#  Glosses for Quiz on The Squire's Introduction and Tale (Lines V.1-708) 

 



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

18 He kepte his lay, to which that he was sworn;  
 **lay**: religious laws  
  
77 Whil that this kyng sit thus in his nobleye,  
 **nobleye**: noble state  
  
92 By ordre, as they seten in the halle,  
 **By ordre**: sequentially **seten**: sat  
  
129 He wayted many a constellacion  
 **constellacion**: configuration of the heavenly bodies  
  
154 She shal eek knowe, and whom it wol do boote,  
 **do boote**: cure  
  
206 Rehersynge of thise olde poetries,  
 **poetries**: poems  
  
219 As jogelours pleyen at thise feestes grete."  
 **jogelours**: conjurers  
  
229 Naturelly, by composiciouns  
 **composiciouns**: arrangements  
  
259 On ebbe, on flood, on gossomer, and on myst,  
 **gossamer**: spider web  
  
316 Ye mooten trille a pyn, stant in his ere,  
 **trille**: turn  
  
332 In swich a gyse as I shal to yow seyn  
 **gyse**: manner  
  
362 She was ful mesurable, as wommen be;  
 **mesurable**: moderate  
  
378 And seyde, "Madame, whider wil ye goon  
 **whider**: whither  
  
389 Arrayed after the lusty seson soote  
 **soote**: sweet-smelling, fragrant  
  
401 The knotte why that every tale is toold,  
 **knotte**: gist, main point  
  
416 Ran endelong the tree ther-as she stood.  
 **endelong**: down the length of  
  
429 Of fremde land; and everemoore, as she stood,  
 **fremde**: foreign  
  
493 Whil that I have a leyser and a space,  
 **leyser**: leisure, time **space**: opportunity  
  
516 And kepeth in semblaunt alle his observaunces  
 **semblaunt**: outward appearance  
  
555 Ne were worthy unbokelen his galoche,  
 **unbokelen his galoche**: unbuckle his sandal  
  
571 Kepynge the boundes of my worshipe evere.  
 **worshipe**: honor  
  
577 That Fortune wolde that he moste twynne  
 **twynne**: depart  
  
643 And by hire beddes heed she made a mewe  
 **mewe**: pen  
  
676 So feelyngly thou spekest, sire, I allow the!  
 **So feelyngly**: with such delicate understanding **allow**: praise  
  
698 A tale or two, or breken his biheste."  
 **breken his biheste**: break his promise

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 Squire's Introduction and Tale (V.1-708), paying close attention to meaning and availing yourself of the page glosses, the explanatory notes, and the glossary.