Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Legend of Good Women Prologue A to Geoffrey Chaucer
Summary
Geoffrey Chaucer Legend of Good Women Prologue A has 545 lines, and 81% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in Geoffrey Chaucer. 14% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 5% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 1.61 strong matches and 3.35 weak matches.
Legend of Good Women Prologue A
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 2: 1
'This understonde I wel,' quod I, 'and I acorde wel that it is
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 7: 6
delices I not what Ioye may ben had of hir moevinge. But this [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 7: 7
wot I wel, that who-so-ever wole remembren him of hise luxures, [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 11: 92
ne ther nis no man that ne wot wel that they ne [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 21
wene that it were to doute; as who seith, but I wot wel that god [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 22
governeth this world; and I shal shortly answeren thee by what [continues next]
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Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 339
[continues previous] If that thou live, thou shalt repenten this
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Melibee's Tale: 31
... that it kepeth." Now sir, thanne shul ye committe the keping of your persone to your trewe freendes that been approved and y-knowe; and of hem shul ye axen help your persone for to kepe. For Catoun seith: "if thou hast nede of help, axe it of thy freendes; for ther nis noon so good a phisicien as thy trewe freend." And after this, thanne shul ye kepe yow fro alle straunge folk, and fro lyeres, and have alwey in suspect hir companye. For Piers Alfonce seith: "ne tak no companye by the weye of a straunge man, but-if so be that thou ...
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Parson's Tale: 10
... corrupt. And why? For, certes, alle our thoghtes been discovered as to him; ne for preyere ne for mede he shal nat been corrupt. And therfore seith Salomon: 'the wratthe of god ne wol nat spare no wight, for preyere ne for yifte'; and therfore, at the day of doom, ther nis noon hope to escape. Wherfore, as seith Seint Anselm: 'ful greet angwissh shul the sinful folk have at that tyme; ther shal the sterne and wrothe Iuge sitte above, and under him the horrible put of helle open to destroyen him that moot biknowen hise sinnes, whiche sinnes openly been shewed ...
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... swereth with his mouth, or elles taketh on him the name of Crist, to be called a Cristene man, and liveth agayns Cristes livinge and his techinge, alle they taken goddes name in ydel. Loke eek what seint Peter seith, Actuum quarto capitulo, 'Non est aliud nomen sub celo,' &c. 'Ther nis noon other name,' seith seint Peter, 'under hevene, yeven to men, in which they mowe be saved;' that is to seyn, but the name of Iesu Crist. Take kepe eek how that the precious name of Crist, as seith seint Paul ad Philipenses secundo, 'In nomine Iesu, &c.: that in the ...
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Parson's Tale: 67
... procuringe, or by fleshly preyere of hise freendes, fleshly freendes, or espirituel freendes. Fleshly, in two maneres; as by kinrede or othere freendes. Soothly, if they praye for him that is nat worthy and able, it is Symonye if he take the benefice; and if he be worthy and able, ther nis noon. That other manere is, whan a man or womman preyen for folk to avauncen hem, only for wikked fleshly affeccioun that they have un-to the persone; and that is foul Symonye. But certes, in service, for which men yeven thinges espirituels un-to hir servants, it moot been understonde that the service ...
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 7: 7
[continues previous] wot I wel, that who-so-ever wole remembren him of hise luxures,
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 21
[continues previous] wene that it were to doute; as who seith, but I wot wel that god
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 79
science ne may nat ben non other weys than as it is conceived.
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 6: 131
[continues previous] to be, it ne may ben non other weyes thanne he knoweth it to be.
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 347
Of som persone, and durste hit nat with-seye; [continues next]
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[continues previous] But as he hath herd seyd, or founde hit writen;
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 3: 77
[continues previous] with falsnesse (as who seyth, that yif I wot a thing, it ne may nat
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Wherfore, yif any thing be so to comen, that the bitydinge of hit [continues next]
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[continues previous] For, god wot, thing is never the lasse sooth,
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Through which that olde thinges been in minde. [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 11: 55
'Whan I considere,' quod I, 'manye thinges, I see non other.'
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'Is ther any-thing thanne,' quod she, 'that, in as moche as it
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 84
[continues previous] Ther as ther lyth non other assay by preve.
