2368 what eileth yow what is the matter with you
2370 holpe helped
2372 heele heal
2373 bet better
2376 algate nevertheless
2377 yeve grant
2378 swived fucked
2379 hals neck
2383 glimsinge blurred vision
2387 maze are confused
2388 for because
2391 lief dear missaid spoken out of turn
2392 ivele apaid sorry
2393 wende have seyn thought I saw
2400 adawed awakened
2402 ise see
2404 yseyn seen
2405 ysatled settled
2406 bigile deceive
2410 misconceiveth perceives wrongly misdemeth misjudges
2411 leep leapt
2413 clippeth hugs
2421 whiche sleightes what tricks subtilitees stratagems
2423 sely innocent
2424 And they will always deviate from the truth
2425 preveth weel is very evident
2428 labbing blabbing
2430 no fors no matter
2431 wite ye do you know in conseil in confidence
2432 Me reweth soore I bitterly regret teid tied, bound
2433 and I sholde if I were to
2434 I were to nice I would be too foolish
2436 of somme by some meinee company
2438 konnen outen swich chaffare can display goods of this sort
2439 therto for it
2440 my tale is do I have said my piece
3 Konnen theron know about it
5 hertly sincere
6 lust wish
10 werreyed made war on
11 doghty brave
13 Which who
16 longeth to befits
17 As of as regards secte sect, faith
18 lay law
19 therto also hardy brave
20 pietous merciful iliche unvaryingly
21 Sooth truthful
22 In temperament as stable as the centre of any circle
23 in armes desirous keen in battle
24 bachiler young knight
26 kepte … royal estat maintained regal splendour
30 highte was called
31 cleped called
35 lith lies konning ability
38 moste been would have to be rethor rhetorician
39 colours stylistic embellishments (see n. to Cl 16–18) longing for belonging to
40 discriven describe
43 born worn
45–6 leet … Doon crien had proclaimed nativitee birthday
47 The laste Idus of March March 15
48 jolif gay cleer bright
49 ny near exaltacioun position of greatest influence (n.)
50 face … mansioun see n.
51 colerik choleric (n.)
52 lusty pleasant benigne mild
53 again in shene bright
54 grene greenery
55 loude loudly
56 geten hem got themselves 59sit (= sitteth) sits deis dais
61 halt (= holdeth) holds solempne splendid
62 liche like
65 devise recount
67 straunge sewes exotic concoctions
68 heronsewes young herons
70 ful deintee holde considered very delicious
71 recche of it but smal think but little of it
73 taryen delay prime 9 a.m. (g.)
74 no fruit nothing essential
75 firste first subject have my recours return
77 nobleye splendour
78 thinges compositions
79 deliciously delightfully
85 bord table
88 bisily eagerly waiten watch
91 Salueth greets
92 seten sat
94 contenaunce behaviour
96 fairye fairyland
97 amende excel
100 After according to
101 vice defect sylable syllable
102 for in order that
103 cheere expression
104 leere learn
105 sowne echo, imitate
107 as to commune entente as far as the general meaning is concerned
108 al that evere everything that
111 lige liege solempne festive
112 as he best kan and may to the best of his ability
114 heste command
116 o day naturel one 24-hour day
118 Wherso yow list wherever pleases you
120 wilneth wishes pace go
121 wem harm thurgh foul or fair over rough and smooth
122 flee fly
123 soore soar
124 everemoore all the time
125 ther yow leste where you want to be
127 turne again return writhing turning
128 The man who made it knew many contrivances
129 waited observed
131 seel seal bond ?legal document (n.)
133 a might power
135 regne kingdom
140 subtiltee treachery
141 hide be hidden
142 again this lusty someres tide at the approach of this fine summer
146 vertu power
147 hir list it it pleases her were wear
148 bere carry
149 fowel bird fleeth flies
150 stevene tongue
154 do boote heal
157 what man so ye smite whatever man you strike
158 kerve cut
161 hool healed of grace as a favour
162 platte flat side thilke the same
166 withouten glose plainly, without word-spinning
167 hold possession
169 doun … lighte dismounted
171 court courtyard stille silent
173 to mete yset seated at dinner
174 realliche royally yfet fetched
177 therfore for that purpose
178 bore carried
179 Solempnely ceremoniously ther where
181 remewed removed
182 yglewed glued
184 engin contrivance windas windlass polive pulley
185 kan nat the craft don’t know the art
188 voiden remove
189 prees crowd
190 gauren on stare at
194 horsly horse-like quik lively
195 gentil well-bred courser steed
197 amende improve on
198 In no degree in any way wende thought
199 everemoore always mooste greatest
200 goon move
201 It was a magic contrivance, as it seemed to the people
202 Diverse different demed thought
203 wittes opinions
204 been bees
205 And invented arguments according to their own fancies
206 Rehersynge repeating poetries poems
209 the Grekes hors Sinoun the horse of the Greek Sinon (n.)
