Poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer Volume 6
Geoffrey Chaucer
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(RareBooksClub.com, May 19, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...to the obtaining of grace during this life; the poet, therefore, prays her to chastise him by afflictions in this world rather than suffer him to fall into the eternal punishment due to unrepented sin. Of al this world, and eke governeresse Of heven; and represseth his justise After thyn wille: and therfore in witnesse He hath the crowned in so ryal wise.1 T. Temple2 devoute! ther God ches his wonning, Fro which these misbeleeved deprived been, To you myn soule penitent I bringe, Receve me, for I can no ferther fleen. With thornis venemouse," hevene Quene! For which the erth accursed was ful sore, I am so wounded, as ye may wel sene, That I am lost almost, it smert so sore, V. Virgine! that art so noble of appareyle, That ledest us into the heighe toure Of Paradise, thou me wisse and counseyle, How I may have thy grace and thy succoure: Al have I ben in filth and in errour, Lady! on that countrey thou me adjourne, That cleped is thyn bench of fresche flour, Ther as that mercy ever shal sojourne. X. Xpe4 thine Sone that in this world alight Upon a crosse to suffere his passioun, 1 St. Bernard interprets the 'Woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars," Apoc. xii., to mean the Mother of Christ. Egredimini, filiae Sion, et videte regem Salomonem in diademate, quo coronavit eum mater sua. Verum hoc alias. Interim sane ingredimini magis, et videte reginam in diademate quo coronavit eam Filius suus. In capite, inquit, ejus corona stellarum duodecim.--S. Bernard--Apoc. xii. 2 St. Paul calls all Christians the Temple of God.--i Cor. iii. is. 3 By the thorns are meant sins. Thus, in medieval pictures, our Lord is represented, in His character of the Good Shepherd, as extricating a lost sheep from the bria...