The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale From the Canterbury Tales;
The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Prestes Tale From the Canterbury Tales;
Chaucer Geoffrey
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271. // nere^it were not, it would not be. 1. 275. That never, even though it cost us a miserable death, a death by torture. So in Troilus, i. 674 : * That certein, for to dyen in the peyne.* 1. 276. Till that death shall part us two. Cp. the ingenious alteration in the Marriage Service, where the phrase 'till death us depart' was altered into ' do part' in 1661. L a Digitized by VjOOQIC 148 NOTES. 1. 278. eaSf case. It properly means event, hap. See 1. a 1 6. my leeve brother^ my dear brother.... 1. 283. cut of doute, without doubt, doubtless. 1. 289. counseilf advice. See 1. 303. 1. 293. / dar wel sayn^ I dare maintain. 1. 295. Thou schalt he. Chaucer occasionally uses shall in the sense of oY&e, so that the true sense oil shall is / owe (Lat. debeo) ; it expresses a strorg obligation. So here it is not so much the sign of a future tense as a separate verb, and the sense is * Thou art sure to be false sooner than I am." 1. 297. par amour^ with love, in the way of love. To love par amour is an old phrase for to love excessively.
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