Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Merciles Beautè to Geoffrey Chaucer

Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Merciles Beautè to Geoffrey Chaucer

Summary

Geoffrey Chaucer Merciles Beautè has 39 lines, and 74% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in Geoffrey Chaucer. 21% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 5% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 2.28 strong matches and 2.26 weak matches.

Merciles Beautè

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15+

Merciles Beautè: 1

Your yën two wol slee me sodenly,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 6

Your yën two wol slee me sodenly, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 11

Your yën two wol slee me sodenly, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 2

I may the beautè of hem not sustene,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 7

[continues previous] I may the beautè of hem not sustene.
14

Merciles Beautè: 8

Upon my trouthe I sey yow feithfully,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 12

[continues previous] I may the beautè of hem not sustene, [continues next]
13

Merciles Beautè: 14

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 3

So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.
11

Compleint to His Lady: 63

Is whetted now ageynes me to kene. [continues next]
11

Compleint to His Lady: 64

My dere herte, and best beloved fo, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 13

[continues previous] So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 14

[continues previous] So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 4

And but your word wol helen hastily
11

Compleint to His Lady: 64

[continues previous] My dere herte, and best beloved fo,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 14

[continues previous] So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced
15+

Merciles Beautè: 6

Your yën two wol slee me sodenly,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 1

Your yën two wol slee me sodenly, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 11

Your yën two wol slee me sodenly, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 7

I may the beautè of hem not sustene.
11

Compleynt unto Pitè: 111

But natheles, my trouthe I shal sustene [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 2

[continues previous] I may the beautè of hem not sustene, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 12

[continues previous] I may the beautè of hem not sustene, [continues next]
12

Troilus and Criseyde 5: 1002

I sey not therfore that I wol yow love, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 8

Upon my trouthe I sey yow feithfully,
11

Legend of Ariadne: 234

Upon my trouthe I swere, and yow assure,
11

Compleynt unto Pitè: 111

[continues previous] But natheles, my trouthe I shal sustene [continues next]
11

Compleynt unto Pitè: 112

[continues previous] Unto my deth, and that shal wel be sene. [continues next]
14

Merciles Beautè: 2

[continues previous] I may the beautè of hem not sustene,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 12

[continues previous] I may the beautè of hem not sustene,
11

Troilus and Criseyde 3: 636

For, by my trouthe, I sey it nought a-game,
12

Troilus and Criseyde 5: 1001

[continues previous] It sholde be your-selven, by my trouthe!
12

Troilus and Criseyde 5: 1002

[continues previous] I sey not therfore that I wol yow love,
11

Merciles Beautè: 9

That ye ben of my lyf and deeth the quene;
10

Wife of Bath's Tale: 391

That is bitwixe the est and eke the west, [continues next]
10

Wife of Bath's Tale: 392

Doth with my lyf and deeth right as yow lest. [continues next]
10

Compleint to His Empty Purse: 12

Ye be my lyf, ye be myn hertes stere,
10

Compleint to His Empty Purse: 13

Quene of comfort and of good companye:
11

Compleynt unto Pitè: 112

[continues previous] Unto my deth, and that shal wel be sene.
11

Merciles Beautè: 10

For with my deeth the trouthe shal be sene.
10

Wife of Bath's Tale: 392

[continues previous] Doth with my lyf and deeth right as yow lest.
11

Legend of Cleopatra: 115

I wol fulfille, and that shal wel be sene; [continues next]
10

Troilus and Criseyde 3: 871

'Now by my thrift,' quod he, 'that shal be sene;
10

Troilus and Criseyde 3: 872

For, sin ye make this ensample of me,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 11

Your yën two wol slee me sodenly,
11

Legend of Cleopatra: 115

[continues previous] I wol fulfille, and that shal wel be sene;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 1

Your yën two wol slee me sodenly, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 6

Your yën two wol slee me sodenly, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 12

I may the beautè of hem not sustene,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 2

[continues previous] I may the beautè of hem not sustene, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 7

[continues previous] I may the beautè of hem not sustene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 8

Upon my trouthe I sey yow feithfully,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 13

So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 3

[continues previous] So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 19

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 24

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
15+

Womanly Noblesse: 1

So hath my herte caught in rémembraunce [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 14

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced
13

Merciles Beautè: 2

[continues previous] I may the beautè of hem not sustene,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 3

[continues previous] So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 4

[continues previous] And but your word wol helen hastily
15+

Merciles Beautè: 19

[continues previous] So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 24

[continues previous] So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
15+

Womanly Noblesse: 1

[continues previous] So hath my herte caught in rémembraunce
15+

Womanly Noblesse: 2

[continues previous] Your beautè hool, and stedfast governaunce,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 15

Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 20

[continues previous] Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 21

Allas! that nature hath in yow compassed
15+

Merciles Beautè: 25

[continues previous] Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 16

For Daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 26

[continues previous] For Daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.
12

Merciles Beautè: 17

Giltles my deeth thus han ye me purchaced;
10

Summoner's Tale: 418

Ye sey me thus, how that I am your brother?' [continues next]
12

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 prophete seith: "flee shrewednesse and do goodnesse; seke pees and folwe it, as muchel as in ... [continues next]
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 1282

'God helpe me so,' quod he, 'ye sey me sooth. [continues next]
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 1283

Ye felen wel your-self that I not lye; [continues next]
12

Merciles Beautè: 18

I sey yow sooth, me nedeth not to feyne;
12

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 450

Ye be to blame, by god, I sey yow sooth.'
10

Summoner's Tale: 418

[continues previous] Ye sey me thus, how that I am your brother?'
12

Melibee's Tale: 56

[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; seke pees ...
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 1282

[continues previous] 'God helpe me so,' quod he, 'ye sey me sooth.
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 1283

[continues previous] Ye felen wel your-self that I not lye;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 19

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced
15+

Merciles Beautè: 13

So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 14

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 24

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
13

Womanly Noblesse: 1

So hath my herte caught in rémembraunce
13

Womanly Noblesse: 2

Your beautè hool, and stedfast governaunce,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 20

Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 15

[continues previous] Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 25

[continues previous] Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 21

Allas! that nature hath in yow compassed
15+

Merciles Beautè: 15

[continues previous] Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 25

[continues previous] Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne;
10

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 546

It semeth nat that love dooth yow longe, [continues next]
10

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 547

That slepen so that no man may yow wake. [continues next]
10

Merciles Beautè: 22

So greet beautè, that no man may atteyne
10

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 547

[continues previous] That slepen so that no man may yow wake.
12

Merciles Beautè: 23

To mercy, though he sterve for the peyne.
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 1530

So that wel neigh I sterve for the peyne.' [continues next]
11

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 1531

Quod Pandarus, 'thou shalt the bettre pleyne, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 24

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced
15+

Merciles Beautè: 13

So woundeth hit through-out my herte kene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 14

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 19

So hath your beautè fro your herte chaced [continues next]
13

Womanly Noblesse: 1

So hath my herte caught in rémembraunce
13

Womanly Noblesse: 2

Your beautè hool, and stedfast governaunce,
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 1530

[continues previous] So that wel neigh I sterve for the peyne.'
15+

Merciles Beautè: 25

Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 15

[continues previous] Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 20

[continues previous] Pitee, that me ne availeth not to pleyne.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 21

Allas! that nature hath in yow compassed
15+

Merciles Beautè: 26

For Daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 16

[continues previous] For Daunger halt your mercy in his cheyne.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 27

Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 31

I do no fors, I speke right as I mene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 32

Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 33

I never thenk to ben in his prison lene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 37

Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 38

I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 28

I never thenk to ben in his prison lene;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 31

[continues previous] I do no fors, I speke right as I mene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 32

[continues previous] Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 33

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 37

[continues previous] Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 38

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 39

[continues previous] Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 29

Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 33

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 38

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 39

[continues previous] Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 771

That thought was this, 'allas! sin I am free,
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 772

Sholde I now love, and putte in Iupartye
14

Troilus and Criseyde 5: 363

God helpe me so, I counte hem not a bene,
11

Merciles Beautè: 30

He may answere, and seye this or that;
11

Parson's Tale: 59

... any good werk, anon he shal forleten it and stinten; as doon they that han any wight to governe, and ne taken of him na-more kepe, anon as they finden any contrarie or any anoy. Thise been the newe shepherdes, that leten hir sheep witingly go renne to the wolf that is in the breres, or do no fors of hir owene governaunce. Of this comth poverte and destruccioun, bothe of spirituel and temporel thinges. Thanne comth a manere coldnesse, that freseth al the herte of man. Thanne comth undevocioun, thurgh which a man is so blent, as seith Seint Bernard, and hath swiche langour in ... [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 31

I do no fors, I speke right as I mene.
10

Wife of Bath's Tale: 378

I do no fors the whether of the two;
10

Friar's Tale: 214

I do no fors of your divinitee.
12

Canon's Yeoman's Tale: 465

And spending-silver hadde he right y-now.
12

Canon's Yeoman's Tale: 466

Therof no fors; I wol precede as now,
11

Parson's Tale: 59

[continues previous] ... forleten it and stinten; as doon they that han any wight to governe, and ne taken of him na-more kepe, anon as they finden any contrarie or any anoy. Thise been the newe shepherdes, that leten hir sheep witingly go renne to the wolf that is in the breres, or do no fors of hir owene governaunce. Of this comth poverte and destruccioun, bothe of spirituel and temporel thinges. Thanne comth a manere coldnesse, that freseth al the herte of man. Thanne comth undevocioun, thurgh which a man is so blent, as seith Seint Bernard, and hath swiche langour in soule, that he ...
11

