and athirst, to turn the fair side outward, And be abashëd for to beg, and will not be a-known What them needeth to their neighbours at noon and at even.
    keywords: 14th; age; ages; bishop; book; business; canterbury; case; century; chapter; chaucer; chivalry; church; citizens; city; clergy; clerk; come; country; course; court; dante; day; days; death; doubt; edward; end; england; english; fact; fellow; folk; france; french; froissart; god; good; gower; half; hand; head; heart; henry; home; host; house; iii; illustration; john; john chaucer; king; knight; lady; law; lay; left; life; like; little; london; lord; love; man; marriage; matter; medieval; men; middle; modern; money; parliament; people; philippa; piers; pilgrims; plowman; poet; poor; present; priest; queen; quoth; real; records; richard; right; royal; set; sir; society; son; tale; tell; things; thomas; thou; thy; time; town; way; westminster; wife; william; wine; women; words; work; world; years
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 37711
      author: Grimm, Florence M. (Florence Marie)
       title: Astronomical Lore in Chaucer
        date: None
       words: 32480
      flesch: 70
     summary: As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or hye;'[81] Once again in the _Frankeleyns Tale_ Chaucer refers to the sun's declination and the passage of the seasons: Phebus wex old, and hewed lyk latoun,[82] That in his hote declinacioun Shoon as the burned gold with stremes brighte; But now in Capricorn adoun he lighte, Wher-as he shoon ful pale, I dar wel seyn.[83] Chaucer is here contrasting the sun's appearance in summer and winter. Let the two inner circles represent the orbits of the earth and an inferior planet, Venus, around the sun, at S. (An _inferior_ planet is one whose orbit around the sun is within that of the earth.
    keywords: astrolabe; astrology; astronomy; bodies; chaucer; circle; criseyde; day; earth; east; equator; hath; heavens; hir; horizon; iii; influence; love; man; mars; men; moon; motion; night; passage; planets; poetry; point; position; reference; sonne; sphere; stars; sun; tale; time; troilus; use; venus; west; whan; world
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 43195
      author: None
       title: Chaucerian and Other Pieces Being a Supplement to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
        date: None
       words: 287521
      flesch: 97
     summary: T. S. roos; _rest_ rose. F. I-called; _rest_ called.
    keywords: 104; 105; 115; 118; 119; 122; 126; 128; 131; 145; a. h.; a. l.; a. t.; a. th; adj; adv; alas; alle; anon; art; author; away; ayenst; b. s.; badde; balade; ben; blisse; body; boeth; book; bothe; c. t.; cam; cause; certes; chapter; chaucer; chere; christ; cleped; clerkes; college; colour; come; cometh; comfort; comming; common; copies; copy; course; court; date; day; dede; deme; desyre; dict; dignitè; disese; doth; eche; edition; eek; eke; els; end; ende; english; error; erthe; esq; example; f. b.; f. ff; f. h.; f. s.; f. t.; f. th; fair; fall; false; fame; fer; final; folk; foloweth; form; forth; fortune; foul; free; fro; ful; gan; ger; god; goddes; gold; good; goodly; goodnesse; grace; great; grete; h. th; hast; hath; hede; helpe; hem; henry; herte; heven; hir; holden; holy; honour; howe; hye; i. 1; i. 10; i. 2; i. 3; i. 4; i. 5; i. 6; i. 7; i. 8; i. 