History Of English Literature

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How many syllables is it?	Give the meaning of the underlined	From The Canterbury Tales: The General Epilogue
1 syllable	Sweet shower	Whan that April with his showres soote
1 syllable	penetrate	The droughte of March has perced to the roote,
1 syllable	such	And bathed every veine in swich licour,
2 syllables	make	Of which virtue engendred is the flowr;
1 syllable	also	Whan Zephyrus eek with his sweete breeth
1 syllable	grass land	Inspired has in every holt and heeth
1 syllable	shoots	The tender croppes, and the yonge sonne
1 syllable	bisect	Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne,
2 syllables	send	And smale fowles makenmelodye

P.10

2 syllables	repay	Somewhat to quite with the Knightes tale.”
2 syllables	drunkenness	The Millere, that for dronken was al pale,
3 syllables	effort	So that unnethe upon his hors he sat,
1 syllable	would	He nold avalen nether hood ne hat
3 syllables	courtesy	Ne abiden no man for his curteisye,
1 syllable	noisily	But in Pilates vois he ganto crye,
1 syllable	swear	And swoor, “By arms and by blood and bones,
2 syllables	at once	I can a noble tale for the nones,
2 syllables	knights	With which I wol now quite the Knightes tale.”
1 syllable	saw	Oure Hooste saugh that he was dronke of ale,
2 syllables	dear	And seyde, “Abyd, Robyn, my leeve brother,
2 syllables	tell	Som better man shal telle us first another,
3 syllables	seemly	Abyd, and lat us werken thriftily,”

P.14

2 syllables	spend	That sleepen al the night with open yeـــ
2 syllables	feelings	So priketh hem nature in hir coragesـــ
3 syllables	holy journey	Thanne longen falk to goon on pilgrimages,
2 syllable	flense	And palmeres for to seeken straunge strondes
1 syllable	type of plant	To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;
1 syllable	go country	And specially from every shires ende
1 syllable	go	Of Engelond to Canterbury they wende
2 syllables	glad	The holy blissful martyr for to seeke
1 syllable	sick	That hem has holpen whan that they were seke
2 syllables	happened	Bilfil that in that seson, on a day,
1 syllable	set	In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay
2 syllable	go	Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage

P. 15

2 syllables	Faithful	Canterbury with ful devout corage,
2 syllables	lodging	At nyght was come into that hostelrye
		From The Miller’s Tale: The Prologue
1	told	Whan that Knyght hadde thus his tale ytold,
2	company	In al the route nas ther yong ne old
1	story	That he ne saide it was a noble storye,
1	respectable	And worthy for to drawen to memorie;
3	everyone	And namely the gentils everichoon.
1	must	Oure Hoste lough and swoor, ‘‘So mote I goon,
1	certainly	This gooth aright: unbokeled is the male,
1	tell	Lat see now who shal telle another tale.
2	truely	For trewely the game is wel begonne.
1	tells	Now telleth ye, sire Monk, if that ye cone,

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