. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . The Kuns Priest, The Second The Manciple. The Parson. TIIK CAXTKRItUUV ni/iRIMS. (By jwi-Mi(AA(OH if the liijht lion, tin: Eurl of jLlksmere.) 298 THE BLACK DEATH. AND AFTEIUVAEDS. [1348 The And the verse is varied, according to the subject-matter. Metre. r^j^^ trasjic stories, such as the ilonks Tale, are written in anoctave stanza of French origin, with rinae order ah ah he be. Thepathetic ones, suc
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . The Kuns Priest, The Second The Manciple. The Parson. TIIK CAXTKRItUUV ni/iRIMS. (By jwi-Mi(AA(OH if the liijht lion, tin: Eurl of jLlksmere.) 298 THE BLACK DEATH. AND AFTEIUVAEDS. [1348 The And the verse is varied, according to the subject-matter. Metre. r^j^^ trasjic stories, such as the ilonks Tale, are written in anoctave stanza of French origin, with rinae order ah ah he be. Thepathetic ones, such as the Clerks Tale, in the famous Chaucerstanza, or rhyme royal, which is, without doubt, of Proven<;alorigin (p. 2S2). In the Rime of Sir Thojjas rime couee (tail rime) is adopted ; and lastly, in the Prologue, nearly all theinterludes and the majority uf the tales (in all the best ones)the heroic couplet is the measure. The line is of the samestructure as that in the octave stanza and the rime royale,and the idea of combining such lines into riTued couplets wasprobably suggested by the Southern cjcle of legends of saints,which were in Middle English Alexandrines, rimed in couplets((?/. p. 123). It will be r
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