"In the Nonne's Prestes' Tale we see the cottage and manner of life of a poor widow."

The Life of St. Cecilia seems to have been first a single poem, afterwards made one of his Canterbury Tales which is told by the second Nonne: and so perhaps was that of the Wife of Bath, which he advises John of Gaunt to read, and was afterwards inserted in his Canterbury Tales.

It is certain the Tale of the Nonnes Priest was written after the Insurrection of Jack Straw and Wat Tyler.

Nonne supra omnem furorem, supra omnem insanian reddunt insanissimos?

Nonne ridiculum lugere quod colas, vel colere quod lugeas?

Nonne Romani sine Deo vestro regnant et fruuntur orbe toto, et vos et Deos vestros captivos tenent, &c. Minutius Octaviano. 6641.

nonne solis astrorumque specula ubique conspiciam?

nonne dulcissimas veritates potero speculari ubique sub celo, ni prius inglorium, imo ignominiosum populo, Florentineque civitati am reddam?

Et concludebat, Nonne miseria dignus est qui pro tanta pugnat miseria?" "The Papacy, if it be well borne, is the chief of honors, of burdens, of servitudes, and of labors; but if ill, it is the chief of perils for the soul, the chief of evils, of miseries, and of shames.

If Mr. Arnold must change the measure, Chaucer's "Nonnes Preestes Tale" would have been a safer guide to follow.

CHAN'TICLEER (3 syl.), the cock, in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox (1498), and also in "The Nonne Preste's Tale," told in The Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer (1388).

Ther was also a nonne, a prioresse, That of hire smiling was full simp' and coy, Hire greatest othe was but by Seint Eloy! Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1388).

The legends were chosen partly from the hagiology of the Church Catholic, as the lives of Margaret, Christopher, and Michael; partly from the calendar of the English Church, as the lives of St. Thomas of Canterbury, and of the Anglo-Saxons, Dunstan, Swithinwho is mentioned by Shakspereand Kenelm, whose life is quoted by Chaucer in the Nonne Preste's Tale.

The Nonne Preste's Tale, likewise, which Dryden modernized with admirable humor, was of the class of fabliaux, and was suggested by a little poem in forty lines,

There was also a nonne, a prioresse, That of hire smiling was ful simple and coy; Hire gretest othe n'as but by Seint Eloy; And she was clepëd madame Eglentine.

Dacchantin und Nonne.

SEE Malkus, Alicia Sims. KAFKA, IRENE, tr. Bacchantin und Nonne.

Bacchantin und Nonne.

Dacchantin und Nonne.

SEE Malkus, Alicia Sims. KAFKA, IRENE, tr. Bacchantin und Nonne.

Bacchantin und Nonne.

The abbesse, and the nonnes all, Fair him grette in the guest-hall; And damsel Frain, so fair of mouth, Grette him fair, as she well couth.

Nonne vides, croceos ut Tmolus odores, India mittit ebur, molles sua thura Sabæi?