#  Test your reading of the Reeve's Tale (Lines 4046-4324) 

 



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**Translate each of the bold-faced words or phrases in the following lines into clear modern English (it is best to write out your translation):**

4050 For al the sleighte in hir **philosophye**.  
  
4063 He **strepeth of** the brydel right anon.  
  
4071 This John goth out and **fynt** his hors away,  
  
4079 The wyf cam lepynge inward **with a ren**.  
  
4096 Yet kan a millere **make a clerkes berd**,  
  
4100 **Thise sely clerkes** rennen up and doun  
  
4119 Of **herberwe** and of **ese**, as for hir peny.  
  
4143 Right in the same chambre **by and by**.  
  
4145 Ther was no **roumer** **herberwe** in the place.  
  
4157 To rokken, and to yeve the child to **sowke**.  
  
4165 His wyf bar hym a **burdon**, a ful strong;  
  
4167 The wenche **rowteth** eek, **par compaignye**.  
  
4178 If that I may, yon wenche wil I **swyve**.  
  
4184 And we han had an **il fit** al this day;  
  
4190 "And gif that he out of his sleep **abreyde**,  
  
4200 And to hymself he **maketh routhe** and wo.  
  
4201 "Allas!" quod he, "this is a wikked **jape**;  
  
4208 I sal been **halde a daf**, a **cokenay**!  
  
4226 But faire and wel she **creep** in to the clerk,  
  
4235 For he had **swonken** al the longe nyght,  
  
4254 That makes me that I **ga nat aright**.  
  
4274 And he **hente hym** despitously agayn,  
  
4278 They walwe as doon two pigges in a **poke**;  
  
4307 That doun he gooth, and cride, "**Harrow**! I dye!"  
  
4321 A **gylour** shal hymself bigyled be.

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