9; i. e.; i. i.; i. ii; i. p.; i. pp; i. pr; iii; john; joye; kepe; king; knight; knot; knotte; know; kynde; ladies; lady; later; lawe; lay; legend; let; leve; library; like; line; list; litel; live; loke; london; long; lord; love; lovers; lydgate; lyfe; lyke; mad; maketh; man; maner; mannes; margaryte; maye; means; men; mene; mercy; moche; mokel; mote; mowe; mss; myn; myne; nat; nature; necessitè; nede; new; newe; nightingale; non; noon; note; nought; nowe; o.f; omit; oon; order; original; owne; passage; pees; people; person; piece; pitè; place; plesaunce; plowman; poem; poore; power; pray; presence; present; quod; quod i.; read; reading; rede; reference; reply; reson; rest; rev; richesse; right; rime; rose; rule; s. ff; s. p.; s. pl; s. subj; s. th; save; sayd; saye; sayn; second; seen; selfe; sense; sentence; serve; service; set; sette; sey; shal; shewe; sho; shulde; sic; sir; sith; sithen; som; sone; sore; sorowe; soule; speke; stanzas; stowe; suche; suffre; supply; syde; t. ff; t. s.; t. th; tale; text; thee; ther; therof; thilke; thing; thinges; thinketh; thorow; thou; thought; thy; thynne; til; time; title; togider; trewe; trewly; trin; troil; trouthe; true; twice; tyme; unto; venus; vertue; viii; viz; vol; way; wel; wele; whan; wherfore; whiche; whyle; wil; withouten; wol; wolde; woll; women; wonder; word; wordes; worship; wot; wote; wyse; xiii; xvii; xxii; xxiv; yeve; yvel
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 6565
      author: Hulbert, James R. (James Root)
       title: Chaucer's Official Life
        date: None
       words: 31680
      flesch: 79
     summary: See, Careswell, Richard de, Barbour, Reynold (le), Bardolf, Robert, Bealknap, Robert, Beauchamp, John, Joan, wife of, Beauchamp, Sir William de, Berkeley, Sir Edward de, Bernes, John de, Beverle, John de, Ahnicia, wife of, Blacomore, William, Bokenham, Simond de, See Bukenham, Matilda Gerounde, wife of, Bonyngton, Roger, Brembre, Nicholas, Brenchesley, William, Brokhill, Thomas, Bukenham, Simon, Bukton, Burele, William de, (Burley), Burgh, Simon, Burley, Sir John de, Burley, Simon de, Byker, Patrick, John, William, Cambridge, See Edmund, Count of, Careswell, Richard, Careu, Nicholas, the elder, the younger, Cat, John, Chambre, Griffith de la, Cheyne, Hugh, Joan, wife of, Roger, Thomas, John, William, Chippenham, Walter, Clanvowe, Sir John, (or Clanbrowe), Clarence, see Lionel, Countess of, See Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster. Clebury, Roger, Clifford, Lewis de, Clinton, John, Clopton, Walter, Clopton, William, Cobeham, John de, Conyngsby, John de, Corby, Robert de, Alice, wife of, Cornewaill, Piers de, Culpeper, Thomas, Dabrichecourt, Collard, or, Nicholas, Elizabeth, wife of, Devereux, John Edward, the Black Prince Elizabeth, Countess of Ulster Felbrigge, George Margaret, wife of Anne, wife of Ferrers, Robert de Elizabeth, wife of Ferrour, Roger, see Bonyngton, Roger Fogg, Thomas Forester, Richard Foxle, Thomas Fremingham, John Frowick, Thomas Gambon, William Girdelere, Robert Gisors, Henry Goderik, John Gosedene, John Graunson, Oto de Hannemere, David Hauberk, Laurence Hauteyn, Thomas Herlyng, John de Hermesthorpe, John Hertfordyngbury, Thomas Irlonde, Richard Isabella, wife of Ingelram de Courcy Joce, John John of Gaunt Knyveton, Rauf de Lancaster, see John of Gaunt Larderer, Robert see Maghfeld, Robert. Leche, Richard see Irlonde, Richard.
    keywords: 1378; annuity; beauchamp; cal; chaucer; edward; edward iii; esquires; family; footnote; gaunt; grant; household; idem; iii; issues; john; john de; kent; king; london; mem; men; office; pat; pounds; richard; robert; roll; sir; thomas; time; wife; william; year
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