211 gestes stories
212 everemoore continually
213 therinne inside
214 shapen hem plan
216 rowned whispered lowe softly
218 apparence illusion
219 jogelours conjurers
220 jangle chatter trete discuss
221 lewed ignorant
223 lewednesse ignorance
224 demen … to the badder ende adopt the worst interpretation
226 maister tour principal tower
229 composiciouns combinations
230 anglis angles (of reflection) sly reflexiouns skilful reflections
233 writen in hir lives wrote while they lived
234 queinte ingenious perspectives optical lenses
238 fille in speche of began talking about
239 queinte curious
240 dere harm
243 harding hardening, tempering
244 medicines transmuting agents
245 yharded hardened
246 algates at any rate
249 nevere non none of th
em
251 name of reputation for
252 drawen hem apart move away
254 fern-asshen ashes made by burning ferns (n.)
256 for because so fern for so long a time
257 cesseth ceases jangling chatter
258 soore earnestly
259 gossomer gossamer
260 wist known
261 demen express opinions devise talk
263 angle meridional see n.
264 yet still
269 chambre of parementz state room (hung with tapestries)
270 sownen play
272 lusty pleasure-loving Venus children those born under Venus (n.)
273 Fissh Pisces
276 straunge stranger fet brought
279 devise describe
280 his its
281 festlich convivial
284 unkouthe unusual contenaunces faces
285 dissimulinges dissimulations
286 aperceivinges perceptions
288 passe of pass over lustiheed gaiety
289 jolynesse gaiety
290 lete leave dresse turn their attention to
291 biddeth orders hie be brought quickly
293 usshers door-keepers
296 as reson was as was right wende go
297 soupen eat supper by day in daylight
298 rehercen describe array splendour
300 to for meeste greatest
303 route company
307 Theras where
308 tho then
310 vertu abilities
311 his governaunce how to control him
312 trippe frisk
316 moten must trille turn stant (= standeth) which stands
318 nempne name
320 abide remain
322 gin device
325 yswore sworn
326 ydrawe dragged bore carried
329 every maner wight everybody
331 clepen call
332 gise manner
334 namoore nothing more
335 of by
336 wit mind
338 doghty excellent
339 Repeireth returns
340 yborn carried
341 jewels precious artefacts, treasures leeve prized
342 noot (= ne woot) do not know
344 lete leave lust pleasure
345 festeyinge feasting
346 springe dawn
347 norice nurse
348 taken keep take note
350 galping yawning keste kissed
352 in his dominacioun dominant (n.)
355 gan drawe him went
356 bad urged
358 fumositee vapour (g.)
359 charge significance
360 prime large fully 9 o’clock (g.)
361 but it were except for
362 mesurable temperate
365 Hir liste nat she did not want appalled wan
366 Nor to look jaded next day
369 queinte curious
371 impressioun the emotional effect
373 gan up glide rose
374 maistresse governess
376 been gladly wise like to be wise
382 route band
385 rody ruddy
386 the Ram Aries (n.)
