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i, p. 11.
We know that the great poet was in his youth a page in one of the royal households, then a soldier who became a prisoner of war in France, and later an esquire of the king; that he was sent abroad on various important royal commissions, to Flanders, to France, and twice to Italy.
From 1374 until his death he held, with some 161 11 162 HISTORIC ENGLISH interruptions, a number of civil offices which show him to have been a competent and trustworthy man of affairs. In 1386 he was elected... a member of Parliament from Kent. In 1374 he is described as being "in a whirl of prosperity." Later in life, by the lapse of offices and the mutations of politics, he saw periods of straitened circumstances so common in the lives of men of letters, during one of which he wrote the well-known "Compleynte to His Purse" : The Compleynte of Chaucer to His Purse "To yow my purse and to noon other wighte Complayne I, for ye be my lady dere !
I am so sory now that ye been lyghte, For certes yf ye make me hevy chere, Me were as leef be layde upon my bere.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
i, p. 11.
We know that the great poet was in his youth a page in one of the royal households, then a soldier who became a prisoner of war in France, and later an esquire of the king; that he was sent abroad on various important royal commissions, to Flanders, to France, and twice to Italy.
From 1374 until his death he held, with some 161 11 162 HISTORIC ENGLISH interruptions, a number of civil offices which show him to have been a competent and trustworthy man of affairs. In 1386 he was elected... a member of Parliament from Kent. In 1374 he is described as being "in a whirl of prosperity." Later in life, by the lapse of offices and the mutations of politics, he saw periods of straitened circumstances so common in the lives of men of letters, during one of which he wrote the well-known "Compleynte to His Purse" : The Compleynte of Chaucer to His Purse "To yow my purse and to noon other wighte Complayne I, for ye be my lady dere !
I am so sory now that ye been lyghte, For certes yf ye make me hevy chere, Me were as leef be layde upon my bere.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Fernald, James Champlin, 1838-1918 to read onlineMoreLess
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