#  Glosses for Quiz on the Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale (Lines VI.267-968) 

 



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

345 To saffron with my predicacioun,  
 **saffron**: flavor with saffron, season **precidacioun**: sermon  
  
348 Ycrammed ful of cloutes and of bones --  
 **cloutes**: rags  
  
372 `Heere is a miteyn eek, that ye may se.  
 **miteyn**: mitten  
  
387 And I assoille him by the auctoritee  
 **assoille**: absolve  
  
414 In prechyng, so that he shal nat asterte  
 **asterte**: escape  
  
427 Thus kan I preche agayn that same vice  
 **agayn**: against  
  
464 Of yonge folk that haunteden folye,  
 **haunteden**: made a habit of  
  
474 Oure blissed Lordes body they totere --  
 **totere**: tear in pieces  
  
519 In erthe, in eir, in water, men to swynke  
 **swynke**: labor  
  
543 That may go thurgh the golet softe and swoote.  
 **golet**: gullet  
  
582 A capitayn sholde lyve in sobrenesse.  
 **sobrenesse**: sobriety  
  
591 Hasard is verray mooder of lesynges,  
 **Hasard**: dicing **lesynges**: lies  
  
632 And fals sweryng is yet moore reprevable.  
 **reprevable**: blameworthy  
  
638 But ydel sweryng is a cursednesse.  
 **ydel sweryng**: profanity  
  
670 "Sire," quod this boy, "it nedeth never-a-deel;  
 **It nedeth never-a-deel**: it is not at all necessary  
  
698 And ech of us bicomen otheres brother,  
 **brother**: sworn brother  
  
731 And seye `Leeve mooder, leet me in!  
 **Leeve**: dear  
  
738 For which ful pale and welked is my face.  
 **welked**: withered  
  
842 Ther is no man that lyveth under the trone  
 **trone**: throne  
  
855 And eek ther was a polcat in his hawe,  
 **polcat**: weasel **hawe**: yard  
  
863 Noght but the montance of a corn of whete,  
 **montance**: amount, size **corn**: grain  
  
874 For al the nyght he shoop hym for to swynke  
 **shoop hym**; intended  
  
913 I yow assoille, by myn heigh power,  
 **assoille**: absolve  
  
937 Looke which a seuretee is it to yow alle  
 **which a**: what a **seuretee**: safeguud  
  
947 Lat be," quod he, "it shal nat be, so theech!  
 **so theech** (*= so thee ich*), as I may prosper (I swear)

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 The Pardoner's Intro., Prologue, and Tale (Lines VI.267-968), paying close attention to meaning and availing yourself of the page glosses, the explanatory notes, and the glossary.