Hood College Chaucerians

"Out of the develes ers ther gonne drive/ Twenty thousand freres on a route,/ and thurghout helle swarmeden aboute,/ and comen again as faste as they may gon/ and in his ers they crepten everychon;" (1694-1698) https://kaylasheely.com/tag/self-confidence/

And therfore may ye se that oure prayeres - I speke of us, we mendinantz, we freres - Be to the hye God moore acceptable Than youres, with youre festes at the table. Fro Paradise first, if I shal nat lie, Was man out chaced for his glotonye, And chaast was man in Paradis, certein. (1911-1917) (The Interview, 2014)

For saucefleem he was with eyen narwe. As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe, With scaled browes blake and piled berd; Of his visage children were aferd. Ther nas quicksilver, litarge, ne brimstoon, Boras, ceruce, ne oille of tartre noon, Ne ointment that wolde clense and bite,  That him mighte helpen of his whelkes white (625-632) Gif Courtesy of: The Fox and The Hound

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