The Canterbury Tales: the Man of Law's Tale Quotes

O hateful harm, condicion of poverte! With thurst, with coold, with hunger so confounded! To asken help thee shameth in thyn herte, If thou noon aske, so soore artow so wounded That verray nede unw...

This was the commune voys of every man:"Oure Emperour of Rome, God hym see,A doghter hath that, syn the world bigan,To rekene as wel hir goodnesse as beautee,Nas nevere swich another as is shee." (...

Paraventure in thilke large book,Which that men clepe the hevene, ywriten wasWith sterres, whan that he his birthe took,That he for love sholde han his deeth, allas! (190-193)

They trowe that "no Cristene prince wolde faynWedden his child under oure lawes sweteThat us were taught by Mahoun oure prophete." (222-224)

For whan they cam from any strange place,He wolde, of his benigne curteisye,Make hem good chiere, and bisily espyeTidygnes of sondry regnes, for to leereThe wondres that they myghte seen or heere....

"We shul first feyne us cristendom to take,—Coold water shal nat greve us but a lite –And I shal swich a feeste and revel make,That, as I trowe, I shal the Sowdan quite." (351-354)

"Oure Emperour of Rome, God hym see,A doghter hat that, syn the world bigan,To rekene as wel hir goodnesse as beautee,Nas nevere swich another as is shee." (156-159)

"We shul first feyne us cristendom to take,—Coold water shal nat greve us but a lite—And I shal swich a feeste and revel make,That, as I trowe, I shal the Sowdan quite." (351-354)