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Consolatione Philosophie 2 Prose 5: 5
that may be thyn in any tyme, or elles that it nis foul, yif that it
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 119
[continues previous] That from the panter and the net ben scaped,
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Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 131
[continues previous] That from the panter and the net ben scaped,
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Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 38
[continues previous] And that the floures ginnen for to springe,
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Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, [continues next]
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[continues previous] Save, certeynly, whan that the month of May
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[continues previous] To seen this flour agein the sonne sprede,
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Treatise on the Astrolabe 2: 7
To knowe the arch of the day, that some folk callen the day artificial, from the sonne arysing til hit go to reste. Set the degree of thy sonne up-on thyn est orisonte, and ley thy label on the degree of the sonne, and at the poynt of thy label in the bordure set a prikke. Turn thanne thy riet aboute til the degree of the sonne sit up-on the west orisonte, and ...
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[continues previous] For hit surmounteth pleynly alle odoures,
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Parson's Tale: 84
Now after that I have declared yow, as I can, the sevene deedly sinnes, and somme of hir braunches and hir remedies, soothly, if I coude, I wolde telle yow the ten comandements. But so heigh a doctrine I lete to divines. Nathelees, I hope to god they been touched in this tretice, everich of hem alle.
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Melibee's Tale: 46
... man seketh to have by pacience in tribulaciouns is perdurable, after that the apostle seith in his epistle: "the Ioye of god," he seith, "is perdurable," that is to seyn, everlastinge. Also troweth and bileveth stedefastly, that he nis nat wel y-norissed ne wel y-taught, that can nat have pacience or wol nat receyve pacience. For Salomon seith: that "the doctrine and the wit of a man is knowen by pacience." And in another place he seith: that "he that is pacient governeth him by greet prudence." And the same Salomon seith: "the angry and wrathful man maketh noyses, and the ... [continues next]
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[continues previous] ... been and goon. And the Ioye that a man seketh to have by pacience in tribulaciouns is perdurable, after that the apostle seith in his epistle: "the Ioye of god," he seith, "is perdurable," that is to seyn, everlastinge. Also troweth and bileveth stedefastly, that he nis nat wel y-norissed ne wel y-taught, that can nat have pacience or wol nat receyve pacience. For Salomon seith: that "the doctrine and the wit of a man is knowen by pacience." And in another place he seith: that "he that is pacient governeth him by greet prudence." And the same Salomon seith: "the angry and wrathful man maketh noyses, ...
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[continues previous] Ne I not who serveth leef, ne who the flour;
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Melibee's Tale: 56
Thanne bigan dame Prudence to maken semblant of wratthe, and seyde, 'certes, sir, sauf your grace, I love your honour and your profit as I do myn owene, and ever have doon; ne ye ne noon other syen never the contrarie. And yit, if I hadde seyd that ye sholde han purchaced the pees and the reconsiliacioun, I ne hadde nat muchel mistaken me, ne seyd amis. For the wyse man seith: "the dissensioun biginneth by another man, and the reconsiling bi-ginneth by thy-self." And the ... [continues next]
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[continues previous] Thanne bigan dame Prudence to maken semblant of wratthe, and seyde, 'certes, sir, sauf your grace, I love your honour and your profit as I do myn owene, and ever have doon; ne ye ne noon other syen never the contrarie. And yit, if I hadde seyd that ye sholde han purchaced the pees and the reconsiliacioun, I ne hadde nat muchel mistaken me, ne seyd amis. For the wyse man seith: "the dissensioun biginneth by another man, and the reconsiling bi-ginneth by thy-self." And the prophete seith: "flee shrewednesse and do goodnesse; ...
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[continues previous] Ne I not who serveth leef, ne who the flour;
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Treatise on the Astrolabe Prologue: 1
... of the Astrolabie, con me the more thank; and preye god save the king, that is lord of this langage, and alle that him feyth bereth and obeyeth, everech in his degree, the more and the lasse. But considere wel, that I ne usurpe nat to have founde this werk of my labour or of myn engin. I nam but a lewd compilatour of the labour of olde Astrologiens, and have hit translated in myn English only for thy doctrine; and with this swerd shal I sleen envye. [continues next]
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Treatise on the Astrolabe Prologue: 1
[continues previous] ... commune tretis of the Astrolabie, con me the more thank; and preye god save the king, that is lord of this langage, and alle that him feyth bereth and obeyeth, everech in his degree, the more and the lasse. But considere wel, that I ne usurpe nat to have founde this werk of my labour or of myn engin. I nam but a lewd compilatour of the labour of olde Astrologiens, and have hit translated in myn English only for thy doctrine; and with this swerd shal I sleen envye.
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Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 197
[continues previous] Whan that the sonne out of the south gan weste,
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[continues previous] But wherfor that I spak, to give credence
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 28
[continues previous] Ther-as ther is non other assay by preve.
