The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay Upon His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary, Volume 5

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W. Pickering and R. and S. Prowett, 1822

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Page 263 - Fr. A copy in miniature of the picture of Christ, which is supposed to have been miraculously imprinted upon a handkerchief preserved in the church of St. Peter at Rome.
Page 145 - Maked I not a Lovedaye betwene God and mankynde, and chese a mayde to be nompere, to put the quarell at ende ?
Page 148 - Thus ben they both in quiete and in reste. For o thing, sires, sauttv dare I seie, That frendes everich other must obeie, If they wol longe holden compagnie. Love wol not be constreined by maistrie. Whan maistrie cometh, the God of love anon Beteth his winges, and farewel, he is gon.
Page 12 - The monke put in the mannes hode an ape, And in his wife's eke. 13370. The monk made a fool of the man, and of his wife too.— Win of ape. 16993. See the note.
Page 87 - If I may gripe a riche man, I shall so pulle him, if I can, That he shall in a fewe stoundes Lese all his markes and his poundes. — Our maidens shall eke piucke him so, That him shall neden f ethers mo.
Page 55 - As to the etymology of the adj. from which this word has been formed, I think the opinion of Twysden and Somner [Gloss, ad X Script, v. Fridwite] much the most probable, who derive it from the BARB. LAT. Culum vertere ; To turn tail, or run away. See Du Cange, in v. CULVERTA, and CULVERTAGIUM, who rejects the opinion above mentioned, but without suggesting any thing so plausible.
Page 113 - ... A kind of loam, found in some parts of Essex. HAZENEY. To foretell evil. Dorset. HAZLE. (1) The first process in drying washed linen. East. (2) Stiff, as clay, &c. Essex. (3) To beat, or thrash. Craven. HAZON. To scold. Wilts. HA3ER. More noble. Gawayne. HA3T. Hath. MS. Cott. Psalm. Antiq. HE. (1) Is often prefixed, in all its cases, to proper names emphatically, according to Saxon usage. Tyrwhitt, p. 113. Country people reverse this practice, and say. " Mr. Brown he said,
Page 226 - Egiste to his chambre faste him spedde, And privily he let his doghter calle. Whan that the hous was voided of hem alle, 2625 He loked on his doghter with glad chere, And to her spak, as ye shul after here.
Page 205 - E sospir che gli avea a gran dovicia" — and one can hardly conceive that it could come from any hand but that of the author. I can make no sense of reheting ; but at the same time I must allow that it is not likely to have been inserted by way of a gloss.
Page 132 - IIi. p. 1317. LAID with gold lace. — LAID ON with red silke and gold lace. — LAID ABOUT with silver lace. See COUCHED. LAINE, inf. v. SAX. To lay. R. 184. LAINERS, n. pi. FR. Straps, or thongs. 2506. LAKE, n. 13787. It is difficult to say what sort of cloth is meant. Laecken, BELG. signifies both linen and woollen cloth. Kilian. LAKKE, n. SAX. A fault, a disgraceful action. 10073. — Want. 10145. LAKKE, v. To find fault; to blame. R. 284. 4804. LAMBEN, n. pi. SAX. Lambs. R. 7063. LANGURE, v....

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