History Of English Literature
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 |
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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,” |
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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 |
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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, |