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[continues previous] And, as for me, though that my wit be lyte,
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[continues previous] And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte,
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Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 197
Whan that the sonne out of the south gan weste, [continues next]
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Treatise on the Astrolabe 2: 3
... the lyne of midday, 18 degres of heighte taken by my rewle on the bak-syde. Tho sette I the centre of this Alhabor up-on 18 degrees among myn almikanteras, up-on the west syde; by-cause that she was founden on the west syde. Tho leide I my label over the degree of the sonne that was descended under the weste orisonte, and rikened alle the lettres capitals fro the lyne of midday un-to the point of my label in the bordure; and fond that it was passed 8 of the clokke the space of 2 degrees. Tho loked I doun up-on myn est orisonte, and fond ther 23 degrees of ...
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[continues previous] To seen this flour that I so love and drede.
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... harm, and blesse him that seith to thee harm." And in manye othere places he amonesteth pees and accord. But now wol I speke to yow of the conseil which that was yeven to yow by the men of lawe and the wyse folk, that seyden alle by oon accord as ye han herd bifore; that, over alle thynges, ye sholde doon your diligence to kepen your persone and to warnestore your hous. And seyden also, that in this caas ye oghten for to werken ful avysely and with greet deliberacioun. And sir, as to the firste point, that toucheth to the keping of your persone; ...
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Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 123
[continues previous] For hit surmounteth pleynly alle odoures,
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Corouned with whyte, and clothed al in grene, [continues next]
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Corouned with whyte, and clothed al in grene, [continues next]
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[continues previous] Corouned with whyte, and clothed al in grene,
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[continues previous] Now hath the atempre sonne al that releved
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[continues previous] Corouned with whyte, and clothed al in grene,
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[continues previous] And that the floures ginne for to springe,
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[continues previous] In worshipinge and preisinge of hir make.
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[continues previous] To love, and diden hir other observaunces
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[continues previous] And aungellyke his winges saugh I sprede.
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[continues previous] Corouned with whyte, and clothed al in grene,
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[continues previous] Swich were the floures of hir coroun whyte.
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[continues previous] So were the florouns of hir coroun whyte;
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[continues previous] For which the whyte coroun, above the grene,
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[continues previous] In silke, enbrouded ful of grene greves,
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Therwith me thoughte his face shoon so brighte [continues next]
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That had a flees of gold, that shoon so brighte, [continues next]
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[continues previous] That had a flees of gold, that shoon so brighte,
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 80
[continues previous] mighte it availen at the laste ayeins him, that we han graunted to
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laste? For yif it so be that men dyen in al, that is to seyn, body
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Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 228
First sat the god of love, and than this quene [continues next]
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Corouned with whyte, and clothed al in grene, [continues next]
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First sat the god of love, and sith his quene [continues next]
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[continues previous] First sat the god of love, and than this quene
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That in this world, thogh that men wolde seke, [continues next]
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[continues previous] First sat the god of love, and sith his quene
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[continues previous] Corouned with whyte, and clothed al in grene,
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Metre 5: 2
som of hem han hir bodies straught and crepen in the dust, and [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Metre 5: 3
[continues previous] drawen after hem a tras or a foruh y-continued; that is to seyn, as
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Melibee's Tale: 24
... proverbe seith: "he that to muche embraceth, distreyneth litel." And Catoun seith: "assay to do swich thing as thou hast power to doon, lest that the charge oppresse thee so sore, that thee bihoveth to weyve thing that thou hast bigonne." And if so be that thou be in doute, whether thou mayst parfourne a thing or noon, chese rather to suffre than biginne. And Piers Alphonce seith: "if thou hast might to doon a thing of which thou most repente thee, it is bettre 'nay' than 'ye';" this is to seyn, that thee is bettre holde thy tonge stille, than for to speke. Thanne may ye understonde ...
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Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 295
[continues previous] And kneled doun, as it were for the nones,
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[continues previous] And songen with o vois, 'Hele and honour
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[continues previous] Lavyne; and thou, Lucresse of Rome toun,
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[continues previous] And thou, Tisbe, that hast of love swich peyne;
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[continues previous] Maketh of your trouthe neyther boost ne soun;
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Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 119
[continues previous] That was with floures swote enbrouded al,
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[continues previous] Hir swote breth, and made hem for to sprede,
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Corouned with whyte, and clothed al in grene, [continues next]
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Therwith this quene wex reed for shame a lyte, [continues next]
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Corouned with whyte, and clothed al in grene, [continues next]
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Therwith this quene wex reed for shame a lyte, [continues next]
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[continues previous] In stede of rubies, set among the whyte.'
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[continues previous] In stede of rubies, set among the whyte.'
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[continues previous] First sat the god of love, and sith his quene