#  Glosses for Quiz on The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale (Lines VIII.554-1481) 

 



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**Compare your translations with the glossed text:**

560 So swatte that it wonder was to see;  
 **swatte**: sweated  
  
565 He was of foom al flekked as a pye.  
 **flekked**: spotted **pye**: magpie  
  
635 It is al baudy and totore also.  
 **baudy**: dirty **totore**: tattered  
  
681 We mowen nat, although we hadden it sworn,  
 **although we hadden it sworn**: though we had sworn the contrary  
  
705 Syn he is goon, the foule feend hym quelle!  
 **quelle**: kill  
  
730 And of my swynk yet blered is myn ye.  
 **blered is myn ye**: my eye is bleary, I have been deluded  
  
739 If he continue, I holde his thrift ydo.  
 **thrift ydo**: prosperity, or welfare, done for  
  
751 Oure elvysshe craft, we semen wonder wise,   
 **elvysshe**: strange, mysterious  
  
752 Oure termes been so clergial and so queynte.  
 **clergial**: scholarly, learned **queynte**: complex  
  
874 I warne yow wel, it is to seken evere.  
 **to seken evere**: always to be sought; i.e., never to be found  
  
887 Hir savour is so rammyssh and so hoot  
 **rammyssh**: like a ram, strong (in odor)  
  
907 The pot tobreketh, and farewel, al is go!  
 **tobreketh**: shatters  
  
922 Somme seyde it was long on the fir makyng;  
 **long on**: owing to  
  
983 That he wol make hym doten anonright,  
 **doten**: behave foolishly  
  
1005 That giltlees were? By yow I seye the same,  
 **By**: concerning  
  
1030 This preest hym took a marc, and that as swithe,  
 **as swithe**: immediately  
  
1085 To tellen thyn unwit and thy folye,  
 **unwit**: lack of prudence  
  
1165 And understondeth that this false gyn  
 **gyn**: contrivance  
  
1265 An holwe stikke -- taak kep and be war! --  
 **holwe**: hollow  
  
1278 He stired the coles til relente gan  
 **relente**: soften, melt  
  
1341 This sotted preest, who was gladder than he?  
 **sotted**: besotted, foolish  
  
1385 Lo, thus byjaped and bigiled was he!  
 **byjaped**: tricked  
  
1402 Lo! swich a lucre is in this lusty game,  
 **lucre**: profit  
  
1412 Though ye prolle ay, ye shul it nevere fynde.  
 **prolle ay**: search or prowl forever  
  
1473 Ne wil nat that the philosophres nevene  
 **nevene**: name

Score 4 points for each correct answer; if you made an 80 or more, congratulations. If you scored 76 or less, go back and again read carefully through of The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale (VIII.554-1481), paying close attention to meaning and availing yourself of the page glosses, the explanatory notes, and the glossary.