387 Noon hyer no higher
388 esily a pas in a leisurely way
389 lusty pleasant soote sweet
392 trench path cut through a wood
393 vapour mist glood rose
396 lighte be lightened
398 fowles birds
400 entente meaning
401 knotte nub (of story)
402 taried delayed lust pleasure
403 after herkned listened out for yoore for a long time
405 fulsomnesse abundance
406 thinketh me it seems to me
407 condescende proceed
409 for drye for dryness
411 fawkon falcon
412 gan to crye cried out
413 resowned of echoed with
416 endelong from top to bottom of
417 shrighte shrieked
418 beek beak prighte pricked, stabbed
420 outher either
421 nolde would not
423 on live alive
426 gentillesse elegance
427 yrekened valued
428 faukon peregrin peregrine falcon
429 fremde foreign
430 now and now from time to time
433 baar wore queinte ingenious
435 ledene language
438 routhe pity
440 pitously pityingly
441 heeld hir lappe abrood stretched out her skirt
442 twiste branch
444 waiten hir watch her
448 furial pine of helle hellish torment, like that of the Furies (see n. to Fkl 950)
452 a gentil herte wo distress to a noble heart
454 yow wreke take vengeance
456 encheson cause
457 chace harass
458 as dooth yourselven grace have pity on yourself
461 ferde with himself behaved toward itself
462 sleen slay
467 disese suffering
468 amende remedy
469 kinde nature
470 right inowe in plenty
472 pitously pitiably
474 lith aswowne lies in a swoon
476 swow swoon
477 gan breide awoke
480 Recognizing its likeness in bitter sufferings
481 alday constantly
482 by werk in practice auctoritee written testimony
483 kitheth gentillesse displays noble behaviour
486 benignitee kindness
488 the bet better
489 free gracious
490 be war take warning
491 As the lion learns from the dog’s punishment (n.)
492 conclusioun purpose
493 a leiser time a space opportunity
494 pace die
495 that oon the one
496 The other wept, as if she would turn to water
497 stille silent
498 sik sigh
499 Ther where
500 roche rock
501 eiled ailed
502 niste nat did not know
503 fle fly
504 tercelet male falcon
505 welle source
507 cheere behaviour
508 hewe appearance
509 bisy peine diligent endeavour
510 wend believed feine dissemble
511 So fast did he dye his colours (n.)
512 hit (= hideth) him hides
515–16 Performs so well his polite formalities and respectful attentions, and in appearance pays all the attentions
517 sownen into are consistent with
518 faire beauty
521 served his entente furthered his purpose
522 feend devil
523 wopen wept compleined lamented
525 nice foolish
526 corouned consummate
527 Forfered afraid
528 seuretee pledge
530 everemo always
531 privee and apert in private and in public
532 after according to
535 chaunge of exchange for
536 goon sithen many a day long ago
537 wight person
540 gise manner
541 fre freely
545 heigh solemn cheere demeanour
547 ravisshed enraptured
550 alderfirst first of all
551 writen wrote biforn earlier
553 by twenty thousand part multiplied twenty thousand times
554 Countrefete imitate sophimes sophistries
555 unbokele to unbuckle galoche shoe
556 approche be involved
559 Til to
560 kembde polished (lit. combed) at point devis to perfection
562 obeisaunce obedience
563 demed believed to be
564 him smerte (= smertede) caused him pain
565 Al were it never so lite however little it was
566 twiste squeeze
567 so ferforth so far is went went
570 as fer as reson fil as far as was reasonable
571 worship honour
572 lief dear levere dearer
573 namo anyone else
574 laste (= lastede) lasted
577 moste twinne had to depart
579 Wher me was wo whether I was unhappy
580 discripcioun description
581 o one
582 therby by it
583 for he ne mighte bileve because he could not remain
585 verraily truly
587 hewe facial colour
589 repeire return
591 wolde required
592 happeth so is the case
593 made vertu of necessitee bore cheerfully what was unavoidable
594 moste had to
595 mighte could
596 Seint John to borwe under the protection of St John (expression used in saying farewell)
599 it nedeth nat reherse there is no need to repeat
600 doon act
602 bihoveth hire she needs
604 moste forth his weye had to go on his way
605 ther him leste where it pleased him
606 it cam him to purpos he decided
608 repeiring to his kinde reverting to its nature
609 Gladeth himself rejoices
610 of propre kinde by their very nature newfangelnesse novelty
613 strawe cover the floor of
614 sugre sugar
615 right anon as as soon as uppe open (outwards)
616 sporne spurn, kick
617 wole will go
618 mete food
619 novelries novelties
620 gentilesse nobility
621 ferde behaved
622 gentil born of noble birth gay handsome
623 goodlich handsome free generous
624 flee fly
626 clene completely ago gone
627 his trouthe falsed broken his word
629 lorn lost
630 gan to crye cried out
631 eft again barm lap
634 niste did not know glade cheer up
636 plastres bandages
637 Theras in the place where
638 but anything other than delve dig
639 saves decoctions of herbs
642 She tries hard and does all she can
643 mewe cage
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