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Download or read book The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales with Notes by E F Willoughby written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...MS. pace=steps. Olde thinges.--This is the reading of most of the MSS., and I have adopted it instead of that of the MS. Harl. forby hem, which appears to give no clear sense. The reule of seynt Maure or of seint Beneyt, Bycause that it was old and somdel streyt, This ilke monk leet oldS thingSs pacS, 175 And helde after the newS world the space'. He ga.1 nat of that text a pulled hen, That seith, that hunters been noon holy men; Ne that a monk, whan he is reccheles Is likned to a fissche that is waterles; 180 This is to seyn, a monk out of his cloystre. But thilkd text held he not worth an oystre. And I seide his opinioun was good. What schulde he studie, and make himselven wood, Uppon a book in cloystre alway to powrS, 185 Or swynkS with his handes, and labourS, As Austyn byt? How schal the world be served? Lat Austyn have his swynk to him reserved. 177. Pulled.--Probably pylled=bald, scabby, or moulting (as if peeled). Text, an authoritative quotation; so the term scripture was applied to the writings of saints, &c., as well as to the Bible. 178. Noon--none. 179-181 Reccheles--reckless, careless. A.S. reccan, to think, regard. All the oldest MSS. read reccheles, though Mr. T. Wright, on the authority of one at Cambridge, proposes cloysterles. The "text," he observes, is taken from a Decretal of Gratian--" Sicut piscis sine aqua caret vita, ita sine monasterio monacl.as," though Chaucer more probably found it in the life of Louis IX. by le Sieur de Joinville, who says, ' Tho Scriptures (sic) do say that a monk cannot live out of his cloister without falling into deadly sins, any more than a fish can live out of water without dying." Had Chaucer, however, written cloysterles the explanation in l. 181 would...
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