#  Glosses for Quiz on The Friar's Prologue and Tale (Lines III.1264-1664) 

 



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

1667 That lyk an aspen leef he quook for ire.  
 **quook**: trembled   
  
1738 In every hous he gan to poure and prye,  
 **poure and prye**: pore (look intently) and peer  
  
1750 Or yif us of youre brawn, if ye have eny;  
 **brawn**: meat  
  
1760 He served hem with nyfles and with fables.  
 **nyfles**: trifles, silly stories **fables**: falsehoods  
  
1803 And hire embraceth in his armes narwe,  
 **narwe**: closely, tightly  
  
1814 I wolde prey yow that ye nat yow greve,  
 **yow greve**: get angry  
  
1821 To yelden Jhesu Crist his propre rente;  
 **yelden**: pay  
  
1845 My spirit hath his fostryng in the Bible.  
 **fostryng**: nourishment  
  
1872 Than burel folk, although they weren kynges.  
 **burel**: lay, secular  
  
1935 Who folweth Cristes gospel and his foore,  
 **foore**: tracks, path (i.e., example)  
  
1958 Youre inconstance is youre confusioun.  
 **confusioun**: ruin  
  
1964 A, yif that covent foure and twenty grotes!  
 **grotes**: groats, silver coins worth four pence  
  
1992 And, Thomas, yet eft-soones I charge thee,  
 **eft-soones**: again **charge**: command  
  
2003 As womman is, whan she hath caught an ire;  
 **caught an ire**: become angry  
  
2017 "Whilom ther was an irous potestat,  
 **potestat**: potentate  
  
2068 And with an arwe he slow the child right there.  
 **slow**: slew  
  
2090 Thou shalt me fynde as just as is a squyre.  
 **just**: true, exact **squyre**: carpenter's square  
  
2102 Hath been oure foode, our cloystre for to reyse.  
 **reyse**: build  
  
2159 And fette his felawe, ther as lay his stoor.  
 **fette**: fetched **stoor**: store (what he had collected)  
  
2185 "No maister, sire," quod he, "but servitour,  
 **servitour**: servant  
  
2207 What shold I seye? God lat hym nevere thee!  
 **lat hym nevere thee**: never allow him to prosper  
  
2226 As of the soun or savour of a fart?  
 **savour**: odor  
  
2242 Lat hym go honge hymself a devel weye!"  
 **a devel weye**: in the name of the Devil  
  
2254 Withouten wynd or perturbynge of air,  
 **perturbynge**: disturbance  
  
2291 And heigh wit made hym speken as he spak;  
 **wit**: intelligence

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 Summoner's Prologue and Tale, (III.1665-2294) paying close attention to meaning and availing yourself of the page glosses, the explanatory notes, and the glossary.