Book of the Duchesse: 522

'A! goode sir, no fors,' quod I,
11

Book of the Duchesse: 523

I am right sory if I have ought
10

Book of the Duchesse: 542

'I do no fors therof,' quod he,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 27

Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 28

I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 36

For ever-mo; [ther] is non other mene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 37

Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 38

I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 32

Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 27

[continues previous] Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 28

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 37

[continues previous] Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 38

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 33

I never thenk to ben in his prison lene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 27

[continues previous] Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 28

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 29

[continues previous] Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 37

[continues previous] Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 38

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 39

[continues previous] Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.
13

Merciles Beautè: 35

And he is strike out of my bokes clene
13

Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 27

Wel oghte us than on olde bokes leve, [continues next]
12

Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 28

These bokes, ther we han non other preve. [continues next]
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 580

And sin ye woot that myn entente is clene, [continues next]
10

Troilus and Criseyde 5: 1687

Is now for-doon, and that is al my routhe. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 36

For ever-mo; [ther] is non other mene.
13

Knight's Tale: 324

Ech man for him-self, ther is non other. [continues next]
10

Knight's Tale: 325

Love if thee list; for I love and ay shal; [continues next]
12

Man of Law's Tale: 168

For wel she seeth ther is non other ende.
11

Man of Law's Tale: 169

Allas! what wonder is it though she wepte,
11

Franklin's Tale: 271

'Is ther non other grace in yow,' quod he. [continues next]
10

Second Nun's Tale: 322

If this were livinge only and non other.
10

Second Nun's Tale: 323

But ther is better lyf in other place,
11

Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 11: 55

'Whan I considere,' quod I, 'manye thinges, I see non other.' [continues next]
11

Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 11: 56

'Is ther any-thing thanne,' quod she, 'that, in as moche as it [continues next]
13

Legend of Good Women Prologue A: 28

[continues previous] Ther-as ther is non other assay by preve.
12

Legend of Good Women Prologue B: 28

[continues previous] These bokes, ther we han non other preve.
13

Anelida and Arcite: 286

Ther ben non other mene weyes newe;
13

Anelida and Arcite: 287

For god so wisly on my soule rewe,
15+

Merciles Beautè: 31

I do no fors, I speke right as I mene. [continues next]
11

Romaunt of the Rose: 4844

Finde non other mene wey. [continues next]
11

Romaunt of the Rose: 4845

For I wot wel, in sothfastnesse, [continues next]
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 581

[continues previous] Tak hede ther-of, for I non yvel mene.
12

Troilus and Criseyde 3: 1164

What harm was that, sin I non yvel mene? [continues next]
12

Troilus and Criseyde 3: 1165

For, by that god that boughte us bothe two, [continues next]
10

Troilus and Criseyde 5: 1687

[continues previous] Is now for-doon, and that is al my routhe.
10

Troilus and Criseyde 5: 1688

[continues previous] Was ther non other broche yow liste lete
15+

Merciles Beautè: 37

Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat,
13

Knight's Tale: 325

[continues previous] Love if thee list; for I love and ay shal;
11

Franklin's Tale: 270

[continues previous] Have heer my trouthe in al that ever I can.'
11

Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 11: 55

[continues previous] 'Whan I considere,' quod I, 'manye thinges, I see non other.'
15+

Merciles Beautè: 27

Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 28

I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 31

[continues previous] I do no fors, I speke right as I mene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 32

[continues previous] Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 33

I never thenk to ben in his prison lene. [continues next]
11

Romaunt of the Rose: 4845

[continues previous] For I wot wel, in sothfastnesse,
12

Troilus and Criseyde 3: 1164

[continues previous] What harm was that, sin I non yvel mene?
15+

Merciles Beautè: 38

I never thenk to ben in his prison lene;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 27

[continues previous] Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 28

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 29

[continues previous] Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 31

[continues previous] I do no fors, I speke right as I mene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 32

[continues previous] Sin I fro Love escaped am so fat, [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 33

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene. [continues next]
15+

Merciles Beautè: 39

Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 28

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene;
15+

Merciles Beautè: 29

[continues previous] Sin I am free, I counte him not a bene.
15+

Merciles Beautè: 33

[continues previous] I never thenk to ben in his prison lene.
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 771

That thought was this, 'allas! sin I am free,
12

Troilus and Criseyde 2: 772

Sholde I now love, and putte in Iupartye
14

Troilus and Criseyde 5: 363

God helpe me so, I counte hem not a bene,