 The elf-queen, with hir joly companye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede; This was the olde opinion, as I rede. I speke of manye hundred yeres ago; But now can no man see none elves mo.  Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx - Side 69af Sir John Rhys - 1901 - 718 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 sider
...difference between literary English and the speech of the common people : Jn th, olde ^^ of {he Ryng Arthour, Of which that Britons speken greet honour, Al was this land fulfild of fayerye. The elf-queene with hir joly companye Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede ; This was the olde opinion,... | |
 | John Erskine - 1928 - 328 sider
...They are fair samples of the average difficulty of Chaucer's verse. "In the olde dayes of the King Arthour, Of which that Britons speken greet honour, Al was this land fulfild of fayerye. The elf queene with hir joly companye Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede; This was the olde opinion... | |
 | English Association - 1928 - 162 sider
...sufficiently indicated by the opening lines of the Wife of Bath's Tale : In tholde dayes of the king Arthour, Of which that Britons speken greet honour, Al was this land fulfild of fayerye. The elf queen, with hir joly companye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede ; and by the well-known lines... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1996 - 324 sider
...the Summoner THE Wife of Bath began her tale by saying, In th'olde dayes of the Kyng Arthour, (857) Of which that Britons speken greet honour, Al was this land fulfild of fayerye. The elf-queene, with hir joly compaignye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede. There is more to this... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1932 - 436 sider
...olde dayes of the king1 Arthonr, Of which that Britons speken greet honour, Al wan this land fulliUl of fayerye; The elf-queen, with hir joly companye Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede. CHAPTER XIII METRICAL ROMANCES, 1200—1500 I Men speJte of romancet of pryi, Of Horn child and of... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sider
...Sometimes the particulars are less happy. Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale opens In th'olde dayes of the Kyng Arthour, Of which that Britons speken greet honour, Al was this land fulfild of feyerye. The elf-queene. with hir joly compaignye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede. This becomes... | |
 | William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - 1916 - 460 sider
...th'olde dayes of the king Arthour, Of which that Britons spoken greet honour, Al was this land f ulfild of fayerye. The elf-queen, with hir joly companye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede; This was the olde opinion, as I rede. I speke of inanye hundred yeres ago; But now can no man see none... | |
 | Richard James Moll - 2003 - 394 sider
...of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale is a self-consciously ahistorical one: In th'olde dayes of the Kyng Arthour, Of which that Britons speken greet honour, Al was this land fulfild of fayerye. The elf-queene, with hir joly compaignye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede.6 This fanciful opening... | |
 | Piero Boitani, Jill Mann - 2003 - 338 sider
...end of the poem's first paragraph this expectation is already shaken: In th'olde dayes of the Kyng Arthour, Of which that Britons speken greet honour, Al was this land fulfild of fayerye. The elf-queene, with hir joly compaignye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene mede. This was the olde opinion,... | |
 | D. Vance Smith - 2003 - 348 sider
...gentil Britouns in hire dayes . . ."; and most pointedly the Wife of Bath: "In th'olde dayes of the Kyng Arthour, / Of which that Britons speken greet honour, / Al was this land fulfild of fayerye" (Wife of Bath's Tale, 857-59). The Wife's Tale begins by linking explicitly the nostalgic and the plentiful,... | |
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