Famous Thewes Poems by Famous Poets
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...the men in that mote maden much joye
To apere in his presense prestly that tyme,
That alle prys and prowes and pured thewes
Apendes to hys persoun, and praysed is euer;
Byfore alle men vpon molde his mensk is the most.
Vch segge ful softly sayde to his fere:
"Now schal we semlych se sleyghtez of thewez
And the teccheles termes of talkyng noble,
Wich spede is in speche vnspurd may we lerne,
Syn we haf fonged that fyne fader of nurture.
God hatz geuen vus his grace g...Read more of this...
by
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...hte not for that thing him despyse,
Sith it is so, he meneth in good wyse.
'And eek I knowe, of longe tyme agoon,
His thewes goode, and that he is not nyce.
Ne avauntour, seyth men, certein, he is noon;
To wys is he to do so gret a vyce;
Ne als I nel him never so cheryce,
That he may make avaunt, by Iuste cause;
He shal me never binde in swiche a clause.
'Now set a cas, the hardest is, y-wis,
Men mighten deme that he loveth me;
What dishonour were it un-to me, this?
May ...Read more of this...
by
Chaucer, Geoffrey
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